Numerical Name Note Sorting Behavior Changed in Recent Versions

[Dhruv Solanki 1]

Version: 10.100.3 on Windows 11
 

Issue:

1. I have 20 Notes in a notebook. Each note name starts with 1,2,3,...,20. For example: 1 ABC, 2 PQR,...,20 XYZ etc.
2. Previous correct sort order by Name: 1 ABC, 2 PQR, 3 JKL, etc.
3. Now incorrect sort order by Name: 1 ABC, 10 EFG, 11 MNO, etc.

TLDR: Sort by Name should be 1,2,3,... and not 1, 10, 11,...2, 20, 3....

 

 

 

Edited August 10 by Dhruv Solanki
Edited: Screenshot

[AlbertR 710]

We had a similar discussion before some days: Messed up note title sort on the latest update?

You seem to use the Web-Client on Win11. Try to install and use the Win-App (Download Evernote). It sorts like you(we all) like it 😉

 

[Mike P 2,982]

This is hardly just an EN issue. Expecting any app to order things 1, 2, 3,..., 10, 11 relies on the app knowing they are numbers - in this case they are being treated as text as titles are clearly text. The fail safe method is always to use 01 rather than just 1. This is a rule that has saved me so many times in so many different apps!

Remember, differences in the behaviour of the web app might just be different version numbers.

[AlbertR 710]

FYI: I've opened a support ticket. See 074 - Sort Notes by Title identical on all clients (numerical with special order of non-alpha characters) (Ticket #3962362)

 

[gazumped 12,076]

Easier and more reliable to preface note titles with ISO dates - yymmdd - or use leading zeros - 001, 002 etc.  (I use a text expander to generate date and time from a keystroke)

If Evernote add a number field to titles it'll just complicate and slow down note creation.

[Piotas 128]

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

Easier and more reliable to preface note titles with ISO dates - yymmdd - or use leading zeros - 001, 002 etc.  (I use a text expander to generate date and time from a keystroke)

If Evernote add a number field to titles it'll just complicate and slow down note creation.

I relied on using _ (underscore) at the beginning of folder for forcing some folders to appear FIRST in a specific notebooks, before numbers

recent change to EN sorting forced me to change naming scheme as _ (underscore) no longer appears as first char sorted

does it impact a lot? not, it is just irritating for note system that worked for over decade

[goratnik 1]

TBH for me this sounds like they ast least once fixed an annoying and quite common issue with indeterministic sorting, because "1 ABC, 10 EFG, 11 MNO" is the correct version.

[gazumped 12,076]

2 hours ago, goratnik said:

this sounds like they ast least once fixed an annoying and quite common issue with indeterministic sorting

...And then they rewrote the process in a different code base...