It's not like this feature hasn't been requested a zillion times in the forums. It has to be the most basic of all features in a note-taking app, right?
What is taking the Evernote team so long to respond to a simple, basic request for years?
Sort order based on date created, date updated, or title heralds back to the days of WordStar, DOS, etc... Simple drag and drop of notes in a notebook in all OS's needs to happen, or keep on losing users.