What I’m trying to do
Make it so that the word “The” isn’t included in alphabetical order. Sort of like Steam does.
Things I have tried
Looked in settings and add-ons
If you want to stay core obsidian, you can try disabling show inline title in Settings > Appearance under Interface. This will let you have a different title than filename, you could omit “the” from the filename but still use it in your title in the note.
A community plugin that may be of use for you would be this one: Front Matter Title plugin.
I’m assuming you’re referring to the “Files” tab, but if you can have a more customized sort of you’re using bases by sorting by the following formula:
file.name.replace(/^the /i, '')