Bases is not sorted correctly for checkbox property

[hahanbyul]

Steps to reproduce

Clicking column title on the base
Or
Adding sort ascending or descending condition

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

the ascending and descending order should be different
false → true (ascending)
true → false (descending)

Actual result

the sorting is identical

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.10
Installer version: v1.8.3
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:54:25 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 24.5.0
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Additional information

[WhiteNoise]

works for me

[callumhackett]

I had the same problem as OP. The issue is that the sorting only works as expected for checkbox properties which are explicitly marked true or false. Sorting does not apply to notes where the checkbox property is absent or empty.

Since the documentation describes empty checkbox properties as behaving as false, I expected them to be sorted as false.

[WhiteNoise]

There is in fact a third state “indeterminate”. We will update the docs soon.