# Bases Kanban: manual card ordering within a column / drag and drop (persisted to a property) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Tags:** kanban, valuable, ui-ux, bases\ **Created:** [October 6, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092 "2026-10-06T03:28:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robg760](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/robg760/32/97001_2.png) [@robg760](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/robg760)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/1 "2026-10-06T03:28:48Z")
### Use case or problem I’d been eagerly awaiting 1.14 because I’d seen a **Kanban view for Bases** on the roadmap. I’ve been using the obsidian-kanban plugin for a while, and while it does the job well enough, it’s never felt snappy and the drag-and-drop on mobile leaves something to be desired. The project is also mid maintainer-handoff, so the idea of moving to something supported by the core team got me excited. I installed 1.14 today, reconfigured the frontmatter in a bunch of my notes to work with Bases, started dragging cards between columns (so smooth!) and fell in love. That is, until I hit the one thing I can’t live without: there’s no way to make vertical position meaningful. Within a column, order is whatever the view’s Sort setting says - a drop only changes the group property. I’m a pretty obsessive Kanban user (Trello, Jira, Notion, several others) and this is the first board I’ve seen without it. I drag across columns to change state, but to prioritize what might be 10–15 notes in a column, I drag up and down. That’s one of my most frequent uses of a Kanban board, and today it’s not possible. ### Proposed solution When a card is dropped within a column, write an order property to the note the same way the group property is written on a cross-column drop — effectively a “manual” sort option for the Kanban view that persists to a property (e.g. order, configurable). Cards without the property could fall back to the view’s existing Sort. A few community Bases-kanban plugins already do exactly this, so the data model clearly works; having it native, snappy, and on mobile is the dream. ### Current workaround Adding a numeric property (`kanban_order`: 10, 20, 30…) to each note and sorting the view by it. It works, but reprioritizing means editing numbers in the table view or the properties panel instead of dragging — enough friction that I’ve gone back to the community Kanban plugin for now. ### Related feature requests I searched and couldn’t find an existing request for in-column card ordering in Bases Kanban — happy to merge into one if I missed it. I’m a huge fan of Obsidian. No other tool comes close for the impact on my productivity, and I pay for Sync to support the team. I understand Obsidian isn’t open source, but if there’s any way I can help make this happen, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/2 "2026-10-06T12:04:21Z")
### Use case or problem The only way to sort pages is to pick an option of sorting(e. g. created time, property) ![image](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/1/0/10ae3a605291122069b63c635da820eaf946c8a6.jpeg) ### Proposed solution Make the sorting drag and drop sorting. In order to make the most prioritized tasks in the kanban on the top ---
**Author:** ![gberthiaume](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/gberthiaume/32/96633_2.png) [@gberthiaume](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/gberthiaume)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/3 "2026-10-06T17:10:14Z")
+1 IMO, what makes Kanban boards powerful are there ability to organize tasks quickly. Organizing high priority cards to the top is pretty common pattern. ---
**Author:** ![DRRO](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@DRRO](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/DRRO)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/4 "2026-10-06T18:09:57Z")
I support this topic and I wish someday to have it on mobile. Plus, I’m happy to see the #kanban tag, I hope it helps grouping the different FRs, as only one, asking for all features of the unmaintained [Kanban - Obsidian Plugin](https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/obsidian-kanban) , is not accepted. ---
**Author:** ![LukasDotPub](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@LukasDotPub](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/LukasDotPub)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/5 "2026-10-06T19:30:16Z")
I would love to have this as well! Love the addition of kanban in general. ---
**Author:** ![mm511](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@mm511](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/mm511)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/6 "2026-10-07T02:02:06Z")
I came here to post this exact feature request – I’ve been using the Kanban plugin for column-based chapters and sorting by scene number – if we could just set the sort order of a column to a property and have the same drag-and-drop dynamic adjustment, it’d be perfect! ---
**Author:** ![Lia\_the\_nun](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lia\_the\_nun](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Lia_the_nun)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/7 "2026-10-08T11:18:10Z")
Drag and drop ordering is absolutely necessary for me as well! I’m a visual artist and having to go in and edit a property just to reorder something will drive my train of thought off the rails completely. I didn’t realise this feature is missing because I’m still using the Kanban plugin due to the unintuitive way Bases handles [grouping](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-group-by-sorting-improvement-make-a-note-fall-into-multiple-groups/107097). Those two things are essential fixes IMO. ---
**Author:** ![dr.xu](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/dr.xu/32/97224_2.png) [@dr.xu](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/dr.xu)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/8 "2026-10-10T16:16:20Z")
Yes please I just bought Catalyst for native Kanban view and assumed this would be part of it. I get it’s still Beta but really hope manual card ordering is part of the public version. ---
**Author:** ![\_tttt](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/_/b5ac83/32.png) [@\_tttt](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/_tttt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/9 "2026-10-10T17:06:11Z")
I have an idea to add ‘top’ in the sort. Only these few top files support free sorting, which can greatly shorten the code. ---
**Author:** ![BambooBastille](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@BambooBastille](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/BambooBastille)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/10 "2026-10-17T09:57:55Z")
Huge +1. Agreed that it’s the first time I’ve seen a KANBAN implementation without the ability to vertically rearrange the cards within the same column. Pleeease implement 🥰 😘 🙏🏼 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_UMPV](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58f4c7/32.png) [@Richard\_UMPV](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Richard_UMPV)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/bases-kanban-manual-card-ordering-within-a-column-drag-and-drop-persisted-to-a-property/119092/11 "2026-11-04T11:28:15Z")
Came here to say I support that FR !