Courtesy of CawlinTeffid, here’s a pinned post (on Discord) with your current custom sorting options:
If you want to sort your Obsidian files/folders in ways the default file browser doesn’t offer, here are some options:
No plugins needed:
- Bookmarks (if you don’t
need to reorder huge numbers of items)- Add numbers to the beginning of filenames
Community plugins:
- Custom File Explorer Sorting (Alas, a change in Obsidian made it so you may have to reapply the sort when the app reloads.
(https://github.com/SebastianMC/obsidian-custom-sort/issues/193)- Manual Sorting (enables drag and drop reordering in file browser; as of 2025-03-07 it’s only a month old)
- FolderFile Splitter (3-pane view that supports pinning and drag-drop reordering; as of 2025-03-12 it’s only 2 weeks old)
- File Tree Alternative
- File Order (relies on numbered names but lets you renumber by drag-and-drop)
- Make.MD (but it’s a mega-plugin that makes a lot of other changes too)
Bartender (beta plugin not available in the plugin store) https://github.com/Mara-Li/obsidian-bartender (which is a maintained fork of the original https://github.com/nothingislost/obsidian-bartender)
Relevant feature requests:
There’s a request here with a few images of the Obsidian UI: