How to not automatically sort sub folder items above other items in that folder

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What I’m trying to do

I’m not sure if this is possible without manual sorting, but I want to make it easier to create “sub-notes” for myself by using folder notes, and whenever I want to make a sub-note I can change the current note into a folder and folder note. But when I make something a folder within a folder, it moves to the top of that folder in the sorting order.

The issue is that I still want my notes that aren’t in a folder at all to stay at the bottom of the sorting order. I only want sub-folders to stay in alphabetical order along with the notes inside of their main folder.

I’m still in the very early stages of learning how to javascript, so if this is something I can only do with a lot of coding knowledge or requires me to build my own code, please let me know and I’ll just postpone this project/add it to my list of things to figure out once I’m more savvy. Not trying to ask someone to take time building this for me.

Things I have tried

  1. At one point I did see a post (can’t find it anymore so maybe someone can help me) that had some sort of plugin for sorting everything alphabetically where the sorting order disregarded folders entirely, but like I said, I’m looking to see if I can do this with only sub folders.
  2. Manual sorting plugins, but I want to know if there is a way to do this automatically.

I have searched the forums but I’m just not seeing anything-- maybe someone can lead me in the right direction if they’ve seen something similar.

Thank you for your help in advance. :slight_smile:

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The plugin is “Custom File Explorer sorting”, and you should be able to set it to apply the rule to only folders you want. I don’t know the syntax well enough to give examples, but ideally you should be able to specify something like “all folders below a certain level” or “all folders within this folder”. If there isn’t a way to do that, you can apply the rule separately to each top level folder.