Sort all notes in order of last modified (similar to Keeps)

[Midgy]

In Google Keeps, the default homepage sorts all notes by last modified date (recent most first). I would like to have such a functionality in Obsidian too, primarily useful for mobile usage (I can’t remember file names at times so it takes too long to open up a very recent note where I closed the tab).

The first idea I had was to have a ‘Recent Notes.md’ file with a dataview table that lists all notes in my vault according to modified date, but I don’t know to achieve this. Any help?

If there are any other more intuitive ways to achieve this functionality, I’d appreciate that too. Though personally, I think the dataview technique allows the flexibility of having folder-specific recent notes listing as well.

[Naranya]

Vault Explorer is a quick and easy way to do this on desktop, including per folder, but doesn’t work on mobile (at least not on Android). It’s a new plug-in, so possibly mobile version is to follow.

[Denna]

There is a plugin for this: Recent Files

[Denna]

With DataView you can use this code:

LIST
FROM ""
SORT file.mtime DESC
LIMIT 10

You limit the number of results returned with `LIMIT’.

[Midgy]

Recent Files plugin seems to only show the notes that were modified after the plugin is installed. I think I’ll go with the dataview solution. Thanks!