Being able to sort search results by a yaml key and/or date would remove the need for file name date prefixes. File name date prefixes OR key/value pairs are required to maintain file creation date persistence in the event system creation dates are lost in files.
Also date prefixes are ugly in search results, graph view, links with aliases, dataview queries etc. It takes a lot of effort to make them pretty.
I just wanted to search for a tag and sort by creation date.
The problem is, that the creation date of the file is not the same as the one from the yaml-frontmatter-metadata. the manually added yaml-creation-date was the correct one.
So what I got was “wrong” sortation.
but as far as I know it is also not possible to save searches with any sortation, right?
Resurrecting this feature request. I’m working on transferring old documents into Obsidian, and I’m able to set their created & modified dates in the YAML but it has no effect on the file explorer list – which means files are in the order I added them to Obsidian, rather than sorted according to their actual age.
And since there does not seem to be any easy way to change the creation date of the file in the filesystem, this problem is current unfixable.