Way to auto rename files depending on ther position in the folder?

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What I’m trying to do

I have established flat PARA system in my vault, so I have four folders with Projects, Areas, Resources and Archive. Within those folders I name files for ease of indexing with three digit code: for projects it’ll be from 100 to 199, Areas 200-299 and so on.

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I want files to be auto renamed if I e.g. insert a new project between 101 and 102, so that 102 becomes 103. If I want 103 to become 101 I simply move it and old 101 is now 102, old 102 becomes 103 you get it.

My motivation is not needing to manually rename the rest of files. Idea behind that renaming is moving related projects closer and change of priority, because naturally you will see first the projects at the beginning of the list.

Things I have tried

Searching docs, forum and the Internet for the solution

Is there any way to implement my idea?

If you need to clarify something or you have a better option I’m eager to listen to you!

Thanks for your attention,
Alex

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Rather than organizing this at the physical folder level, you instead could organize this in MOC’s, i.e., maps of content. There would be no need then to even number your notes. You list them in the desired order in the MOC, which is just another note linking to these.

You can quickly retrieve your MOC for navigation with a single keyword. In the MOC, you can easily move notes around, reorder… You can add visual punch to the structure which you will not have in the file manager.

If you still want some physical organization of files at the folder level, nothing prohibits you from moving e.g. “Areas” related notes to an “Areas” folder. This won’t in any way affect the MOC and how you interact with the notes.

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The File Order community plugin sounds like it might suit you. (Found by searching “number” in the plugin gallery.)