Sort order of notes in Tag/Note Explorer by modification time

[piojanu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In Zettelkasten, when you create lots and lots of atomic notes, it's very useful for me to see what are the recent notes I've worked with so I cat start from there. In programs like Obsidian.md you can control how the notes are sorted. I don't see this option in Foam.

Describe the solution you'd like

As a user, I expect to be able to change in settings sort order of notes in Tag/Note Explorer to "modification time" just as you can modify "explorer.sortOrder": "modified".

Describe alternatives you've considered

I don't see any alternative currently.

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[piojanu]

I'm happy to implement it myself with some help from your side i.e. where is the place to start? I didn't develop any VSCode extension to this date. I'm a research engineer working with Python, but I've studied CS, so I have some experience with JavaScript.

[riccardoferretti]

Hi @piojanu
the logic you are looking for is in folder-tree-provider.ts, which is used by notes-explorer.ts.
I am not sure it's going to be a trivial change, as we don't store in our model the last modified date, so a clean solution would require also changing the model itself (which will probably touch markdown-provider.ts datastore.ts and note.ts).