diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e029641..b1d4333 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Take full control of the order of your notes and folders: - support for imposing inheritance of order specifications with flexible exclusion and overriding logic --- -## Basic scenario: set the custom sorting order for a specific folder +## Basic scenario 1: set the custom sorting order for a specific folder Create a new note named `sortspec` in the folder for which you want to configure the sorting @@ -66,6 +66,34 @@ An illustrative image which shows the reverse alphabetical order applied to the > - indentation matters in YAML -> the two leading spaces in ` order-desc: a-z` are intentional and required > - this common example only touches the surface of the rich capabilities of this custom sorting plugin. For more details go to [advanced version of README.md](./advanced-README.md) +--- +## Basic scenario 2: explicitly list folders and files in the order which you want + +This comes from the suggestion by [TheOneLight](https://github.com/TheOneLight) in [this discussion](https://github.com/SebastianMC/obsidian-custom-sort/discussions/95#discussioncomment-7048584) + +Take the instructions from the **[Basic scenario 1](https://github.com/SebastianMC/obsidian-custom-sort#basic-scenario-set-the-custom-sorting-order-for-a-specific-folder)** above and replace the YAML content with: + +```yaml +--- +sorting-spec: | + My first folder name + My second folder name + My first file name + My second file name + // ... and continue so in the desired order +--- +``` + +This will enforce the order as you list inside the YAML + +--- +## Editing multi-line properties in the new YAML properties editor (Obsidian 1.4 and newer) + +The newly introduced YAML properties editor (Obsidian 1.4 and newer) can make editing the multi-line text properties tricky and confusing. +There are short videos here [How to create or edit a multi‐valued property in Obsidian?](https://github.com/SebastianMC/obsidian-custom-sort/wiki/How-to-create-or-edit-a-multi%E2%80%90valued-property-in-Obsidian%3F) which could be helpful: +- how to edit the multi-line text properties in Obsidian properties editor (`shift+enter` does the magic here) +- how to edit the multi-line text properties in Obsidian `source view mode` (the classic way, as you did prior to Obsidian 1.4) + --- ## Basic automatic sorting methods