[delichon]

Arbitrary sorting can be really useful for relatively short lists, like a todo, but seems to me to be a lot less useful for thousands of items. And most cases where I would want that, like grouped by topic, is a better use case for tags, or the topic can be included in the title and work with alphabetical sorting.

But good news, niche requirements can be satisfied on both platforms by writing an extension!

[lilerjee]

Sorting or queuing is a common occurrence in life and work. For example, sorting the exam scores of students in the same grade at a school. Sorting is useful for lists with a few items or a lot of items.

Arbitrary sorting is particularly useful for prioritizing tasks.

Tags are mainly used for identification or grouping, and are quite different from sorting; the two are distinct.

Given the universality of sorting or queuing in real life, I believe it should be a fundamental feature of note-taking software.