Remember the workflow sorting order

Feature Requests
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Not sure if I have overlooked something but I couldn’t find any suggestion for this.

I think it would be nice to remember the sorting order of workflows. We have around 20 workflows at this stage and the workflow lists seems to be ordered by “updated” by default, meaning if some colleague updates a workflow it moves to the top next time you open it. So when not using the search field I almost always sort the workflows by name first (as this keeps the order somewhat predictable thanks to a consistent naming scheme).

As such I would love to see n8n storing the sorting order of workflows (and going forward maybe something like tags or a folder-like structure to organize larger numbers of workflows).

Organize your workspace with Folders
I think updated node is not important sort for default
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Yes totally agree. n8n needs a proper way to organize workflows. Here an existing feature request:

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Sweet, didn’t see that one but have now voted on it :slight_smile:

Thanks for the link!

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@MutedJam just wanted to say that we’re designing workflow organization functionality this week and your feedback is part of our research doc. Thanks for your insights!

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This is great to hear, thanks for sharing :slight_smile:

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I would like to bring this back up to the front of the line. :slight_smile:

I already have my flows and subflows numbered and z_[name] to sort them alphabetically, but I have to choose that every time. :frowning:

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Thank you for thinking about considering this feature request.

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Same for me. Every time I leave a workflow I have to select “Sort by name (A-Z)”.

Would be nice to set this as default.
@russellkg can you upvote this :smiley:

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+1 from me but the main deal breaker is organizing workflows in folders. Hope that come some day.

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+1 also from me. If you use a naming convention for your workflows, it is necessary to sort them by name by default. I agree that folders would greatly improve sorting and clarity over all processes and probably improve permission management where applicable, especially for power users.

The more you want to develop n8n for working in larger teams, the more you will need these functions.

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+1 vote to the list, thank you !

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Yes, that would be very helpful.

It would also be great, if the selected filters (tags and status) would be remembered by n8n.

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+1

It needs to remember the sort when I change it to sort by name > then refresh. It goes back to sorting by last updated. Just localstorage memory would be fine.

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I strongly agree with the latest comment: having the ability to open n8n directly in ‘Sort by name’ as default would make me very very very happy right away :slight_smile:

  • +1 vote for folders or default sorting
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+1 En effet lorsqu’on nomme les workflows pour les trier par ordre (AZ) ce serait cool de pouvoir garder le réglage en mémoire ou dans une zone de réglage par défaut général.

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+1 for this request, particuarly after the inclusion of folders with 1.85.

Having an interface where the folders default to being sorted by the last modified feels extremely counter-intuitive from a usability perspective.

Either defaulting to A-Z sort, or better yet simply remembering the last sort type would fix this.

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Could possibly implement Go High Level style of sorting with “Smart Lists”.

Basically you can sort however you want with multi filters like

  • has tag
  • doesn’t have tag
  • draft / published
  • and / or

Then you can save your filter as a quick selection.

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