How to apply this to the entire vault?

[nsusmann]

Can someone help me figure out how to apply this to the entire vault? I am not concerned about folder contents at the moment. I want the vault folders to appear in this order:

Research
Writing Book
Brandeis
Personal
Course Planning
Published
Funding Applications
GNCP
Conferences
JobApps
Obsidian Settings
notes
// ...

I have the sorting-spec.md stored in Obsidian Settings

[SebastianMC]

Hi @nsusmann

in the first step copy the below snippet directly to a new empty sortspec note in the Obsidian Settings folder:

---
sorting-spec: |
  target-folder: /
  Research
  Writing Book
  Brandeis
  Personal
  Course Planning
  Published
  Funding Applications
  GNCP
  Conferences
  JobApps
  Obsidian Settings
  notes
---

After that if you enable the custom sorting (ribbon button or the command sort-on) the custom order should be applied.

Assuming the first step succeeds, you can rename the sortspec note to sorting-spec - I understood that is your preferred note name. Then open the settings of the custom sorting plugin and in the section Path or name of additional note(s) containing sorting specification enter sorting-spec (the name of the note)

You should be good to go at that point