Alphabetical Sort. Add a Projects sidebar option to sort by name

+1 for this.

My main use case is having many projects for the same company/client. Sorting by created or updated is useful for recent work, but it makes it hard to scan the sidebar when I want all projects for one company grouped together.

An explicit alphabetical/name sort for Projects would make the sidebar much easier to navigate once there are many projects.

+1 from a Windows Codex App + mobile Remote workflow.

I keep many local project roots under a common directory (C:\gvv\AI\...). Once the list grows, the current persisted/manual order is hard to scan, especially in the mobile Remote project picker where I want to jump to a project by name.

A built-in alphabetical sort would be much better than editing local state (.codex-global-state.json / project-order) by hand.

What would help:

• Sort by visible project display name / label, not only raw path basename.
• Keep pinned projects behavior explicit, e.g. pinned first, then A-Z.
• Apply consistently in the desktop sidebar and mobile Remote.
• Persist the selected sort mode so newly added projects do not break the ordering.

Right now my "workaround" for this is pin every project and then drag them around. It's a manual process, but works well enough. I have the projects section usually set to chronological. The split though is still odd. I'd prefer to have both chrono + projects sorted by name and not have to pin them all.

Small update: since the latest update, projects can be sorted manually now, and that fully solves my use case for the moment. I’m absolutely happy with that. Thanks!

I'd like an explicit alphabetical/name sort for both the Projects list and the Chats list in the Codex desktop sidebar.

My projects and chats are currently ordered by recent activity/last use, but I usually know the visible project or chat title—not when it was last used. Once there are many entries, this makes navigation unnecessarily slow.

Requested behavior:

• Sort by the visible project name and chat title, A–Z.
• Keep pinned items at the top, then sort the remaining items A–Z.
• Persist the selected sort mode and apply it consistently to projects and chats.
• Sort by the displayed name/title, not by a filesystem path or internal ID.

Manual drag ordering is useful, but it does not solve the problem when the list changes or when there are many chats.

A concrete workflow where alphabetical sorting would add substantial value:

I use the sidebar as a two-level navigation system:

• active tasks are pinned;
• inactive projects stay collapsed;
• when starting new work, I navigate to the project whose visible name I already know.

With dozens of long-lived projects, Last updated is a poor locator: recency is already represented by the pinned/attention workflow, while the project I want may not have been touched recently. Manual order can approximate alphabetical order, but it requires continual maintenance whenever projects are added or renamed. The cost grows with the number of projects.

An automatic Name (A–Z) mode would provide a stable, predictable index that maintains itself. This becomes especially useful when project names share meaningful prefixes and the sidebar is intentionally kept collapsed to avoid scrolling through every project's tasks.

The same option would also be valuable for the Pinned section. If pinned task titles begin with their project name, alphabetical sorting groups active work naturally and makes it much faster to locate a known task. Priority and Last updated serve different purposes and do not provide that deterministic navigation.

Requested behavior:

• offer Name (A–Z) independently for Projects and Pinned;
• sort by the visible display name/title using locale-aware comparison;
• persist the selected mode and place newly added or renamed items automatically;
• preserve collapsed project state while sorting.

This is less about cosmetic ordering than about making the sidebar usable as a scalable project launcher.