Can I have new pages sort to the top of the folder instead of the bottom?

[Richard Hurt]

When I create a new page it always places it at the bottom of the current folder.  This is usually not a problem but I've been doing a lot of "weekly meeting notes" type pages recently and I like to keep the most recent ones at the top.  Currently, I have to move the newly created page to the top of the folder. 

Is there a setting somewhere that causes new pages to be sorted to the top of a folder instead of the bottom?

[Jeroen Poismans]

Richard,

Not natively but for you use case specifically I would try this.

Go into the Space settings:

In the Content > Reorder section, you will see the folders displayed in the center panel. You will notice that for folders you can set the default sorting.

So, if you use a naming convention for your meeting notes like this:

• Meeting 2025-07-18
• Meeting 2025-07-20

Or

• 2025-07-18 Stakeholders
• 2025-08-01 Other meeting

You can actually manipulate the order a little bit :-).

Hope this helps!

[Thiago P _Atlassian Support_]

Hey there @Jeroen Poismans ,

Unfortunately the Sort button is not a "default sort" and will not persist, so it's a one-time operation and newly created contents will still be added to the bottom of the Page Tree.

There is an existing Suggestion to implement this:

• CONFCLOUD-65454 - Reorder pages alphabetically (permanently)

[Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_]

Hi @Richard Hurt,

Unfortunately there’s no setting to change that default behaviour — new child pages are always added to the bottom of the page tree. What most teams do in this case is periodically sort the pages manually by “creation date” using the Page Tree macro on an overview page, instead of relying on the sidebar order.

Not ideal, I know — but hope that helps a little!

—  Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty

[Thiago P _Atlassian Support_]

Expanding on @Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_ 's great suggestion - a similar alternative would be using the Child Items macro on a Parent page and add all Weekly Meeting Notes pages as children.

The macro allows for multiple sorting options such as 'Newest -> Oldest' as you want:

Hope this helps!  =]

[Richard Hurt]

Yes, this is what I was doing in the days before "folders".  However that only sorted the items on the Parent page and not actually in the directory itself.  :(