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Persistent sorting in Projects view

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Hi Figma team,

I'd love to see sorting preferences persist across sessions in the Projects view. Currently, every time I navigate into a project and return to the home screen, the sort order resets to default.

Our team numbers all projects (01, 02, 03…) to maintain a clear workflow overview. Having to manually re-apply alphabetical sorting every single time is a small but repetitive friction point that interrupts the flow.

It would be great if Figma could remember the last used sort order, ideally per user or workspace. This seems like a relatively simple improvement that would benefit many teams who rely on consistent project naming conventions.

If this is already possible and I'm missing it, I'd love to know how.

Thanks for considering this.

Best,

Justin Eleveld

Jeremy_Paul1Solution

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We absolutely need this! In Home and folder views, the “Sort by” dropdown in the top right hand corner offers to sort alphabetically, by date created or last modified. However the settings reset very frequently and it’s not persistant. It must be a bug, because it doesn’t feel intentional. Should be a user preference (not team). Seems indeed like a small fix with a great effect! Thanks for taking action on this Figma! Please take action on this 🥺❤️

Jeremy_Paul1Solution

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We absolutely need this! In Home and folder views, the “Sort by” dropdown in the top right hand corner offers to sort alphabetically, by date created or last modified. However the settings reset very frequently and it’s not persistant. It must be a bug, because it doesn’t feel intentional. Should be a user preference (not team). Seems indeed like a small fix with a great effect! Thanks for taking action on this Figma! Please take action on this 🥺❤️

syedsami

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This is such a annoying problem. I am having to jump between files constantly and it is so annoying to reset everytime.

Iain M Norman

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This has become more annoying for me since I’ve setup some nested folders like

01 - Discovery
02 - Design

etc.

I understand there was a lot of pushback on it being persistent, I’d be happy if we could make the persistence sort type a per-folder inheritable property? So it can be changed but persists to your choice in the same way it now persists to latest.

ZGM

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Sweet jeebus yes, this seems like a bug when the setting constantly resets!

At the very least it should be persisted for an individual user’s session —if other folks who are logging into their Figma account in the team want to constantly play hunt-around-for-the-file/folder then more power to ‘em, but for those who want a persistent alphabetical sort why are you fighting them?

Iain M Norman

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Sweet jeebus yes, this seems like a bug

Absolutely that’s the feeling! Probably cos it’s hidden behaviour there’s nothing that indicates it’s not going to stick.

Margot_Gabel

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Maybe add your voices to this thread where other folks are voicing their opinion about this UX non-sense 😅. All our projects are numerically named (01 Strategy, 02 Presentations, etc,) so the Last modified default option is just messing things up for everyone, everyday…

Using Figma since 2018.

AmbreDCT

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oh yes, please, its absolutely necessary for my mental hearth to restore the persistent sort by

Carioca_Andre

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Here Figma.. just give this to your devs:

Andreas_Schrader

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While I think that this is a horrible design and will not meet Figma’s design guidelines, adding a flag could be a good compromise.

It will added “unnecessary” clicks, but I am willing to do it, in order to get the feature back.

One last thought though: Imagine macOS Finder or Windows Explorer that forgets which way you display and sort items in a folder…

Who would want that?

Sorry, I just had to say this.

Matthew_Cassar

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Hey Figma, what’s the status on this very-easily to implement feature? It’s causing a tremendous amount of friction!

Andrew_Duna

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I understand that Figma intentionally removed persistent sorting after some feedback, but it feels like you just went from frustrating one set of users to frustrating another set of users.

I’m managing our Figma team space, and we set up our nested folders to rely on numerical sorting as a way to make things easy to find. We’re working on projects all the time, so having the space default to “last modified” and change sort order every hour makes it really challenging for people to find things in the familiar locations they expect them to be.

At the least, allow it to be a toggle property to remember the sort order instead of assuming that all users want it to default to last modified and reset every single time.

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