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The order of your document follows the order of your files. You control it in one of three ways.

How Obsitex decides the order

Within each folder, files and sub-folders are placed by the first of these that applies:

1. Flexplorer order (recommended) — the drag-and-drop order you set in Obsidian.
2. Number prefixes — names like 01 , 02 sorted naturally.
3. Alphabetical fallback — if there is no Flexplorer data at all, the whole vault is ordered A→Z.

Option A — Flexplorer (drag & drop)

Flexplorer is an Obsidian plugin that lets you drag files and folders into any order in the file explorer; Obsitex reads exactly that order. It is the recommended way because you can reorder freely without renaming anything.

Option B — number prefixes

Without Flexplorer, prefix your file and folder names with numbers — 01 Introduction, 02 Method, … They sort naturally (so 10 comes after 9, not after 1). This works for files and folders alike. Because headings come from # lines and not from file names, the number prefixes never appear in the PDF.

Fallback — alphabetical order

If Flexplorer's data is missing or unreadable, Obsitex orders the whole vault alphabetically (A→Z) and shows a warning. In this mode nothing is hidden.

Hiding a file from the document

• In Flexplorer, mark a file or folder as hidden — it is then left out of the document (the same effect as the skip property).
• Or use the skip property on the note — see Comments & excluding content.

Tips & pitfalls

• Files and sub-folders share one order list, so a folder can sit between two files.
• Moving a folder in Obsidian just changes its path — there is no separate saved position, so the move takes effect on the next conversion.