It’s planned for future releases but not in the near future (e.g. not for the next maintenance releases).
HA!!!
I’m deleting Scriviener right now!! 
(Well, currently I write in Word for Windows, inside a VM in my Macs, due IA writing recommendations, but never thought using DT as an outliner. Impressive.).
Big shoutouts to you guys who have the ingenuity to come up with this!!
Speaking of outliners, I still like Logseq and see it as a remarkably powerful tool. But Electron, being open-source and a minimal team of core developers are an unfortunate recipe for endless bugs and sluggishness. This thread has helped me make the final decision to part with Logseq.
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The tag filter remains one of my (many) favorite DT features.
The date filter has been very handy lately, too, but there’s one thing I wish for. Of course. I’m a user. There is perpetually just one other thing.
It would be nice if custom metadata date types appeared in the list of dates in the sidebar’s date filter. Extra nice if custom date types were included in “any date” filters.
I have custom start, end, and due fields to facilitate populating Aeon Timeline files via metadata summaries.
If I could filter on those it would be handy. Also nice if I could enter specific dates in the advanced search.
So true 
What are the steps after I download and open the zip folder? Thank you
Hello and Happy Samhain!
I have attached a new and improved version of the script which guesses the proper number of columns based on the number of items selected. So if 98 items are selected, it knows to draw seven as 07; if 101 items, as 007. Leading zeros are the transcendental condition for the possibility of sort preservation.
Reminder
The AppleScript script will add, delete, and even replace prepended numbers for any records you have selected in the frontmost window. Be sure to set the “after-number symbol”—called after_num_string in the script—properly. Most people prefer a period and a space, as in 03. This is a DT record. But if you have a period-plus-space in your record name, you’ll need to change this to prevent the script from eating unintended characters.
Instructions
- After unzipping, place the script inside DevonThinks’ Scripts folder. This is located in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.devon-technologies.think3/Menu/. You can open this folder easily by using the script icon on the left side of your Menu Bar (between Window and Help) and using Open Scripts Folder.
- Change the assigned shortcut if you like. I’ve assigned CMD-OPT-CTRL-O because all my shortcuts use the triple-mash, and ever since I was a toddler, “O” has meant “outline.”
- In DT, select any records you want to prepend numbers to.
- Run the script, either manually (using Menu Bar) or via shortcut.
- The order of your items will now be preserved or recoverable no matter where you might throw them.
I hope you find it useful. Here’s the new version:
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Fogieness is a state of mind. I’ve known teenagers who are fogies and 75-year-olds who are the opposite.
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Wow, thanks! I’d lost track of where I got the renumber script. I use it constantly, since I work on both an iMac and a Macbook.
Extremely handy.
I see the new renumber script displays a warning about the selection being on an external monitor.
Being a curious fellow, I moved my Devonthink window to my second monitor, as one will when warned not to.
As far as I can tell there wasn’t a problem.
What should I look out for?
I don’t know why, but when I try to operate on items selected on my secondary monitor, errors occur. I’ve been burned so many times that I decided to add the warning to prevent my future amnesiac self from destroying things. If it’s working for you, please feel free to delete that warning.
I’m glad you’re getting some use out of it.
I definitely get more than “some” use from your script. On days I don’t actually run it I benefit from the ordering it left behind.
Databases for business records are usually fine, sorted by alpha, using the Zettelkasten idea of a date prefix on document names.
Anything that is creative or touches on being an outline, I think I probably always use your script.
Many thanks!
Was this implemented? It appears not, but maybe I’m looking in the wrong place.
No, it’s still planned (like many other things).
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