Hi all - I've been excitedly waiting to share my first Obsidian plugin more widely!

Pairwise Glicko Ranking: Easily sort notes by any subjective criteria - Rank cohorts of notes in your vault by pairwise comparisons using the Glicko rating system.

I originally made this because I have a Base of photos I've taken and wanted to sort them by quality, showing the best photos first. But that's a subjective sorting system - a computer can't do it for me.

Rating something on an arbitrary five-star scale is hard - what happens when you find something better? Do you have to readjust your old ratings?

Pairwise comparisons avoid the ambiguity of absolute ratings and create a dynamic ranking that adjusts as you add more comparisons. Just ask yourself "which of these two notes wins?" and the rest is calculated for you.

Ideas

• Which book or movie is really your favourite? Rank your Books#Read or Movies#Watched Base.
• Which project ideas are most worth pursuing? Rank your #idea tag.
• Which purchase is the highest priority for you right now? Rank your #to-buy tag.
• Which experiences, restaurants, hikes, or travel destinations should you explore next? Rank your Places Base.
• Which research papers are most relevant to your work? Rank a sources folder.
• Which recipes should become your go-to staples? Rank your Recipes Base.
• Which people should you cut from your life? Rank your People Base. Ooh, spicy.

How it works

• Pick a cohort of notes to rank (vault, folder, tags, or Bases)
• The plugin opens two notes side-by-side and you choose a winner
• It can optionally write stats like Rank, Rating, Matches, Wins, and Uncertainty to frontmatter
• Your Bases can then sort or filter by those properties, so you can rank notes by subjective criteria without having to decide what star rating a note "deserves"

Install from Community Plugins at https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/pairwise-glicko-ranking

GitHub: https://github.com/WilliamsJack/pairwise-glicko-ranking

I'd love any feedback you have - particularly what kinds of notes you end up ranking, and if it helped you discover anything about your preferences.