diff --git a/src/components/note-list/noteListHooks.extra.test.tsx b/src/components/note-list/noteListHooks.extra.test.tsx
index 28912c33..d6270e4e 100644
--- a/src/components/note-list/noteListHooks.extra.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/note-list/noteListHooks.extra.test.tsx
@@ -217,6 +217,32 @@ describe('noteListHooks extra', () => {
     expect(result.current.sortPrefs.__list__).toEqual({ option: 'title', direction: 'asc' })
   })
 
+  it('uses shorthand type sort fields as custom properties', () => {
+    const typeDocument = makeEntry({
+      path: '/vault/types/memory.md',
+      filename: 'memory.md',
+      title: 'Memory',
+      isA: 'Type',
+      sort: 'date:desc',
+    })
+    const memoryEntry = makeEntry({
+      isA: 'Memory',
+      properties: { date: '2026-05-06' },
+    })
+
+    const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+      useNoteListSort({
+        entries: [typeDocument, memoryEntry],
+        selection: { kind: 'sectionGroup', type: 'Memory', label: 'Memory' },
+        modifiedPathSet: new Set<string>(),
+        modifiedSuffixes: [],
+      }),
+    )
+
+    expect(result.current.listSort).toBe('property:date')
+    expect(result.current.listDirection).toBe('desc')
+  })
+
   it('prefers selected view sort config and persists list sort changes back to the view definition', () => {
     const onUpdateViewDefinition = vi.fn()
     const view: ViewFile = {
diff --git a/src/utils/noteListHelpers.extra.test.ts b/src/utils/noteListHelpers.extra.test.ts
index 448667a8..0f398029 100644
--- a/src/utils/noteListHelpers.extra.test.ts
+++ b/src/utils/noteListHelpers.extra.test.ts
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ describe('noteListHelpers extra coverage', () => {
     const serialized = serializeSortConfig({ option: 'property:Priority', direction: 'desc' })
     expect(serialized).toBe('property:Priority:desc')
     expect(parseSortConfig(serialized)).toEqual({ option: 'property:Priority', direction: 'desc' })
+    expect(parseSortConfig('date:desc')).toEqual({ option: 'property:date', direction: 'desc' })
     expect(parseSortConfig('broken')).toBeNull()
     expect(parseSortConfig('title:sideways')).toBeNull()
 
diff --git a/src/utils/noteListHelpers.ts b/src/utils/noteListHelpers.ts
index edfaefc6..b38be037 100644
--- a/src/utils/noteListHelpers.ts
+++ b/src/utils/noteListHelpers.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ export interface SortConfig {
 }
 
 export const DEFAULT_SORT_OPTIONS: SortOption[] = ['modified', 'created', 'title', 'status']
+const BUILT_IN_SORT_OPTIONS = new Set<string>(DEFAULT_SORT_OPTIONS)
 
 export function getDefaultDirection(option: SortOption): SortDirection {
   if (option === 'modified' || option === 'created') return 'desc'
@@ -217,7 +218,12 @@ export function parseSortConfig(raw: string | null | undefined): SortConfig | nu
   if (lastColon <= 0) return null
   const dir = raw.slice(lastColon + 1)
   if (dir !== 'asc' && dir !== 'desc') return null
-  const option = raw.slice(0, lastColon) as SortOption
+  const optionName = raw.slice(0, lastColon)
+  const option = (
+    optionName.startsWith('property:') || BUILT_IN_SORT_OPTIONS.has(optionName)
+      ? optionName
+      : `property:${optionName}`
+  ) as SortOption
   return { option, direction: dir }
 }