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After bustling about Sort @ Notebooks[] for a while, I have surmised that notebook are listed in decreasing order this way:

  • Message
  • saved notebook by file date
  • unsaved notebook by creation date

Please, con you confirm or deny ?

By the way, this could be exploited to write on Message notebook in a simply manner:

writeOnMessageNotebook[arg_]:=
NotebookWrite[First @ Sort @ Notebooks[], arg]

I think that WindowTitle isn't involed in this topic because

(WindowTitle /. Options[#]) & /@ Notebooks[]

returns

{WindowTitle, "Sort - Wolfram Mathematica", WindowTitle}

even with saved notebooks opened.

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    $\begingroup$ Your proposed ordering seems to hold on my system too. I'll add that notebooks opened as documentation pages appear last in that ordering. By the way, you can write to the Messages window by referring to it with the undocumented MessagesNotebook[] (see this answer and the comments under it for a discussion of why that may not be desirable). $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 5:52
  • $\begingroup$ Thank for the reply ! I have just checked that MessagesNotebook[] works on both ver. 7.0.0 and 8.0.1. I'm going to test on ver. 10. $\endgroup$
    – mitochondrial
    Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 6:52

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