# Add a popup to display the full path of the notebook

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [10 December 2023 18:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262 "2023-12-10T18:26:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlhg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@jlhg](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/jlhg)\
**Post date:** [10 December 2023 18:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262/1 "2023-12-10T18:26:18Z")

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I'd like to request a feature. Since notebook names in notes can be duplicated, it would be great if a popup displayed the full path when hovering over the button.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/5/c/5c2643f180555f055f713efaf3329f8bf76803e6.png)

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**Author:** ![RogerOyster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@RogerOyster](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/RogerOyster)\
**Post date:** [4 December 2024 12:41 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262/2 "2024-12-04T12:41:03Z")

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I 100% agree with the main idea of adding a full path to the notebook name, especially if the notebooks (folders) in the path are clickable and perform a Go To. In my case I have hundreds of "folder" notebooks that can be up to 4 deep, which makes it difficult to locate where a particular note is located.

As an example, I searched for Thunderbird, and got this:

In: Messaging

 ![Screenshot from 2024-12-04 20-10-52](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/a/1a5cc6d8b6e25cbb64ffa2edbf9f13d61996e486.png)

One of the others is  
In: Clients  
and also In: Linux

Maybe the path name could be a series of buttons, similar to the current blue "In: NotebookName", where each button would one of the notebooks in the path, and be clickable. But for the simplest implementation just the full path being clickable, would suffice.

I see that others have desired seeing full path names in various ways.

> [@Plug in for dynamically updating notebook path name to notebook body](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plug-in-for-dynamically-updating-notebook-path-name-to-notebook-body/24825):
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> Want to dynamically update the path name of the notebook to the body of the notebook to facilitate search. Is there any plug-in that can be implemented? thank you

> [@Search tool show full notebook path](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/search-tool-show-full-notebook-path/1904/13):
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**Author:** ![RogerOyster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@RogerOyster](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/RogerOyster)\
**Post date:** [4 December 2024 12:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262/3 "2024-12-04T12:43:06Z")

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Following on from my previous post, here is a snippet of the comprehensive notebook hierarchy that I have which makes locating a notebook from the search results problematic.

 ![Screenshot from 2024-12-04 20-24-57](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/9/c/9cdbe2beef2f23edf8d404f4678a0c37b5742e48.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [29 November 2025 12:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/add-a-popup-to-display-the-full-path-of-the-notebook/34262/4 "2025-11-29T12:43:28Z")

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Closed on 29 November 2025 12:43 UTC

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