There are a few topics on this but they're all closed (with no resolution that I can find) but maybe this feature exists somewhere and I'm missing it..
The fact that I can't always see the folder displayed (in blue - which takes up a lot or real-estate when it is displayed by the way), makes it really annoying when I want to create a new note since I see no indication of what folder I am in, so it really disrupts my workflow.
I have lots of notebooks/folders and I also split that panel with favorites so there isn't always an indication of what notebook I'm in. Yes, I can first do a search, but that's a waste of time just to see where I am. Other UIs don't work that way, you typically have a breadcrumb trail so you know where you are.
If a plugin can do it, I'll start working on it, but I really think this should be a default editor option somewhere. (Right under the note title should be a small font breadcrumb trail - you already use that location for the big blue notebooks button which will show up and will show what notebook you are in if, for instance, you start on 'all notes' and then start clicking your notes. However, as soon as you start with a folder and then start viewing notes, there is no indication of what notebook you are in (if you can't fully see the notebook list indicator.)
I agree it would be useful, if also extended as an additional way to move a note to a Notebook when clicked on (especially say if the note is open in its own dedicated window). I covered some of it in my conversion from Evernote journal in the forum here, but to summarize having this button be available:
but also having it open a dialogue to select which Notebook it should be in, would be fantastic.
Like this UX from Evernote v5:
I have created PR Desktop: Add reveal in notebook option by mrjo118 · Pull Request #16354 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub to help with this. Note that you could configure a keyboard shortcut to execute the new reveal in notebook command, if you wanted to.
The fact that I can't always see the folder displayed (in blue - which takes up a lot or real-estate when it is displayed by the way), makes it really annoying when I want to create a new note since I see no indication of what folder I am in, so it really disrupts my workflow.
I've made it so the reveal in notebook option in my PR will scroll the notebook into view, even if the notebook is already selected. When the blue pill is showing and you don't want it to take up the space, you can already click it directly, which also acts as a reveal in notebook option in it's own right.
Regarding moving a note to a different notebook, with this change to allow revealing the note in the notebook, you could use that and then right click the revealed note in the note list and use the move to notebook option there.
I built a plugin for exactly this: Whereabouts. It shows the current notebook right under the note title, on every note, not only in search results.
- Last notebook name or the full path ("Lab / Joplin")
- Four placements: own row below the title, that row with the title-bar icons moved down so the title gets the full width, inline right of the title, or first item of the editor toolbar
- Left-click selects the notebook and keeps the note open, double-click reveals it in the note list, right-click opens the move-to-notebook picker (@skullthug, that is your case)
- Optionally hides Joplin's own "In: …" pill so nothing is shown twice
Desktop only, and it needs the Markdown editor mounted (works in split and viewer-only layouts, not in the Rich Text editor), because the title bar is not reachable through the official plugin API. Tested on 3.7.14.
Published to npm today, so it should appear in the plugin list within a day. Until then, the .jpl is on the releases page: GitHub - pmslava/joplin-plugin-whereabouts: Joplin plugin: always shows the current notebook next to the note title; click to filter, double-click to reveal, right-click to move · GitHub
@rickcr, this may save you writing one.
Excellent plugin, thanks!! It would be really nice if it showed up with the Rich Text editor too, maybe @laurent can fix the API for that?
