# Any suggestions on what plugins could be created?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [18 June 2020 22:32 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479 "2020-06-18T22:32:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![zen-quo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/zen-quo/32/4225_2.png) [@zen-quo](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/zen-quo)\
**Post date:** [2 February 2021 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/121 "2021-02-02T12:14:10Z")

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an emoji plugin would be really cool. like the one on here. if you type `:sax` it suggests 🎷 in a little window.

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**Author:** ![ambrt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/ambrt/32/4428_2.png) [@ambrt](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/ambrt)\
**Post date:** [2 February 2021 14:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/122 "2021-02-02T14:26:23Z")

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> [@kartoo](#):
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> Thanks. Unfortunately it does not fully remove the text from the original note and creates a link to the new note in the original. I can see this being an good use situtation, wishing to see an option to fully remove the text.

Hi @kartoo This can be implemented as an on/off option.  
It will be done in next version.

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**Author:** ![jb261](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/jb261/32/7324_2.png) [@jb261](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/jb261)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 00:56 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/123 "2021-02-09T00:56:42Z")

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How about a redline plugin? By redline, I'm referring to marking out changes between two versions of a document (this is a feature in most word processing apps, including MS Word). The really useful applicability for a syncing note app is dealing with conflicting versions of a note. I just went through this in the way I usually do - putting the two versions on of the note in side-by-side windows and scrolling through and seeing what is different. This would be so much easier if one of the versions was redlined.

Seems like this might be possible in a plugin? If so, it would be useful to be able to specify which version should be redlined.

I assume this feature would have broad applicability, unless you all have some much more efficient way of dealing with conflicting versions of notes that I haven't figured out yet. Of course I could copy/paste the notes into MS Word and redline in Word, but seems an in-app solution for what is a common problem in syncing note apps would make sense.

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 02:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/124 "2021-02-09T02:47:14Z")

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The markdown editor component that Joplin uses supports diff view, so a very basic version of this plugin would likely be fairly simple. But I don't know the actual amount of work needed to make it smooth.

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**Author:** ![ajay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/ajay/32/6551_2.png) [@ajay](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/ajay)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 07:59 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/125 "2021-02-09T07:59:37Z")

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I've been going through this thread for curiosity, but the more "feature requests" I see the more it becomes clear to me that some demarcation is needed between what is a typical app feature (for further development) and what is a typical target for a future plug-in.

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**Author:** ![dpoulton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/dpoulton/32/29723_2.png) [@dpoulton](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpoulton)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 11:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/126 "2021-02-09T11:40:37Z")

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... possibly also considering whether a plugin has become so frequently used that it should be "promoted" to a core feature.

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**Author:** ![IanHinton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@IanHinton](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/IanHinton)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 14:00 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/127 "2021-02-09T14:00:05Z")

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As a long-time user of Evernote, and recently an angry and heavily disappointed one, I've been looking around for some time for an alternative to Evernote, and it clearly seems to be Joplin. The only feature I'm sorely missing in Joplin is the "note list" option that existed in older versions of Evernote (I downgraded to a version prior to the notorious vn.10, and turned off the "update" option). The "note list" view is a powerful view that displays a compact list (one line per note), and also lets you sort on different columns, e.g. date created, last updated, size, folder location, reminder time, etc... You can also personalise which columns should appear in that view. This view is tremendously useful for when you are cleaning up and/or reorganising notes/folders/tags.

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**Author:** ![jasonmaskell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/jasonmaskell/32/6704_2.png) [@jasonmaskell](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/jasonmaskell)\
**Post date:** [11 February 2021 08:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/128 "2021-02-11T08:47:16Z")

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Is this different to the Joplin Markdown Calculations Table plugin? [https://github.com/oswida/joplin-markdown-calc](https://github.com/oswida/joplin-markdown-calc)

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**Author:** ![joplinuser7](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/joplinuser7/32/6970_2.png) [@joplinuser7](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/joplinuser7)\
**Post date:** [15 February 2021 04:31 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/129 "2021-02-15T04:31:08Z")

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I'd like plugin that implements the following: each Joplin note is actually saved to a corresponding complete ".txt" file.

E.g., if I have a Joplin note called "Chemistry notes". And assume I sync to Dropbox to backup. Then, if I opened up Dropbox, and looked in the correct folder, there should be a file called "Chemistry notes.txt" in there. And this text file should contain my entire Joplin note called "Chemistry notes".

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**Author:** ![forban](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@forban](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/forban)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2021 07:12 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/130 "2021-02-16T07:12:11Z")

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I think adding a note display as a mind map would be a useful feature. There is a good converter implementation: [https://markmap.js.org](https://markmap.js.org); I think it wouldn't be difficult to create an add-on for that.

I would do it myself, but unfortunately I lack resources at the moment.

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**Author:** ![mzguy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/mzguy/32/5520_2.png) [@mzguy](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/mzguy)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2021 16:51 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/131 "2021-02-16T16:51:31Z")

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A plugin to get to a note by Note ID. I'm sure there are other use cases for a plugin like this, but my main use case would be to facilitate integration of Joplin into workflows involving other apps, as described more thoroughly here:

> [@Are URL links on the roadmap?](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/are-url-links-on-the-roadmap/599/36):
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> I paste Joplin links into other apps all the time, in hopes someday I'll be able to honor them and link directly into Joplin notes, or "convert" them into links that can do so. Does anyone else do that? If not, how else to integrate other apps (such as to-do apps) and refer to Joplin notes? Until this feature is implemented (or never is), a workaround would be useful. Joplin links currently display a title and embed a Note ID. Right now, I simply search for the title manually via cut and paste…

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2021 17:07 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/132 "2021-02-16T17:07:54Z")

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> [@forban](#):
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> mind map

> [@New Plugin: Note Link Graph UI](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-plugin-note-link-graph-ui/14445):
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> Hey all, A few days ago I was tempted to download Obsidian to get the graph UI they offer but I couldn't make myself move off Free Software like Joplin. So I'd like to share the early version of a plugin I'm working on to bring a graph UI to Joplin! I know many other people are interested in the Zettelkasten system or want to visual links in their second brain and I'm hoping you all can help me improve this plugin to give Joplin full support for these systems. Help wanted: Check out the is…

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**Author:** ![forban](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@forban](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/forban)\
**Post date:** [17 February 2021 07:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/133 "2021-02-17T07:04:31Z")

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Yes, this is good plug-in but it is not the same. Graph UI displays links between notes, whereas it would be nice to display a single note as a mind map, as is done in the markmap. This would be very useful for both structured information and nested to-do lists. Just look at an example: [Try Markmap](https://markmap.js.org/repl/).

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**Author:** ![philip-n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/philip-n/32/4619_2.png) [@philip-n](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/philip-n)\
**Post date:** [17 February 2021 08:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/134 "2021-02-17T08:24:37Z")

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I understood your initial post the same way that tessus did. But if you are looking for a mindmap visualisation of a single note, this sounds technically similar to what the [outline plugin](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/a-markdown-outline-sidebar-plugin-for-joplin/13364) does (e.g. extracting all headers and displaying them). So maybe this could be a starting point for implementation.

Or maybe @cqroot fancies creating an alternative mindmap view inside the outline plugin (which I doubt).

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**Author:** ![cqroot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/cqroot/32/6208_2.png) [@cqroot](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/cqroot)\
**Post date:** [17 February 2021 11:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/135 "2021-02-17T11:43:19Z")

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This looks like a great plugin. Unlike the outline, it can be implemented based on [https://markmap.js.org/](https://markmap.js.org/). It is more suitable as a brand new plugin.

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**Author:** ![franz-sp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/franz-sp/32/5455_2.png) [@franz-sp](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/franz-sp)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2021 17:35 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/137 "2021-02-18T17:35:13Z")

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@laurent : Zettlr allows for writing the bibtex citekey (an unique id for an entry in a bibtex database) and transforming it automatically in an inline citiation with the full entry added at the end of the text in a "Reference" section. The citation style is selected by choosing a [CSL style](https://citationstyles.org) from a list in the preferences pane.

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**Author:** ![pw6163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pw6163](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/pw6163)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2021 21:06 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/138 "2021-02-25T21:06:33Z")

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I cold see the use for this if it could be a timeline for a specific set of tags.

Sorry I'm late to the discussion !

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**Author:** ![pw6163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pw6163](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/pw6163)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2021 21:22 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/139 "2021-02-25T21:22:14Z")

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I used Drafts for about a year, but I'm finding things that don't quite 'work' for me, so notes are being transferred over to Joplin.

But there's one feature of Drafts that I'd like to see here - "virtual notebooks". Drafts calls them workspaces and they're defined through a set of tags. Each note with the correct tags becomes part of a workspace - more than one if that's the way you've defined things.

I found the feature very useful, but I'm not sure how difficult it would be to replicate in Joplin.

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**Author:** ![roman\_r\_m](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/roman_r_m/32/3297_2.png) [@roman\_r\_m](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/roman_r_m)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2021 21:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/140 "2021-02-25T21:29:08Z")

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You might find this plugin useful [Notebook, Note, To-do, Tag, Search Favorites Plugin](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-note-to-do-tag-search-favorites-plugin/14049)

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**Author:** ![pw6163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pw6163](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/pw6163)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2021 12:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/any-suggestions-on-what-plugins-could-be-created/9479/141 "2021-03-01T12:33:59Z")

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Thanks, I'll try that !

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