Notebook cover notes and name tags (zettelkast + hierarchy)
Each new notebook gets a cover note with
description of demarcation &/or svg logo/emoticon
its 'notebook name' tag
its parent cover note link (R Click Copy, Ctrl+v on top)
a backlink from each of its notes when they are put there
Freeform notes go in a Unsorted folder. Any tags will bring them into the mind map. Orphan notes get the untagged plugin for later checking in a favorited search
Plugins
? backlinks (set to auto) extends the link graph UI into the tree but may need to be done manually to be available to link graph
The tagging plugin allows moving ancestor tags by selecting notebook > F11 > click a note > ctrl+a > Tags > change name tags for all.
X Embed Search renders (sort:asc/desc) for batch copy & paste for backlinking. notebook:this is nonrecursive. Multiple searches per page.
search is multiterm, -exclusive, wildc*rded* and notebook: is recursive
Favorites includes searches like templates (but is not collapsible)
X note overview searches by API fields and sorts by any 1 of them. This is an auto updating note like a macro. Making the cover note auto updating for backlinks might be enough because I have to visit it every time I link to it.
Triggering an update on note/book updated_time (folder_title or parent_id) or note item_change (parent_id if moved or title) would mean storing these fields and times in the note.
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I am assumng that plugins access each others markdown and not their previews. Copy preview as markdown option for plugins like embed search and note overview with dynamic output. This could be a new feature or plugin extension since I will copy the selected text from plugin dynamic notes like embed search and note overview and auto backlinks to replace the contents of another note with a preset name ( so it can be used by other plugins). To cut down on processing an update (rerender) button could be used to avoid needing to visit the dynamic pages. I know there is an infinite loop risk from this so plugins would need to render in a custom order with a timeout reversal/cancel for each stage. But its that or not having them work together
A plugin could enable automatically giving all notebooks/folders, cover note templates with all notes linked there. An update button for its backlinks and tags per branch and overall. Is onEdit a JS event??? This on creation rather than on access linking should not be too resource intensive.
Plugin to have more options in WYSIWYG editor would be welcomed. Cross-out feature, more text coloring and text background options, upper index, etc. Whatever you add someone will find it useful.
Journaling done right plugin. See my previous FR on it. It would be nice if I can create daily notes that are dated automatically and put under dated folders.
This way text length doesn't matter and one doesn't have to mess with the text by adding spaces for alignment. If there are more columns it can loop through same 5 or 3 colors. (same idea with some reddit apps use for comment section).
This might be something the Rich Markdown plugin could do. I guess it would require classes to be added to the cells. Then you would use css to get the colours you want. @CalebJohn ?
That's a nice idea @zen-quo! I've added a request to the rich markdown plugin. If someone implements this as a plugin before I get to it, no worries! It seems really helpful.
The idea was mentioned in another thread but not here: a langage tag for the spell checker, basically the same as @benji300's Persist Editor Layout Plugin, but with tags like lang:en-us, lang:none for notes containing mostly code or similar, a default language for untagged notes and and maybe disable the spellchecker altogether if there are several lang: tags applied on a note.
I think it would be cool to have a "trashcan" plugin. Like some place deleted notes can go before they're destroyed forever. Like so they don't show up in search unless you specify. Although perhaps that would be too tricky to implement.
Right now I'm using the quick move plugin to do something like it, so perhaps it would be redundant.
It's not possible to not show notes in a trash folder in the search result, unless this is coded in core. A plugin cannot change the default search query run by Joplin core.
I'm in a process of writing a trash plugin. The problem is not the code, but usability stuff. (I'm really bad with UX and UI.) I can think of 2 methods how to specify the trash notebook:
create a Trash (Plugin) folder the first time the plugin is used
allow people to select a folder to be the Trash folder by right-clicking on the folder and click on a context menu item Set as trash bin or Set as rubbish bin
Both options would allow to change the name later and/or move it into any other notebook.
Is there a reason why it is better to do this as a plugin rather than as part of the application? Its not the sort of thing I would intuitively search for as a plugin, its something I would assume as core to the application, particularly if I was coming from Evernote which is not exactly uncommon.
If someone comes up with a good Trash Folder plugin we can always add it to the app by default. It's been discussed before, if something can be done as a plugin, it doesn't mean it can't be part of the core features.
A plugin is just nice modular way to add a feature - it's easier to create and easier to maintain too. If it turns out that feature is very useful, we can simply package it with the app and enable it by default.
The only problem is that I can't change the default search algorithm (select statement to AND NOT IN <trashbin_id>) in a plugin. This means notes in the trash will still show up in search results.
Yes, it might be that we need to make some changes to get such plugin to work, or maybe it can't even be done reliably as a plugin. Mic's pull request to add a Trash feature last year was massive, and my own failed attempts had a ton of changes too, so I'm not entirely sure it can even be done as a plugin, but it's still worth giving it a try.
I'd like a split note. I've imported a note from an outputed epub file so it is probably 50 pages or so. It would be cool to place my cursor somewhere and split the note into two notes at that point.
Hi everybody! I’d suggest a plug-in that allows users to pass the content of an existing note to a shell script.
I mean, a shell script made by the user to whatever purpose.
The user case I have in mind is forwarding the content of a Joplin note to pandoc.
The script could be stored in a custom field in the plug-in preferences, or the plug-in could watch a folder where several scripts are stored and pick one of these.
Although running pandoc would be my primary task, a Mac user like me could also invoke apple scripts through the shell, greatly extending Joplin’s integration with the system.
This would be like a kind of meta-plug-in, allowing users to write simple shell scripts that precisely fit in their workflow.
I made a quick search on the forum and didn’t find any previous suggestion like this one, so I apologise if I am just repeating an old request.
The new Template plugin allows you to create notes with dates and structures as you like. You just can't place them in advance in the given notebook... but it will happen.
The plugin API allows writing files to disk using fs-extra, so you could use this to write a script file to a directory, then you'd have an external script that watches that folder. Whenever a script is dropped in it, it's executed. That's not as direct as what you mention but it would work.
