Any suggestions on what plugins could be created?

[uxamanda]

This seems like a simpler syntax than Mermaid for creating flow charts. Would make for a nice plugin https://flowchart.fun
GitHub - tone-row/flowchart-fun: A small app for making quick flowcharts from text ⿻

[CWPfVTkNBMyfdFW]

I would really like some extra formatting, like ~~strikethrough~~, and the most important, > quoted because one line is easy but a whole paragraph is a pain, I have to add > before every single line.
Having extra toolbar buttons and shortcuts for these would be nice. (EDIT: What I'm asking for are the toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts, the formatting is already there in Joplin)

I thought about this, and I actually would like a regex preset to apply on selected text, so I can create all my formatting commands without having to bother anyone, like a ~~$1~~ preset and the likes, but also more complicated things. Currently I'm using templates for some of those, but they are static and can't work with selected text or clipboard.

[uxamanda]

@CWPfVTkNBMyfdFW

I would really like some extra formatting, like ~~strikethrough~~

I am not sure if you are looking for something different, but if you haven't already, you can enable some "extra" markdown features in settings. Unfortunately I don't see one that helps with quoted but there is one for strikethrough.

[CWPfVTkNBMyfdFW]

Rereading my message, I realize I wasn't clear at all, my bad. I would like some toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts for the formatting I mentioned, instead of having to type manually every time.

[blank]

+1
A plugin to add buttons in the toolbar would be great.
(Strikethrough ~~ , mark ==, are 2 markdown syntax that I use a lot.)

[artema91]

I would like to also indicate the number of notes you have marked with the checkbox, to have a control of how many activities I have done with respect to the total.

Here I leave you the topic about that: [Feature Request] Count the notes with checked checkbox - Features - Joplin Forum (joplinapp.org)

Thanks!

[IanHinton]

This is the only missing feature that is stopping me from migrating from Evernote to Joplin. I know that many Evernote users are looking for an alternative, and that the nearest is Joplin. This feature is heavily used by veteran Evernote users. I'm surprised at the lack of interest here.

[jb261]

@IanHinton

This is the only missing feature that is stopping me from migrating from Evernote to Joplin. I know that many Evernote users are looking for an alternative, and that the nearest is Joplin. This feature is heavily used by veteran Evernote users. I'm surprised at the lack of interest here.

This has been discussed and as I recall, @laurent said he's open to a PR for such a note list feature. Someone was working on this at one point but had to shelve it due to lack of time. My guess is Joplin will eventually have this, perhaps as a plugin.

If lack of a note list showing attributes is the only thing stopping you from moving from EN to Joplin, perhaps there are workarounds. I assume you're familiar with the View > Sort notes by menu option?

If you're only changing the note list view (from the common setting most users use of sort by last updated, reverse sort) for note maintenance, perhaps the menu option is sufficient.

The attributes for a note can be accessed by clicking on the little circled 'i' top right of note.

Another potential workaround is @JackGruber's Note Overview plugin. I use this if I want to clean up notes with large attachments I no longer need. You could use this plugin for other note maintenance tasks.

[L1NKD34D]

Ability to create and manage custom template variables would be excellent. If not entirely custom, even a few additions to the current selection like {{ Title }} or similar.

[IanHinton]

Thanks for your input.
I tried the "Sort notes" option early on, but it's 3 selections away (slow access), and is short on options. Having the notes in a table format, in which my favourite columns are preconfigured, and then being able to simply click on any column to have it sorted (a 2nd click on the same column inverts the order), is a really powerful and fast feature.
Following your suggestion, I installed and tried out the "Note Overview" plugin, but I find it too rigid.
Will continue to wait.
Thanks for your advice.

[jb261]

@IanHinton

Following your suggestion, I installed and tried out the "Note Overview" plugin, but I find it too rigid.
Will continue to wait.

If you have several routine maintenance processes, you could create a note overview note for each. Throw those notes into a separate folder, drop that folder into your Favorites panel, and that might be a reasonable workaround until Joplin gets a note list view with sortable attributes.

[danmrc]

What about text snippets? This would allow some ideas above to be implemented by users (like a keyboard shortcut to strikethrough). There is this topic, but I am not sure what happened with the idea.

I really would like arbitrary code to be entered, because it would allow defining custom html code in the userstyle.css. I have no idea of how hard it would be (maybe it is really hard and that is why nobody did it!).

Maybe I am spending too much time using emacs and yasnippet.

[diibv]

Plugin idea: Adjustable text width for rendered notes.

Max text width for reading pane - userstyle

I find it’s difficult to read when your eyes have to track overly long lines of text. This: body { width: 100%; padding: auto; } div { margin: auto; max-width: 40em; } Makes it look like this instead: [image] (Add those lines to your userstyle.css in your Profile folder. You can tweak the width by changing the 40. Restart Joplin after saving changes.)

[uxamanda]

@robotcorner

A plugin that add's a theme option (i.e) custom themes, similar to VS Code, then you can select that theme from the theme menu.

To add to this, I think a simple theme builder like Slack would be really nice.

Ideally it would also allow for basic changes like Condensed/Regular (line height), Max Width of editor (like @diibv mentioned), Header size difference (make each header x times larger than the next, and let the user slide to change X) with some preset themes for what you generally work on "journaling", "code notes / math", "night mode" etc.

As Laurent explained to me,

@laurent

These variables are readonly so indeed the plugin you mentioned wouldn't be currently possible. In any case, these variables are derived from the theme file so perhaps the way to go is to allow creating a custom theme from a plugin, which shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Once that's done, it should be possible to dynamically set the values from a config screen (although restarting the app might be necessary, I'm not sure).

I am happy to create mockups for how this would work if anyone wants to collaborate on building it into a plugin.

[B0BIC]

I don't get it, doesn't the "all notes" button show this? And there are sort options, too.

[B0BIC]

I don't know if this would count as a plugin or a feature, but I would love the ability to change WYSIWYG fonts. The current font on Mac just seems weird.

I'd also like the ability to set a "default" folder for new notes, instead of always resorting to whatever folder I was in last.

[roman_r_m]

Would be good to have a way to install syntax highlighting for languages that aren't supported out of the box. This is prompted by No code syntax highlighting for x86asm in editor · Issue #4417 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

Maybe even have some sort of editor to define keywords/rules for highlighting like for instance Notepad++ has.

[uxamanda]

A meta plugin to check for and notify when plugins have updates. See Check for Plugin Updates - #3 by uxamanda

[jbwalters]

Incorporating the graphing tool charter would be incredible.

[graphit0]

Link title update feature / plugin

Would be good to have a way

• to update the titles of links in all linked notes if the tittle of the link source is changed
• to indicate broken internal links if the link source is deleted

Why

It helps to keep growing and evolving documentation: you might not need to worry about updating titles in one note and run around the backlinks to update the displayed title on other notes.

Example

Suppose you made a first draft of a note Favorite lunch, you link it to other notes. Then the note changed direction and you change the title to Sandwiches. Now everywhere else in the notebook it links to Sandwiches but title being displayed as Favorite lunch. And to change the title, you need painstakingly copy the updated title everywhere where it was linked before.

Demonstration

This demo shows my take how this feature might look like. Broken links are shown in the body and the title of a note.

I think this feature also might be great addition for some existing plugins (like Automatic backlinks/@ambrt , Quick Links Plugin/@roman_r_m , Rich Markdown/@CalebJohn) if the creator is interested.

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