# Displaying plugins by topic?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [16 December 2021 06:52 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420 "2021-12-16T06:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitewall](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/whitewall/32/6018_2.png) [@whitewall](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/whitewall)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 06:52 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420/1 "2021-12-16T06:52:20Z")

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I noticed that there are now more than 80 plugins in the repository. _I'm wondering if there isn't a better way to display them than by just an alphabetical sort_. I know that categorizing them is sometimes rather subjective, but I don't think we should let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

So for my own curiosity, I went ahead and tried to sort them by topic. I have no idea how something like this might be administered. Relying on developers to offer a category would be better than nothing, but it seems like having some control might be good. Is this a possibility through npm?

And a big thank you for everyone who has made plugins and core Joplin!

> <https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/5867>
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> \# problem
> There are now more than 80 plugins in the repository. Finding the rig…ht plugin solution for your problem can be difficult.
> 
> \# solution
> Create categories for plugins 
> 
> \# Issues
> \* Currently we don't have any category info in the plugin manifests. We have keywords (used in search) but those can be set to anything by the plugin developers so we probably can't derive a category from it.
> \* We'd need to add a new field and create a number of pre-defined categories.

| Name | Description | Category | sub topic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Attaché | Your attachment updater. Mass replacement of Joplin attachments (resources) such as resized image files, current music playlists, and any other attachments you need to one-off or regularly update within Joplin. | administration | attachments |
| Disable PDF | Disables the PDF preview (and export) in Joplin for better performance | administration | |
| Simple Backup | Plugin to create manual and automatic backups. | administration | |
| Victor | Victor can be used to clear all your data - notes, notebooks, attachments, tags, etc. Convenient to start over. | administration | |
| Resource Search Plugin | Search in Attached Resources | attachments | search |
| Conflict Resolution | A plugin that makes process of resolving conflicts easier. | developer | |
| Get Notebook ID | Copy/Show the ID of a notebook. For developers. A regular user won't need this. | developer | |
| Better Markdown Viewer | Keep Cursor Synced Between Editor and MD Viewer | display | |
| CodeMirror Line Numbers | Enables line numbers for CodeMirror editor | display | |
| Rich Markdown | Helping you ditch the markdown viewer for good. | editing | markdown editor |
| Insert Date | Adds a button to insert the current date (without time) into the editor. | editing | |
| Note Variables | A plugin to create variables that can be accesed through all the notes. | editing | |
| Paste Special | A plugin used to paste special text into Joplin | editing | |
| Table Formatter Plugin | Format the table under the cursor in Markdown editor | editor | tables |
| BibTeX | Use locally stored BibTeX files to integrate citation into Joplin | integration | citations |
| Email Note | Send a note as an email | integration | email, export |
| Export To SSG | Export a collection of notes to static site generator project. | integration | export |
| Pages Publisher | Generate static blog website from your picked Joplin notes, and publish to Github Pages, with a few mouse clicks. Support preview in local | integration | export |
| Bible Quote | Quote the bible direct in text editor | integration | |
| Jira Issue | Retrieve Atlassian Jira issues information using their api in order to track the status of them from your Joplin notes. | integration | |
| Joplin Anki Sync | Bidirectional sync between Joplin and Anki | integration | |
| joplin-hackmd | Quick share notes on HackMD | integration | |
| NLR | 将joplin在记笔记的同时，变成一个网文小说阅读器,a chinese net literature downloader and reader plugin for joplin. | integration | |
| PlantUML2 | Render PlantUML diagram inside your Joplin notes. | integration | |
| Home Note | Plugin to open a choosen note each time joplin starts. It is like homepages on browsers. | interface | homepage |
| Quick Goto | Switch to designated notes using keyboard shortcuts | interface | shortcuts |
| Note Tabs | Allows to open several notes at once in tabs and pin them. | interface | tabs |
| Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons | Additional menu items, shortcuts, and toolbar icons, which are not part of Joplin core | interface | toolbar |
| Note list and sidebar toggle buttons | Adds buttons to toggle note list and sidebar | interface | toolbar |
| Favorites | Save any notebook, note, to-do, tag, or search as favorite in an extra panel view for quick access. | interface | |
| Folding in Code Mirror Editor | Allows to fold parts of markdown text displayed in editor | interface | |
| Notes Station Import | This plugin imports notes from QNAP Notes Station | interface | |
| Outline | Outline (TOC) sidebar plugin for joplin. | interface | |
| Persistent Editor Layout | Save the editor layout (editor/split view/viewer/rich text) for each note separately with custom tags. | interface | |
| Kanban | Flexible kanban board plugin for all your tasks | kanban | |
| Autolinker | Adds an icon to the toolbar. When clicked, it creates a link to the note with a title matching the selected text. | linking | interface |
| Automatic Backlinks to note | Creates backlinks to opened note, also in automatic way | linking | |
| Copy Anchor Link | Add a link icon near each heading. Copy Joplin markdown link of the specific heading to clipboard when click on the icon. | linking | |
| Copy link to active note | Adds entry to right click menu in editor to get link to active note | linking | |
| Create and go to #tags and @notebooks | Go to tag,notebook or note via links or via text | linking | |
| Embed Search | Embeds list of links specified by search inside of note | linking | |
| Joplin User Link Plugin | A Joplin plugin for custom links, like jump://?query=blabla. | linking | |
| Make All Links | Searches the current note for mentions of other notes, then makes the corresponding links. Just click the new icon in the toolbar. | linking | |
| Note Link System | A complete Link System for Joplin. Referrer(aka. backlink), Quick Link, Copy Anchor, and much more feature | linking | |
| Quick Links | Create links to other notes | linking | |
| Admonition markdown extension | Enables markdownIt admonition plugin, which enables formatting notes | markdown enhancements | |
| Container with Classes | Plugin for creating block-level containers with classes for customization | markdown enhancements | |
| Quick HTML tags | Create quick HTML tags. | markdown enhancements | |
| Rubi and Furigana | Commands that insert appropriate and tags to formatted text to display furigana. | markdown enhancements | |
| Spoilers | Create inline spoilers and spoiler blocks with title and extendable body. | markdown enhancements | |
| Hotfolder | Monitors a locale folder and import the files as a new note. | note management | import |
| Combine notes | Combine one or more notes | note management | |
| Complete Link | This plugin adds an icon to the toolbar. When clicked, it completes the selected text into a note title (in a markdown link). | note management | |
| Convert Text To New Note | Converts highlighted text to new one in same folder | note management | |
| Link Graph UI | Visualize the connections between Joplin notes. | note management | |
| Note Statistics | Plugin to get note statistics | note management | |
| OCR | offline OCR auto/manually for images, videos, pdf documents in your Joplin notes | note management | |
| Quick Move | Collection of commands to quickly move notes to other notebooks. | note management | |
| Random note | Opens a random note from your vault | note management | |
| Semantically Similar Notes | Show user which notes are semantically similar to the one they are looking at | note management | |
| Send snippet to different note | Sends snippet of text to any other note from any notebook | note management | |
| Untagged | This is a joplin plugin to find notes and todos without a tag. | note management | |
| Day Review | This plugin adds an icon to the toolbar. When clicked, it makes a review of the day's created/updated/completed notes and todos. | note management ? | |
| Automate Notes | Finds blocks of javascript in the current note (blocks have to start with javascript" and end with ") and runs it as a function. | rendering | javascript |
| Note overview | A note overview is created based on the defined search and the specified fields. | rendering | note management |
| Markdown table calculations | Plugin for automatic calculations of markdown table formulas. | rendering | tables |
| Markdown Table: Colorize | Add colors to markdown table syntax to help distinguish different columns | rendering | tables |
| Markdown Table: Sortable | Add the ability to sort rendered tables on the fly | rendering | tables |
| ABC Sheet Music Plugin | Turns ABC text notation into sheet music | rendering | |
| Math Mode | Turn your notes into a powerful calculator with inline math. | rendering | |
| turnToChart | Transform markdown table into d3js chart | rendering | |
| embedded tags | embeded tags | tagging | |
| Inline tags | Inline tags plugin | tagging | |
| Tagging | Plugin to extend the Joplin tagging menu with a coppy all tags and a tagging dialog with more control. (Formerly Copy Tags). | tagging | |
| Tags Generator | Plugin for Joplin which can be used to extract keywords from note and assign them as a note's tags | tagging | |
| Templates | This plugin allows you to create and use templates in Joplin. | templates | |
| GitHub Theme | Joplin theme with colors of GitHub | theme | |
| macOS theme | Native looking macOS theme for Joplin. Also works on non-macOS devices. | theme | |
| White Theme | A white theme for joplin | theme | |
| Agenda | An agenda/calendar/schedule panel for joplin that shows all uncompleted to-dos with a due date. | todo | |
| Metis | A Simple Task Manager Plugin for Joplin based on Todo.txt Specification | todo | |
| Repeating To-Dos | A powerful and comprehensive plugin for to-do repetition/recurrence | todo | |

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 09:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420/2 "2021-12-16T09:04:18Z")

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That would indeed be a good idea and it would help to browse the plugins, however currently we don't have any category info in the plugin manifests. We have keywords (used in search) but those can be set to anything by the plugin developers so we probably can't derive a category from it. So I guess we'd need to add a new field and create a number of pre-defined categories.

Actually would you mind copying your post to GitHub so that we have some place to track this?

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**Author:** ![whitewall](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/whitewall/32/6018_2.png) [@whitewall](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/whitewall)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 09:07 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420/3 "2021-12-16T09:07:08Z")

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My pleasure. Feel free to edit it once it is there.

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**Author:** ![whitewall](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/whitewall/32/6018_2.png) [@whitewall](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/whitewall)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 09:10 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420/4 "2021-12-16T09:10:32Z")

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Hmm. I'm not sure where to put it. When I go to `issues` I see this screen:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/4/4df6df5366721f08d01deb4a7c5baa77aff393ad.png)

Selecting `Feature requests` brings me back to the forum.

Should I make it as a bug report and then you can convert it later?

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 09:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/displaying-plugins-by-topic/22420/5 "2021-12-16T09:23:28Z")

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Right, yes please create a bug report and we'll label it properly once it's there.