I use joplin extensively for notes and it's been really great for that (I have thousand of notes for every aspect of work and personal).
I used to use an Android app called "taplog" that had a lot of good features. Some of the things I liked:
- Click on an icon to automatically log the current date for a specific predefined event.
- Click on an icon to log the current date, but I can enter a description or line manually.
- If the data is numeric, I can see a chart or graph of the values over time
This isn't strictly speaking note-taking, more of data logging. But I already use Joplin to keep track of this kind of data , especially since I have everything all in one place easily searchable. So what I'm looking for is an easier way to log these kinds of things in Joplin.
Right now I open Joplin, search for and open the correct note, hit the edit button, add the current date and the text of whatever data I'm logging, and then close. It works, it's just a lot of steps.
So the crazy idea is: could there be some way to make custom UI that would make it easier to log these kinds of data into notes?
For example: I weigh myself every morning. I want to click on an icon, enter my weight (numbers only), and that would be automatically added along with the current date to the top of the "weight" note in Joplin.
Another example: every time I change the water filter in my fridge I click on an icon and it automatically adds " fridge filter changed" along with the current date to the top of the " House maintenance" note in Joplin.
I bet I could totally do this by a plug-in on the desktop app, but the most useful place is in the Android app. Is there a way to create custom UI and/or plugins like this on the Android app? Or could there be a way for an external app to interact directly with the Joplin app on Android via API or intents to create/modify notes like this?
Thanks, I know this is a niche ask but something I would find really useful