# Full visualize notebook list

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [23 November 2024 14:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148 "2024-11-23T14:36:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![francus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@francus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/francus)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2024 14:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/1 "2024-11-23T14:36:01Z")

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### Operating system

Linux

### Joplin version

3.0.13

### What issue do you have?

Even after trying various views/zoom my list of notebooks is cut in half vertically, to leave space for the text on the left. Even toggling various views of the text, the notebook list is always cut in half, so that it is impossible to read the full title of the notebooks.

Even clicking on a notebook, I can see the notes inside, but the full name of the notebook is not shown. The only way to see the full name of the notebook is to try to rename it

Even making a search, the search is done on the notes, but not on the notebooks.

Obviously the notebooks are more important than the contained notes the same way that states are more important than the towns and towns are more important than the villages.

So I wonders why I cannot get my Joplin working properly and everything is reversed

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**Author:** ![graphit0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/graphit0/32/3435_2.png) [@graphit0](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/graphit0)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2024 17:28 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/2 "2024-11-23T17:28:37Z")

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Hey, can you provide a screenshot of the issue?

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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:** [23 November 2024 20:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/3 "2024-11-23T20:29:35Z")

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As @graphit0 says, a screen grab would be helpful to see exactly what your problem is.

However if I have understood what you have said so far, you can use **View \> Change application layout** to put the Notebook _and_ Note lists in the same column to let you make the column wider.

 ![application_view](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/e/1e55d8c5f1fa25f99337e81f0646852f0fd0b89d.png)

Or you can install the [Note Tabs plugin](https://joplinapp.org/plugins/plugin/joplin.plugin.note.tabs), enable "breadcrumbs" and use the advanced settings to significantly increase the **"Maximum breadcrumb width (px)"**. You use **View \> Change application layout** to position the Note Tab pane above the editor where it will show the name of the notebook (and any sub-notebook) the displayed note is in.

_Breadcrumb first level notebook_

 ![breadcrumbs](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/e/1/e1c17d63fbccf91d9884a4ac55e44507f2d47279.png)

_Breadcrumb sub-notebook_

 ![breadcrumbs_subnotebook](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/6/6/665f22d403273a3b72abbc471dd02c45cba83080.png)

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**Author:** ![francus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@francus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/francus)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2024 21:16 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/4 "2024-11-23T21:16:31Z")

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![Joplin cuts titles](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/8/9/898b5c0c3ca251359f6c6e4dae0e167b5836fae7.png)

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**Author:** ![francus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@francus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/francus)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2024 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/5 "2024-11-23T21:27:18Z")

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Change application layout worked very well to fix my problem, many thanks, my friend.

I'm using Joplin all the time since at least 10 years and I do not even knew that there are plugins, many thanks. I'll have a look.

And regarding the search that only looks for notes and not for notebooks, is there a fix as well?

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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:** [23 November 2024 21:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/6 "2024-11-23T21:33:32Z")

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> [@francus](#):
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> And regarding the search that only looks for notes and not for notebooks, is there a fix as well?

Searches for notes within specific notebooks are prefixed by the term `notebook:`

If I have two notebooks, **book01** and **book02** , and search for `notebook:book01` I will be presented with all the notes in **book01**. If I search `notebook:book*` I will be presented with all the notes in _both_ notebooks and any other notebook with a name that starts **book**.

If I want to see the notes **only** in **book02** that contain the word "spanner" then I would use `notebook:book02 spanner`.

If I just want to see a list of notebooks that contain the word "book" I can use the "Goto anything" search ( **Go \> Goto anything** or default shortcut `CTRL+P`) and type `@book`.

Searching and search filters are explained on the web-site help page [here](https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/search).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [23 December 2024 21:34 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/full-visualize-notebook-list/42148/7 "2024-12-23T21:34:04Z")

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