I’m super lazy so I would like to open a particular note str8 from the iPhone home screen, with one terminal command or as quickly as possible from the desktop. Can anyone tell me the quickest way to open a given note from these three platforms?

I honestly don’t think there is. Joplin doesn’t save notes in a normal way like many other note taking apps. Notes and resources (such as images or files) are labeled in a cryptic, non human readable way. It’s also heavily built around syncing with a cloud server for saving notes so that they are ea…

Of course, if your notes aren’t encrypted, if you know the specific title of your note, you might be able to use something like grep -r "<insert title here> /directory/where/you/keep/local/copy/of/cloud/files. You’ll need to make sure whatever cloud service you use has a client available for your …

Right yeah I guess "is there an establish way to" is a more accurate phase than "is it possible to". Thanks, great answer! I guess you're not an iPhone user :slight_smile:

I am an iPhone, Android, and Linux user all at one time right now. I haven’t found a mobile option yet for what you’re looking to do

Another excellent response, thanks bedwardly-down

Also, if you ever want to use it more in the future: grep -r "" / means recursively search a directory for that string. A lot of core Linux cli apps use -r for recursive. Such a useful feature.

Two solutions I can think of are Using tags, add a tag like !important, on the iphone just click the tag and it will show you all the notes, not the most efficient way but it works Deep Linking, this is not yet available. but when available you can use other program to directly open specific notes…

Would that only be applicable to an iPhone or would Android possibly have something equivalent at least on both fronts?

Thanks @subie deep linking seems interesting. Just think some people take so many notes (maybe trying to integrate their brain into the internet of things?) that it would save moments not to go through the app each time.

im not too sure about that, but I tried other apps like zotero that can do this

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I am adding below to keep the development in context.

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Home screen shortcuts to notebooks Features	1	155	25 October 2025
Android: Home Screen shortcut to a specific note Support	2	109	30 January 2026
[request] single note shortcuts from mobile homepage Features	6	1245	19 May 2020
Mobile: Add support for home screen shortcuts on Android Features	0	68	25 May 2026
Feature Request: Widget Shortcuts to Notes on Mobile Features	0	778	1 December 2022

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