Operating system Android Joplin version 3.5.8 Desktop version info 3.5.12 Editor Rich Text Editor What issue do you have? When I click the edit note button in the Android app I get a screen that looks like HTML. Anyway, it isn't plain text. And I want to be able to edit plain text on my phone. I…

Hi, are you referring to the codes and things that you see in your document when you do formatting like bold or setting a heading or putting in a URL? Joplin and other note taking apps use a format called markdown. The codes and things that you're seeing in your document that you might be confusing…

To add to LeoW’s reply, if you have a computer, it would be beneficial to sync your notes to the desktop client as well, as it provides an option to convert imported html notes to markdown (there should be a banner at the top when opening the note, and I think recently a feature was added to convert…

Thanks your responses. To give some background, I was a longtime Evernote user but I just switched to Joplin since I just wanted a basic note program that didn’t cost $250/year. So far, Joplin desktop works fine on my Windows 11 PC. And it works fine for reading notes on my Android. But I want a sim…

And here’s the note in read-mode: [sample note in read mode]

If the 3 dots menu shows edit as markdown, that means the rich text editor is already enabled (you press edit and markdown to toggle back to the markdown editor). I think you need to convert the note from html to markdown on the desktop app as mentioned, in order for it to render properly in the ri…

I tried converting 3 notes from html to markdown on the desktop and now they are easily editable as simple text in the Android app–thank you! That pretty much resolves my issue. However, is there a way to convert all my notes in bulk from html to markdown so I can edit them this way, or do I have to…

Well, Evernote uses a proprietary file format and when you save your Evernote notebooks out to a file the notes have HTML code in them. This you have seen. Joplin will import those files and attempt to save them as HTML which creates all those codes. When you import via markdown it creates a much s…

This is all interesting information that I hope will be useful to other users migrating from Evernote to Joplin. For myself, I already switched and made some extensive edits inside Joplin so I don't want to reimport from Evernote. I must have exported from Evernote as html. Now, if there is a way to…

[image] mrjo118: pressing the 3 dots menu in the top right, and choosing ‘Edit as Rich Text’ [image] StarryJoplin: It only shows the option to “edit as markdown” If settings > note > "use the plain text editor" is enabled, it may also help to disable it. This setting replaces both the …

Hi, The process of switching between HTML and markdown is not related to how you export the data from evernote. It has everything to do with a choice you make when you choose to import the data to Joplin. You can select HTML or markdown. If you've already done extensive editing here is another opt…

How can I edit note in plain text on the Android app?

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LeoW 26 January 2026 19:18 13

YES. If you had that turned on you disabled the standard Rich text/markdown editors and went with a more stripped down editor.

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How can I edit note in plain text on the Android app?

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