How can I open an external link of a Joplin tag in Joplin app (Desktop & Android)

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Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.4.12

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.4.12 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Client ID: 95129a039d73425ca166bc4a948de767
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 48
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: e9a9f68

Backup: 1.4.3
Copy HTTP link: 1.0.0
Joplin Calendar: 1.2.0
Joplin DDDot: 0.4.2
Joplin Delayed Sync: 1.0.2
Note Tabs: 1.4.0

Sync target

Dropbox

Editor

Markdown Editor

What issue do you have?

Hello there:

As post title indicated, I would like to know:

How can I open an external link of a Joplin tag, in Joplin app (Desktop & Android)

Desktop app solution is more important than Android app solution. The point is, I'd like to have a mechanism to click and open a tag link from wintin a Joplin note.

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right click on tag > copy external link

I'm not sure I'm fully understanding you here. If you want to easily see the notes attached to a tag from within a note you can use the embed search plugin. You just use it to hardcode a search for all notes with the specific tag and place it in your specific note. It works both on desktop and mobile.

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Hello there:

Not quite the same. You know there is a Joplin function that allows users to "Copy Markdown Link" of a Joplin note, which they can then paste into any desired note and open by clicking. I am looking forward to the same mechanism for Joplin tags.

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Okay, thanks for the additional explanation. Now I understand. I believe what you want does not exist in vanilla joplin.

However, you can use the workaround I mentioned to get what you want. Let me elaborate a bit more.

Let's say you have a tag named blue. Create a note named blue whose sole purpose will be to display all the notes attached to the blue tag. Its content will be an embedded search which looks like this:

```search
tag:"blue"
```

Then you can use direct links to that note.

I do that for each of the few tags that I use and it works very well and is very convenient.

Plugin link: GitHub - ambrt/joplin-plugin-embed-search: Embed search inside note. Joplin plugin · GitHub

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Hello there:

I am still in the middle of trying out the plugin. Quick questions: the search result seems to show only in Markdown mode. In WYSIWYG mode, it does not show search result. And also, the search syntax will disappear after I quit markdown mode and get back to WYSIYTG mode of the note. Is that how the plugin is supposed to work?

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I just tried what you see is what you get mode and I can confirm that the plugin stops working there. It only works in Markdown mode. Sorry about that, I'm always in Markdown mode so I was not aware of this limitation.

Hopefully someone else will chime in and provide a solution that works for that mode.

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Thanks! I just removed the plugin already.

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I'm not sure if I understand the request, but here's what I do that might help:

In my notes system, I have set up a #work-in-progress tag and tagged those things that I am actively working on. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Android.

I have a "Daily Hub" note that directs my day's workflow. In it I have:

[work in progress items](joplin://x-callback-url/openTag?id=8ebec00dec714007b1cdc7971ee010c5)

I right-clicked on the #work-in-progress tag from the tag list, copied the external link, pasted it in the note but had to manually create the link syntax.