Joplin in 2025

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Happy New Year to the developers and Joplin users!

Another year has passed and Joplin has further matured, with added native features and plugins. For 2025, as a user, my remaining wishes are actually mostly for iOS.

  • There is still No WYSIWYG editing for tables.
  • There is still no web clipper.
  • There is still no style css.

On the desktop, I wish there are continued useability improvements.

  • I wish there is a plugin that searches for externally linked images and downloads them as local images.
  • I wish there is a "Recent" button along with "Notebooks" and "Tags" on the left pane. When you click it, a list of notes will show just like when you select a notebook or tag. (I know there is a nice plugin, but it seems to take extra space. Can one put a recent note list half pane below the "Notebooks" and "Tags" pane? Edit: the DDDot plugin is really good.)
  • I wish the web clipper has a nice way to clip YouTube videos (e.g., as a markdown link with a screenshot). [Note: a workaround to copy a markdown link is the "Markdownload" browser plugin.] If a web page has an embedded YouTube video, the link is lost when captured by the web clipper.
  • If the tag list can show the tags in multiple columns, that will be a more efficient way to display hundreds of tags.
  • I wish there is a button to collapse all notebooks to the top level of each notebook.
  • I wish pressing the enter key produces a line break with single spacing instead of double spacing so I don't need to do shift+enter.

But hats off to the developers for the hard work in 2024! You are really doing a great service to the personal knowledge management community.

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I wish there is a button to collapse all notebooks to the top level.

There is, isn't there? If I click on 'Notebooks', the entire lists collapses. And a notebook with subnotebooks has the little triangle shape in front of it that basically does the same thing (v3.1.24 win32)

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Thanks. It looks I didn't make it clear. I don't want the entire list of notebooks to disappear (which is how the current way works). What I meant was to click this button and all notebooks are collapsed to level 1. So if you have 10 notebooks, the pane will still show 10 notebooks, but each notebook is collapsed, not showing its subnotebooks.

The user case for this is when you have many notebooks with several levels of subnotebooks. When you work on them, you open some subnotebooks here and there. Soon the tree of subnotebooks will become very long and it takes time to scroll to another top-level notebook. But if you have such a button to collapse all notebooks to level 1, it's much easier to go to a particular notebook from a 10 item list than a big tree. (For example, Obsidian has this "Collapse all" button.)

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