# Moving Notebooks on Mobile

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [25 October 2019 05:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059 "2019-10-25T05:24:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Gamegenorator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/gamegenorator/32/3466_2.png) [@Gamegenorator](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Gamegenorator)\
**Post date:** [25 October 2019 05:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/1 "2019-10-25T05:24:27Z")

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On Desktop, you can move Notebooks under other Notebooks making subdirectories. There appears to be no way to do this on mobile though.

Right now attempting to drag Notebooks results in a long hold bringing up a menu to rename the Notebook

Maybe a long hold would bring the menu which allowed renaming, and moving of notebooks. Or at least an option in the settings menu go into some sort of “edit mode” allowing for the moving of Notebooks.

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [25 October 2019 05:58 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/2 "2019-10-25T05:58:45Z")

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There was a PR open for it a while back. The OP did not implement the requested changes and later abandoned it, thus it got never merged.

> <https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/1141>

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**Author:** ![Gamegenorator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/gamegenorator/32/3466_2.png) [@Gamegenorator](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Gamegenorator)\
**Post date:** [25 October 2019 06:18 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/3 "2019-10-25T06:18:35Z")

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I'm surprised the OP would't be willing to do such a simple yet crucial change himself, but oh well ☹

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [25 October 2019 21:49 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/4 "2019-10-25T21:49:38Z")

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I don't think you understand what OP means. OP is the original poster. The person who created a post, PR, issue.  
I can re-open the PR and you can do this simple yet crucial change yourself. 🤔

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**Author:** ![Gamegenorator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/gamegenorator/32/3466_2.png) [@Gamegenorator](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Gamegenorator)\
**Post date:** [26 October 2019 01:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/5 "2019-10-26T01:36:00Z")

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That makes a little more sense, thanks for the clarification, I meant Laurent adding the feature. As to re-opening it, I might decide to someday but at the moment I don’t know quite enough about react and electron to do that yet, still in the process of learning.

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**Author:** ![pmmontanari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/pmmontanari/32/25685_2.png) [@pmmontanari](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/pmmontanari)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2025 09:38 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/6 "2025-05-16T09:38:30Z")

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I don't know if I should open another PR, since the content of my post is basically "Moving Notebooks on Mobile".

I have a lot of Notebooks and Sub-(Sub...)-Notebooks. On mobile (Android phone) it is hard for me to move a note to another notebook because

- the dropdown menu with all the notebooks is too small, so long names get cut
- the indentation level of Sub-(Sub...)-Notebooks is preserved, but since the dropdown is narrow I can barely see the name of notebooks . This is what I'm talking about: ![bitmap](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/2/b/2b451abac2f6ef065bfffaa4662353288637238e.png)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mrjo118](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/mrjo118/32/23404_2.png) [@mrjo118](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/mrjo118)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2025 23:44 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/moving-notebooks-on-mobile/4059/7 "2025-05-17T23:44:28Z")

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If you switch your phone to landscape when you need to move a notebook, then the dropdown will have a lot more width