New to Joplin, using Journal plugin on Android

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Operating system

Android

Joplin version

3.3.8

Sync target

Nextcloud

What issue do you have?

Hi all,
I am new to Joplin and still experimenting. So far, it feels quite good.

I am using the mobile client on Android (/e/os actually) synched with my self-hosted Nextcloud via WebDav and occasionally on desktop, synched too. All works quite well.

My plugins are on mobile and desktop: Backlinks, Quick links and Journal.

On mobile, I am not happy how open/create the todays Journal note and hope for some help. The Dokumentation apparently only covers Joplin on desktop.

I activated the option "Add Open Todays Note to Menu". This adds a menu item at the very end of the 3-dot-menu only when viewing a single note.

But when all notes of a notebook are listed, there isn't any menu. Tapping the "+" button allows creating a new note. It would be nice to open todays easily.

Is there an option i overlooked?

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Hello matti and Welcome to the forum...

Just in case, there's a topic for this plugin: "Plugin: Journal".
It's true the documentation is light: "GitHub - leenzhu/joplin-plugin-journal: Create or open note of today or selected date."

Is it the same under the desktop version ? I don't use Journal but it happen often (many plugins) that something is working under the desktop version and not yet under the mobile version.

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The first point in the "Manual": Click Tools -> Journal -> Open Today's Note to open a note for today.

This holds for the desktop variant only. On mobile there is no menu in general, only if a single note is focussed.

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OK. I took time to discover the Journal plugin (Linux + Joplin 3.4.1)...
Now I try to understand your issue. But I suppose options are not the same in Desktop version and mobile version.

Do you have some kind of shortcuts in the mobile version ?
In the desktop version:

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You are right: My post is only about the Android version.

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I implemented the mobile feature for this plugin, though the plugin itself isn't mine. There isn't a way in the plugin API to add something to the + button. The only way to add features like open today's note is to add a panel (like the backlinks or note tabs plugin) which can be opened from anywhere, also in the notebook view or to add commands to the three-dot menu, which is only available when a note is opened.

I went with the latter approach, honestly because it seemed easier and I didn't feel like I needed to add a whole panel when most users usually only need one or two commands.
It doesn't bother me to open a random note to have access to the three-dot menu personally.
However, if you feel differently and would prefer a different approach on mobile, feel free to open a feature request on github and maybe @leenzhu or I or someone else will implement it differently :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much for post as developer. It is good to learn about the limitations of the plugin api.

Now I have settled on these settings on Android:

  • write a sort of overview note and define it as home note (requires Home Note plugin) which is opened after start, so the 3-dot-menu is shown
  • open today's note via menu if I wish which is I don't do every day.

It would be great if one could select today's note as target when sharing some content from other apps.