I would say this is not a feature. What editor do you use? Could you share the overview note as JEX export?
The noteoverview use the Joplin search logic and has no own search!
When the search works in Joplin than the same search sould work in the noteoverview.
Wow - what a fast response.
Here is a note where the plugin block disappears. I am only using the builtin editors at the moment. I do go back and forth between the editors.
Here is the JEX export of a note where the block disappeared this morning. It leaves behind the result of the block.
A couple of explanations - I use a text expander to regenerate
I am not sure what you mean by the search works in core Joplin. When I do a search in Joplin it does not allow searching on multiple criteria, when this does work in not overview. It seems to only search on one thing at a time.
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Maire:
Issue: the note-overview-plugin block periodically disappears. I need to reinsert it into my note in order to regenerate the list. I don't know if this is a feature or a bug.
I would say this is not a feature. What editor do you use? Could you share the overview note as JEX export?
Issue: search for nested notebooks is problematic.
The noteoverview use the Joplin search logic and has no own search!
When the search works in Joplin than the same search sould work in the noteoverview.
Todo 
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Since you are talking about more than one editor, you are using markdown and rich text (WYSIWYG).
From the readme:
When the note is edited in Rich Text (WYSIWYG) editor, the note code block is not preserved!
Of course, Joplin allows this because noteoverview use joplin's search engin/filter.
Thanks for your help Jack! Yes - I was cycling between editors.
Search also seems to be working for me now.
I also tried out RegEx which also works.
Just to close on the issue - I realized that the block was disappearing when I was in split view. I just disabled split view and now everything works.
I started using Joplin about a week ago. I am moving off of EN and trying all of the alternatives. At this point I am sold on Joplin. Yes it could do a few things better (OCR search and email input) but everything else is great. I was also bothered by the lack of saved search, but now I have a note with search favorites and that works just fine.
I also tried a bunch of plugins. I like your plugin the best.
Thanks for the amazing plugin! I just started bullet journalling digitally this year and it's made making indexes and lists of notes so much easier!
I was wondering if there was one small feature you could add though: the plugin seems to combine notebooks with the same name which is inconvenient in the long term if I'm going to be having multiple notebooks with the same name (eg with years of journalling there will be multiple "January" notebooks)
I was wondering if you could add searching by notebook ID as well as by name?
The search is done with the Joplin search engine, the plugin has no own search.
This is the reasone, why this has to built directly into Joplin.
But it might be better to improve the current notbook search so that subnotebooks can also be searched.
Gotcha, makes sense!
New request: would it be possible to add tags for finegrained automation? I've made a search to link each of my daily notes to yesterday's note, however they also keep updating each day so they don't stay linked to the previous note...
It would be useful to be able to specify some conditions about when a search gets done in the code block too, maybe always is the current behaviour, selected would allow automatic updates only when the note the block is in is selected and manual would only update if it was manually triggered
update: always|selected|manual
I'm not 100% set on these tags in specific so I'm happy to chat about it if you have other ideas? But I think something along these lines would be really really useful! (I also understand that this might be a really big request if the current code isn't easily adapted)
I may be wrong in doing this but I have a few notebooks with sub-notebooks of the same name. Like Notebook1 has A, B, C etc. as sub-notebooks and Notebook2 also has A, B, C etc.
How do I tell NoteOverview that I want to only use the A from Notebook1. Simply specifying notebook:A gets results from both "A" notebooks even if the specification is made in a note within Notebook1.
I've tried things like
search: notebook:"Notebook1/A"
and
search: notebook:"Notebook1\A"
and
search: notebook:"Notebook1 A"
and all the other variations I could think of but I don't get any results at all this way.
This is not possible, because joplin can only search for the notebook name but not for nested notebooks paths.
I have created a GitHub issue to remeber me on the request. But I am not sure if I implement it and if so then only automatic and manual.
Note Overview is my favorite plugin! Is it possible to get a keyboard shortcut for the "Create note overview" menu item?
Here is my problem - I use the plugin so much that I need a keyboard shortcut. I looked through the Joplin forum and there does not seem to be a way to have user defined shortcuts.
This is already implemented.
https://github.com/JackGruber/joplin-plugin-note-overview#keyboard-shortcuts
On MacOS, there is no tools > options.
There is a Joplin > Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts, but the "Create note overview" keyboard shortcut is disabled. I tried setting it to something, but it would not take. It had a symbol as I typed.
I finally did find Joplin > Settings > Plugins > Note Overview, but there is no keyboard-shortcuts setting. There are other settings.
Seems like the options menu of Joplin is named differently under macOS. But oplin > Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts is correct.
This means that you are using a key combination that is already in use.
Move over the and you will see where this is already used
I pressed every modifier key + every regular key and it still doesn't work. Also there is no popup when I move over the . So I know this is not because of a shortcut conflict.
I suspect this is not your bug. I would feel better if someone on this forum can get this to work on macos. I only use 2 plugins so this might be an issue with the plugin framework.
I just tried it with my other plugin (Outline) and it also doesn't work. So - this does not seem to be your bug.
OK - I found the bug and I found the workaround and it truly has nothing to do with you. I have to say the keyboard manager is flakey.
Here is the bug: Joplin itself has a conflict with Hide Joplin, You don't see it until you change a regular shortcut, and it will give you this error message:
So I change Hide Joplin to Cmd-Shift-H and magically the plugins also started working. There is no error message at all if you change a plugin shortcut.
The interesting thing is as I was figuring it out all of the plugin shortcuts disappeared completely (several times) and I had to restart Joplin to get them to come back.
I have to figure out how to file a bug.
Bug filed: Plugin shortcut options editor fails without proper error message #8559
Is it possible to search for all notes with unchecked boxes "- " in the note body (not todo type notes)?
I tried: search: "- [ ]" which yields 0 notes, while search: "- [X]" yields hundreds of notes. For certain, there are plenty of unchecked boxes in note bodies, so my search parameter must be incorrect.
Edit: I think I've got it: search: /"- [ ]"
image optionstatus field per note overview #66 @aiosklimit to set how many results should be displayed per note overview #69