Notebook, Note, To-do, Tag, Search Favorites Plugin

mzguy · 2021-09-07T18:01:28.563Z

I had to wipe my Joplin installation to deal with issues. I had a full backup of the joplin-desktop folder though. Where can I go to grab all my favorites that the plugin had stored? I had some elaborate saved searches in there I'd rather not have to recreate from scratch. Thanks!

benji300 · 2021-09-09T07:19:27.295Z

Unfortunately this is not possible. As the Notebooks/Tags area is a single panel you cannot place the favorites panel inside of it. So you can only place it above or below the whole Notebooks/Tags area.

benji300 · 2021-09-09T07:23:53.054Z

The favorites are stored in the local App database. Which is stored in ./joplin-desktop/database.sqlite. If you have a complete backup of the joplin-desktop folder you should also have a backup of your favorites. Once you replace the database file after reinstalling the app and installing the plugin, your saved favorites should reappear.

mzguy · 2021-09-09T16:07:19.987Z

Thanks. I actually had to rebuild the database from the backup JEX for safety, but having access to the database here saved me a lot of time.

tokeriis · 2021-10-26T06:29:02.594Z

I love Favorites, its so flexible and well-integrated!
I have one remaining aesthetic problem with the borders around the favorites pane and the Notebooks list and Notes list panes.

While there is an interface in the plugin's advanced settings for changing the colors of text, background, etc, the border "chrome" does not have an option. See attached image, where the white border is visible in a incoherent way. I also think the border width should be thinner. Settings for this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Toke

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benji300 · 2021-11-04T19:33:09.907Z

Thanks for your feedback @tokeriis

Unfortunately this is nothing which is caused by the plugin... please see here for details.

Are you using a custom theme? Because I would assume another white border on the right hand side of the notebooks/tags area.

Shamp0o · 2021-11-04T21:15:30.504Z

When using system theme on a system that automatically switches between its light and dark theme based on the time of day I have to restart Joplin every time the theme switch happens in order to make this plugin's pane match the theme. All the built-in panes change colors accordingly.
I guess there's no way to fix it for plugins, right?

benji300 · 2021-11-04T21:55:35.714Z

hm... I guess you have set the background option to var(--joplin-background-color2), right?

I can confirm this behavior. The background can be updated by opening the settings menu.
Also changing the theme via the preferred light theme option, updates the background directly.

I can see that in case the system theme was updated the handled css variable --joplin-background-color2 is not updated. So this should be addressed to the app devs I guess.

Shamp0o · 2021-11-05T13:45:28.393Z

benji300:

hm... I guess you have set the background option to var(--joplin-background-color2) , right?

yeah, that's correct.
Thanks for looking into it.

@laurent is this something that could be fixed?

shbach · 2021-11-16T19:32:30.789Z

Came here to report this as well. This favorites plugin and the note tabs plugin have this issue. Should this be reported in as an issue in the Joplin github for greater visibility?

whitewall · 2021-12-23T02:27:03.073Z

After reading this post: Featrue requst of Trashbin - #4 by johano I thought it would be cool if it was possible to drag and drop notes onto a favorite that was a folder and have the note be moved into that folder.

Right now when I try and do this the result is just adding the note to the favorites bar, which of course makes sense.

artdupengyun · 2022-02-01T07:40:58.360Z

Really like this plugin, thanks for the constant updates. Currently there are some requirements for the management of collection objects, and I hope to do some enhancements.

I hope to be able to do multi-level management and implement a management function similar to hierarchical folders. It looks like this.
would like to be able to export the contents of the backup collection so that it can be imported in a new computer. (Although you mentioned the ability to export the contents of a backup collection in . /joplin-desktop/database.sqlite, but it's not convenient)

benji300 · 2022-02-12T17:14:28.975Z

I have already two open feature requests addressing your topics which you can upvote.

github.com/benji300/joplin-favorites

Suggestion: Sync favorites across clients

opened 10:08PM - 17 Aug 21 UTC

yodahome

enhancement

Hey there! This is merely a suggestion, as I don't know whether and how it co…uld be done but I couldn't find an issue here or a discussion about this on the forum so I'll just leave it here: I'd like to have my list of favorites synced along with my notes so I've got the same favorites on any client that has the plugin installed. I felt this was a very obvious feature tbh and was wondering why nobody seemed to have mentioned it so far. Or maybe they have and I missed that. Anyhow, maybe you can consider putting the faves in a note that is just synced along? Or something like this.

github.com/benji300/joplin-favorites

Support nested favorites

opened 06:26AM - 24 Jun 21 UTC

benji300

enhancement

Add the possibility to nest favorites like ``` FAVORITES - Any Parent Favorit…e - Sub Favorite 1 - Sub Favorite 2 - Another Parent Favorite - Another Sub Favorite ``` - Should work with any favorite type - To keep it simple and performant - Allow only ONE nesting level first - New favorites are always added on first level (easier to handle drag&drop) - Afterwards they can be changed to sub-favorites via the edit dialog where the parent can be selected from a dropdown From here: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/workflow-assistance-help-gtd/18080/21 ## Alternative solution Provide possibility to group favorites by type: ``` FAVORITES - NOTEBOOKS - Notebook 1 - Notebook 2 - NOTES - ... - TODOS - ... - TAGS - ... - SEARCHES - ... ``` - Add an option to select display style: `FLAT | GROUPED`

However, I can't tell you when or if I will implement these features. At least for the first one, I would wait for a general solution in the app. Instead of each plugin implementing its own solution.

artdupengyun · 2022-02-18T06:14:26.139Z

Thank you for your timely and attentive response.
Multi-level favorites, I personally envision that it is not just to save some temporary excellent notes, but can be extended as a way to manage them.
I want to use the save search function of this plugin to build a whole set of huge automatic search system, which can categorize and filter according to my pre-set rules, and can save these categorized filter conditions in a hierarchical way. For example, I want to search for notes that have both A and B but not C.
After that, I just need to create a new note, and use this multi-level preset search, just need to mouse to make a click, can quickly use these search criteria, to search for notes. I don't need to re-enter the complex and difficult to remember search criteria every time.
Of course considering the performance you are talking about, it may only need to be updated every once in a while, like once a day, or manually.
It might look something like this.

I look forward to your response regarding the feasibility of this idea.

bogdahn-fr · 2022-07-23T08:35:38.280Z

Hello,

Thank you a LOT for this pluggin, very efficient.

Have you progress to the sync functionality ? The Git repo seems to be inactive, did you drop the project or do you make a pause for some times ?

Thx !

itoldusoandso · 2022-11-20T23:09:56.048Z

Sorry if I am reviving an old thread but this is where I was sent to post directly from the help page for this plugin. As somebody mentioned earlier, this is a must have plugin for somebody coming from Evernote (along with History plugin, Agenda plugin, Hot folder plugin to name a few).

This plugin doesn't work for me well.

The other Note Tabs plugin works fine as expected.

But this one mostly doesn't. Most of the time it refuses to add the favorite and instead displays some strange message OK/CANCEL without giving any more details. But occasionally it works, on the same note, after a few tries, sometimes 3-5 times try, I get the empty box OK/CANCEL and then suddenly it works fine, on the same note.

This is a new installation of Joplin, have no data in it yet.

Also the favorite deletion dialogue could be improved because it doesn't say anything other than the buttons.

The last picture shows how it looks like when it works on the same note after trying it a few times.

Thank you for the effort put in this plugin. Much appreciated.

PS - what's up with this limit of only being able to send 1 picture per post in this forum. Is this limit set for newbies? Makes no sense. I have to combine different pictures into one when I am trying to explain something.

Joplin Version 2.8.8 (2.8.8)
The theme I am using is Blank theme from the official Joplin plugin repository. It offers better visibility so I prefer to use it. Maybe that could be the culprit why no text showing in the error box?

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nickzeff · 2023-09-16T13:33:19.721Z

So I am trying to write a plugin that toggles the visibility of the sidebar, the favourites panel and the notes list at the same time.. Sometimes I like to have just one big notes editor window visible only.

I've kind of succeeded, but whenever I make everything invisible, and then toggle it back to visibility, the layout gets reset. Anyone know how to fix this?

Here is my very simple code:

joplin.plugins.register({
	onStart: async function() {
        
		await joplin.views.toolbarButtons.create('toggleCustomButton', 'toggleCustom', 'noteToolbar');
		

        await joplin.commands.register({
            name: 'toggleCustom',
            label: 'Custom Toggle',
            iconName: 'fas fa-bullseye',
            execute: async () => {
				
				await joplin.commands.execute('toggleNoteList');
				await joplin.commands.execute('toggleSideBar');
				await joplin.commands.execute('favsToggleVisibility');



			}
        })
    },
});

This is what it looks like before toggling when everything is visible:

And then if I toggle them all invisible, and visible again, the panel height is reset:

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Anyone got any ideas if this can be fixed through code or CSS?

nickzeff · 2023-09-17T08:56:19.327Z

Re: One button to toggle on and off the sidebar, notes list and favorites

Hi all. In case anyone is interested, I managed to work out how to fix this. The current visibility of panels is held in a global setting, so I use that. I can't just use the existing toggle commands, because the order in which you make each panel visible and invisible is important, and different depending on whether you are toggling on or off!

If you happen to want a button which toggles the sidebar, notes list and favourites on and off, without screwing up the panel heights, you could save this js file somewhere and reference it in the Advanced Settings of your plugins.

Use at your own risk: Works for my layout, but if you are using any other fancy panels, may have unexpected results


/* joplin-manifest: 
{
	"manifest_version": 1,
	"id": "com.jeffries.customtoggle",
	"app_min_version": "1.4",
	"name": "Note list, sidebar and favorites toggle buttons",
	"description": "Add buttons to toggle everything",
	"version": "0.0.1",
	"author": "Nick Jeffries",
	"homepage_url": "https://joplinapp.org"
}
*/


joplin.plugins.register({
	onStart: async function() {
        
		function recurseFind(item, key) {
			
			if (item.key === key) return item;
	
			if (item.children) {
				for (const child of item.children) {
					const found = recurseFind(child, key);
					if (found) return found;
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	

		await joplin.views.toolbarButtons.create('toggleCustomButton', 'toggleCustom', 'noteToolbar');
		

        await joplin.commands.register({
            name: 'toggleCustom',
            label: 'Custom Toggle',
            iconName: 'fas fa-bullseye',
            execute: async () => {
				
				const userLayout = await joplin.settings.globalValue('ui.layout');

				const sideBarObject = recurseFind(userLayout,'sideBar');
				const noteListObject = recurseFind(userLayout,'noteList');
				const favBarObject = recurseFind(userLayout,'plugin-view-joplin.plugin.benji.favorites-favorites.panel');
				
				if (!sideBarObject || !noteListObject || !favBarObject) { 
					alert('Cannot toggle! Sidebar, Notelist or Favorites panel not found in layout!'); 
					return;
				}

				if (sideBarObject.visible) {
					// Sidebar is visible, so we need to hide everything in this order to avoid changes to panel height:
					if (favBarObject.visible) await joplin.commands.execute('favsToggleVisibility');
					await joplin.commands.execute('toggleSideBar');
					if (noteListObject.visible) await joplin.commands.execute('toggleNoteList');
				} else {
					// Sidebar is invisible, so we need to make visible in this order to avoid changes to panel height:
					await joplin.commands.execute('toggleSideBar');
					if (!favBarObject.visible) await joplin.commands.execute('favsToggleVisibility');
					if (!noteListObject.visible) await joplin.commands.execute('toggleNoteList');
				}

			}
        })
    },
});

hervehobbes · 2024-03-16T09:05:12.816Z

Hello,

Here is my information about Joplin:

Joplin 2.14.19 (prod, win32)
ID client : 49e8b5c0a27e4c7ea47133d561c692e5
Version de Synchro : 3
Version du profil : 46
Trousseau supporté : Oui
Révision : 971c4e5
Backup: 1.4.0
Favorites: 1.3.2

And thank you for this plugin.
I placed the favorites plugin on the left pane, juste after the list of notes:
And I'm a great user of F10 and F11 to get more space but when I use them, the plugin's panel is still visible:

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Is it possible to hide the favs panel automatically, when there's nothing visible on he left panel?

Thanks by advance.

nonobio · 2024-04-07T13:54:05.341Z

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem.

In the meantime I use the mouse: Tools: Favorites: Toogle favorites visibility
but it's not very practical.

If I understood correctly, it would be possible to add a new keyboard shortcut to this command?

In Tools: Options: Keyboard shortcut I don't see the toggle favorites command.

I then found this:

github.com/benji300/joplin-favorites

Toggle visibility with a keyboard shortcut?

opened 12:46PM - 27 Aug 21 UTC

v-marinkov

no issue

Hi, thanks for a great plugin! I noticed we can use keyboard shortcuts to add n…otes, notebooks and tags to Favorites but I couldn't see a way to toggle the visibility of the Favorites panel like any other panel. Am I missing something?

But not sure I understand: do I have to manually create a keymap-desktop.json file and add the favsToggleVisibility line and a shortcut?

It would be better than the mouse but it would be like 3 keyboard shortcuts to toggle the sidebar, favorites and notes list.

I also saw this that I will try:

joplinapp.org

Joplin Plugin: Note list and sidebar toggle buttons

Adds buttons to toggle note list and sidebar

and that:

nickzeff:

Re: One button to toggle on and off the sidebar, notes list and favorites
...Use at your own risk...

What is the easiest method to switch panels?

In the meantime, thank you very much for the favorites plugin