Plugin: Cockpit [v1.7.8, 2026-08-16]

[pmslava]

Cockpit is a single Joplin panel that gathers every to-do, every note, and the checkboxes inside them into one view, grouped by due date. I wrote it to replace the notes and notebooks sidebars: instead of two lists that tell you where things are stored, one panel that tells you what is due and when.

I kept losing work that was spread across notebooks — a to-do in one place, a checklist buried inside a note somewhere else. Cockpit puts all of it in front of you at once, so the panel is your plan and your whole archive at the same time. You switch it between an Overdue / Today / This Week rundown, a flat date list, a month calendar, or a week planner, depending on how you want to look at the day.

A few specifics:

• Save a set-up as a profile — its view, filters, search, and what counts as done — then switch profiles to switch the whole view.
• Narrow the list by notebook or by full Joplin search, with autocomplete for tag:, notebook:, and title:.
• Reschedule by dragging a to-do onto a day or a group, or open the alarm picker for an exact date and time.
• Recolour the panel to match Joplin or a built-in theme.

It runs on Android as well as desktop; there the pickers and the profile editor are drawn as touch-native overlays.

Install: in Joplin open Settings (Configuration on Android) → Plugins, search for Cockpit, and Install. It is the same on desktop and Android. To install by hand instead, grab the .jpl from the GitHub releases page and use Install from file.

Source, releases and issues: GitHub - pmslava/joplin-plugin-cockpit: Cockpit: a tasks-and-notes command center panel for Joplin - drag & drop due dates, calendar picker, progress rings, filters, view profiles · GitHub

Cockpit started as a fork of Agenda by BeatLink and TheScriptingGuy; the profile system and overview notes trace back to their work. The idea of pulling all your scattered work into one live view came from alondmnt's Inline Tag Navigator, though Cockpit builds it on Joplin's core to-do dates rather than inline tag syntax.

It is early, so if something is off or missing on your setup — desktop or Android — say so here and I will take a look.

[pmslava]

A few words on where this came from.

Long-time Joplin user here. I have loved Joplin since day one — encryption, open source, a choice of sync targets, every platform. And thanks to the AI era, I can finally give a little of that love back.

All these years, a few things kept bothering me:

1. Notebooks and notes are two separate sidebars, and together they eat a lot of space. There is no way to collapse the notebook list down to the one line that matters — the notebook you are working in — even though I usually work in one notebook at a time.
2. Joplin has to-dos and notes, but to see the to-dos as an agenda you need a separate plugin (my thanks to the Agenda authors credited above) — which then duplicates what the notes panel already shows.
3. There is a tag list, but when I want to search across several tags, nothing suggests which tags I actually have.
4. There was no way to set up view profiles for the to-do/note list — save them and switch between them quickly.

Cockpit is my attempt to fix all four at once: one panel that is the plan and the archive at the same time, as described above.

And to be honest about how it was built: this plugin is AI-written, under my direction. I know how contentious AI code is, I genuinely respect the work of real engineers, and I feel slightly awkward publishing this. But it seemed wrong to pass up the chance to build something new and convenient just because of how the tool feels. I hope I got it right — and that Cockpit becomes a daily driver for someone besides me. If you find things done wrong, I will take the criticism constructively and fix what needs fixing.

Everyone interested is welcome to test it and use it. Write your thoughts and comments — I will read them all with interest.

[Reexel]

Good job!
Can I group task in day by tags?

[pmslava]

You can filter notes by tags. To do this, enter tag:yourtag in the Search field. The field will also suggest which tags you have. Otherwise, it works like Joplin search.

[bwat47]

Looks interesting!

FYI, there are some css issue when using joplin's light theme:

[pmslava]

Thanks! I'll fix it soon.
UPD: It is fixed in version 1.7.6. Already live. Thanks for testing!