# Plugin Favorites : a button or a shortcut in order to toggle the column?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [27 May 2025 11:12 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585 "2025-05-27T11:12:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/steph/32/17080_2.png) [@Steph](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Steph)\
**Post date:** [27 May 2025 11:12 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585/1 "2025-05-27T11:12:29Z")

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I still wonder...

> [@Plugin : FAVORITES](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites/31036):
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> Great plugin... Is there a button somewhere in order to toggle the panel ? [image] Something like these : [image]

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**Author:** ![Marph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/marph/32/10800_2.png) [@Marph](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Marph)\
**Post date:** [27 May 2025 15:05 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585/2 "2025-05-27T15:05:29Z")

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You might have more luck asking at the plugin's [thread](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/notebook-note-to-do-tag-search-favorites-plugin/14049) or [Github repo](https://github.com/benji300/joplin-favorites). It seems there wasn't activity for some time, though.

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**Author:** ![Steph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/steph/32/17080_2.png) [@Steph](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Steph)\
**Post date:** [27 May 2025 18:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585/3 "2025-05-27T18:39:30Z")

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I already had a look at the thread but not at the Github repo. And I found there a very usefull info... Something to try. Thanks a lot !!!

EDIT : And thanks to you I found a better solution to my need : I move the favorites column to the left (didn't know that was possible).

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/7/2/726866163e3b689c4c19f8312b3b809638bc2fa0.png)

Then : no more issues (e.g. arbitrary modification of the width of the column) ! No more need to toggle all the time !  
Cool...

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**Author:** ![Steph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/steph/32/17080_2.png) [@Steph](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Steph)\
**Post date:** [27 May 2025 22:35 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585/4 "2025-05-27T22:35:27Z")

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I succeed to create a shortcut to toggle the Favorites panel with the keymap file.

They say:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/3/d/3dde7b9cdac927b3cc9dd0c30fbe3697def198b4.png)

So the variable is "favsToggleVisibility".

The path of the keyboard-desktop.json of the profile is found there:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/9/7/9701afa8a60d52dc9a50e1066234431d2a823792.png).

If there's no such a file we create it with "export"

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/f/8/f81d10db4a48b6f25bf7fc67be34a490198781ae.png)

I open it in a text editor (Kate for me)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/3/0/3056805a04747b7d43e0843bc90d7e96805b65c7.png)  
and edited it.

The block to add is:  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/b/3/b3299a52c79211a49e10fa5a91140e2b5dcecadf.png)  
I choose [F3] like shortcut.

I import the keymap file in the profile.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/7/0/708e6278bd7f33cf38bd00ec5003e80b67dbb6b3.png)

The new line appears:  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/5/2/520143b9416d8b58c0a6dd1859caf1e59b3ca3be.png)

We have to restart Joplin one time or more.

Et voilà...

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [22 May 2026 22:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-favorites-a-button-or-a-shortcut-in-order-to-toggle-the-column/45585/5 "2026-05-22T22:36:21Z")

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