Plugin: Journal

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Sorry if I did not use the correct name, but I meant the toolbar that also contains the "toggle editor layout" button and the "note property" button on the desktop app.

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@antoonvdr Ah, that's OK. I'll add this button later :grinning_face:, thanks for this suggestion!

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That would be awesome.
Perhaps also for the mobile version, so that the button appears like here:

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Thanks!!

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Sorry, I have no android device, I can't test this for mobile. But pull requests for this are welcome :sweat_smile:

45

Do we know what the approval process is for getting the mobile version of the plugin to become available for install?

(this is less of a question for @leenzhu because I think the work is done already, but the plugin does not appear when I try to add it on iOS mobile, so I hope someone on the Joplin team can answer!)

46

I wanted to use “Journal.” However, as far as I could try it out, one thing was missing.

The calendar only recognizes Journal notes if they follow a calendar format such as YYYY-MM-DD. If I add additional letters after that, it no longer works.

However, I would like to give the diary entry a title. That makes it easier to find.

E.g.

2025-07-29 Successfully tested the Journal plugin

You could also specify a fixed separator (colon or hyphen or ...) between the date and the text title.

Otherwise: Thanks to everyone who creates great plugins for Joplin :grinning_face:

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Totally agree on that - my journal entries also have text after the dat YYYY-MM-DDand when I manually move my existing notes to the folder structure from the journal notebook the plugin doesn’t register/know about such already existing notes.

I also have the problem that Joplin list the plugin with v2.0.0 :thinking: ? I’ve tried to manually load the 2.3.0.jpl file and restarted Joplin but it stays at 2.0.0!

Shouldn’t line 5 here be 2.3.0? So

"version": "2.3.0",

instead of

"version": "2.0.0",

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Sorry for the mistake, I forgot to update the version in manifest.json since version 2.0.0.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll think about it latter.

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Hello everyone, it has been a long time since this plugin was last updated. Recently I made a few updates, and I hope they will be helpful:

  • Added new template variables: {{date}}, {{time}}, {{datetime}}, and {{decade}}
  • Template variables now work not only in note names, but also in inserted note content
  • Added a manual Insert Default Template action
  • Added support for matching journal notes with custom title suffixes
  • Improved the README documentation

Thank you for using the plugin.

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Edit - I was able to figure it out. Once I created a Journal entry from within the app, everything populated within the notebooks correctly. Anyway...Thank you for a great plugin!

I'm still a little new to Joplin, but so far love it. I do have a question about the Journal plugin. If I add a journal entry on the desktop, the journal only shows up in the "all notes" tab in the (android)mobile app, but does not show up in the year, or month notebook. Everything is correct in the desktop app though. Is there a setting that I am missing for this? Thank you for the plugin!

Nathaniel