Hello development team, I am interested in contributing to Joplin and I was wondering if it would be feasible to incorporate the functionality of indenting text with the Tab key in the text editor of notes. Currently, the Tab key does not perform any action, and I believe that this feature would be…

Tab works for indentation when you're in the plain markdown mode without the preview pane. First select markdown (vs. rich text) from the button in the upper right corner of the editor. Then cycle to the plain markdown mode with another button (looking like [ | ]) in the top icon menu. Now tab doesn…

I'd also like to do this in the Rich Text Editor... I do not want to use Markdown and anything in MD for indents is a workaround. I really don't understand why this is such a problem with these apps. I understand that MD doesn't support indentation, but these are reasons why people want to use Ri…

I've opened a related pull request: Desktop: Rich Text Editor: Add eight spaces when pressing tab laurent22:dev ← personalizedrefrigerator:pr/desktop/tinymce-indent-with-tab opened 02:46AM - 16 Aug …

Tab key in the text editor of notes

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muzak 27 February 2024 00:35 2

Check out this Discourse thread and this Github issue for past discussions about this feature request.

Topic		Replies	Views
Tab button does not indent? Features	8	609	26 August 2025
Tab Key working in the Rich Text View Features	2	773	27 January 2021
Plugin: Space Indenter [v0.2.6] [2024-05-15] Plugins	9	2809	6 May 2025
Force tab to space conversion in editor Features	6	2909	1 July 2022
Tab key no longer does indet Support	0	60	29 July 2025

Tab key in the text editor of notes

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