I am considering moving to Jopin from EN, but the thumbnails feature of EN (in the Notes List) is very important to me. If a note contains an image, the Notes List view contains a thumbnail of the image. I have lots of notes that contain images. Anyway, I am also a software developer. I am expert in Java, less so with js and ts, but I'm sure I could handle it. My question is: how difficult do you think it would be to implement a simple thumbnail feature? The Notes List view would look at each note to see if there's an image, make a thumbnail of it, and show it on each item. I know this is a rather vague question, but I want to get a sense of whether I should bother trying. If it could be done in a week or so of hacking in my spare time (I have a full time job), that's probably worth trying. But if it is gonna take a month or more, I don't know... Oh, and I'm mostly talking about the Windows version of Joplin. Android too, but less important to me.
Thanks much,
Lee
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Was this ever done?
Or is there a plugin that adds this functionality?
I migrated from Evernote to Joplin, and this is one feature that I miss dearly.
Zeroing in on a document visually is much easier than sifting through text.
The Note list view of Snippets in Evernote makes this possible.
I solved this use case with the Notes Overview plugin. Details of how I did that are here: Thumbnail view - #16 by Elaborendum
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Thank you, very nice plugin.
I'm still trying to find a way that fits my typical usage (how I'm used to in EN)
I make a search either globally or when I select a Tag
The search filters the list,
And with snippets (excerpt) and image, it's very easy to zero in to the note that I need.
You think I can tweak this plugin to achieve that?
You can search by tag with the prompt
search: tag:tagname
There are examples in the ReadMe file for JackGruber's Note Overview plugin. GitHub - JackGruber/joplin-plugin-note-overview: A note overview is created based on the search and the specified fields.
Thanks for the follow up.
I'm sorry if I'm not clearly explaining what I'm looking for or I'm not understanding your suggestion.
I don't want to per-emptively create multiple Overview notes, as I don't know what I might need to be searching for ahead of time.
I have created an Overview of main Notebook, and it has the Images.
But if I want to filter that list, are you suggesting that I have to create another overview note? or edit the note?
Maybe I'm too used to EN,
Example: in EN I search for "My search string" and I see all notes with that string, in snippet view with images (and nothing else).
What would be the equivalent here?
Sorry if my questions are elementary, I'm too new to Joplin.
Thanks
I think I know what you are looking for. There is no equivalent of the EN snippet view in Joplin that I am aware of.
