Most users probably prefer the “new note” option to default to the last notebook they were in, and this is ok for the desktop version, since I typically have the time to first think about what notebook I want to add the note to first, but on iOS, I’d love it if the long press ‘new note’ didn’t automatically default to a particular notebook and would remain “uncategorized” (unless I take the type to assign it to a notebook.).
I’ll typically use the mobile version quick notes, and dislike them automatically going into notebooks I had previously been using. Not a real big deal, but it’d be nice to have the option in advanced settings “default new notes to uncategorized” or something like that.
A default notebook might be very useful for times when you "share" something with Joplin. Finding where the shared item was placed can be a challenge now, but having new notes always go into this default would be a real pain for me. I want my new note to go into the notebook I'm currently working in. I don't want to create a note and them have to move it, or be working in notebook "ABC" and have my new note end up elsewhere.
I don’t know how some sort of “quick note” could be implemented in Joplin. Any old text editor that saves locally would do a similar job and then share the notes with Joplin at a later time. What would be needed is a way to avoid the lengthy startup/sync time of Joplin.
Adding a new note with All Notes open (which isn't a notebook) makes the note end up elsewhere. Having an optional default notebook feature would fix that. For those who don't want a default notebook, selecting which notebook should contain the newly added note would prevent the issue. I look forward to when notes cannot be created in the ... notebook (when Conflicts was the last selected notebook) as a result. I think that's better than replicating how Trash prevents the issue by hiding or disabling the add buttons (which I'd argue Conflicts should do as well).
(Sorry, not sure how to delete this post, I replied to the wrong one of my posts. This thread is about iOS,but this post below refers to desktop . I’ll post it there, so someone can delete this.)
I just vibe coded this plugin in like 2 minutes. Not a line of code. Works well, just can’t figure out how to go about submitting it. If anyone wants to try until then it’s here https://github.com/rickcr/joplin-new-note-in-default Of course it could be enhanced. Right now I just hard coded the short cut to ctrl-o and defaulted a title “new note {time stamp}” You set the default folder you want in plugin options.