# What features did you like in 2023 and what do you want to see in 2024?

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**Created:** [30 December 2023 11:30 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/what-features-did-you-like-in-2023-and-what-do-you-want-to-see-in-2024/34792 "2023-12-30T11:30:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 January 2024 15:28 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/what-features-did-you-like-in-2023-and-what-do-you-want-to-see-in-2024/34792/126 "2024-01-16T15:28:22Z")

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UPDATED: 2024-02-27  
I want to echo everyone else. Focus on polish (though I know you can't utterly ignore feature parity) and annoyances. There are a lot of crusty corners in the application. Tackle the annoyances. Tackle anything that is ugly or fragile. Tackle anything that takes far too many clicks or complicated processes. When I was a product manager many moons ago, we called these _broken window issues_. I.e., every cycle, we worked on the feature set of our products but gave _broken window_ items extra emphasis. Polish makes people happier.

The off-the-top-of-my-head annoyances (because I am not keeping a list, though I should). This is all for the desktop …

- some means to refresh Joplin's CSS cache, ref: [How do you force a joplin cache refresh?](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-do-you-force-a-joplin-cache-refresh/35482)
- the publish-a-note UI is simply weird and non-intuitive
  - … and give me a list of published notes! ref: [List of notes published to Joplin Cloud?](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/list-of-notes-published-to-joplin-cloud/36273)

- `File` \> `Export all` … all the export options are for the totality of your notes … except for `PDF - PDF File`. That's just weird. You need `Import`, `Export`, and `Export all` in that file menu. Yes, only one option to export to in that `Export` menu is just fine. Maybe someday we can export a solitary note to an additional format.
- Linux desktop: `File` \> `Export all` \> (any option) triggers an OS-window-manager level (like GNOME, for example) notification with an empty message and then opens a dialogue to save your PDF _beneath_ the Joplin UI.
- Linux desktop: `File` \> `Export all` \> (any option) always defaults to the home directory (doesn't remember where you saved it last)
- Linux desktop: `File` \> `Print` still doesn't work. It takes 20 to 30 seconds (on my machine) for the dialogue to appear (and no feedback during that wait), and then Joplin _still_ crashes when you attempt to actually print.
- Joplin notebook, note, curser tracking: I'd like Joplin to always remember where I was in a note and in a notebook. Of course, have a default behavior if you change that calculus by editing or deleting a note or notebook on another machine. If I close Joplin and open it again, start right back where I was before. If I use the back and forward carrots to navigate through notes I have been editing … remember where I was in every one of those notes (up to some limit, of course).
- Bug: every so often Joplin _still_ bounces that cursor around. It's a much rarer event now, though. Pesky little bugs, they are!
- Managing the viewports is a little wonky: If you have the navigator to the left, the notebook panel to the right of that, your editing viewport, and then some panel to the right of the editing viewport … resizing panels gets really awkward. The panel to the right seems to govern the behavior of everything else. This is just weird and kludgy.
- 10 and F11 are nice keystrokes to make those panels disappear, but why not have vertical collapse widgets on the borders?
- profile switching is weird and kludgy. To the point that I don't use it at all. I wish I could. I run three businesses and, of course, use Joplin for personal things. I would love to keep all those in their own domains. For now, top-level notebooks is how I do it. Improve profile switching, and I would use that instead.
- a `userstyles.css` equivalent for HTML notes. And wrap them in a `<div id="rendered-html" />` Ref: [this discussion](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/custom-css-doesnt-apply-to-rendered-html-only-rendered-markdown/5427/8).

Anyway, you get the drift. Fix things and improve things but with an emphasis on the stuff that lacks elegance. Reduce the incidence of _broken windows_.

That's just off the top of my head.

Note: to cushion the sting of my whining. I want to emphasize that I, too, am a very, VERY happy user of Joplin (and supporter via a Joplin Cloud subscription) and find it superior to everything else out there. Now, just make it more elegant and a joy for even non-geeks to use. 🙂

Cheers.  
-todd

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