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

crtkugrrvjy · 2024-03-19T20:43:17.706Z

Please let's not end up with a "ribbon" style UI though. Most UIs in recent years have made apps prettier to technophobes, but more difficult to use effectively.

In the current UI, I like that the right things are compact, the right things are spacious, the right things are easy to access and the right things are tucked away.

I honestly wouldn't want the UI to change significantly and certainly not in the way that other apps have "modernised".

Wimvan · 2024-03-20T06:17:10.087Z

2023 and right from my start of using Joplin before, I liked the alarms for to do‘s. It‘s the only way I can bring a task to my attention when it‘s due. Especially if it‘s a task dated in the future like „check insurance for cancellation in 12 months“.

For the same reason it would really be a real facilitation to have a proper and reliable implementation of repeating to do‘s. There are a lot of things to be done or considered in a monthly or longer rythm. Re-setting the alarm every time when a task pops up feels like a very inefficient process of clicking.
I see to do‘s as a basic feature in Joplin that deserves some attention to be improved. Just in a basic way, not like developing a fancy task managing tool.

mrschwarz · 2024-03-20T21:32:36.424Z

In Windows (or any other OS), I would like a small pop up or notification when a file is turned into a note using 'Hotfolder' plugin in. I'm not sure if that's a feature request for the plugin or Joplin.

rsbrux · 2024-04-05T07:40:03.419Z

I was surprised to find myself unable to print a note from Joplin (12.4.6) on my iPadPro (running iPadOS 17.4.1). The "Share" menu is much shorter than in any other app I have seen on iOS / iPadOS. Is there some reason why "Print" is missing?

Rando · 2024-04-05T17:21:50.141Z

New user. Loads of love so far... but I can only comment on what I'd love to see in the future and not on what was introduced:

On Android UI, the sync area is "stealing" precious space from the notebook side panel list, could the sync be moved to the top, or made it smaller?
On Android, several threads I've read recommend the "Caffeine" app to keep the screen on, could a "keep screen on" option being added natively in the Joplin mobile app, as a temporary quirk "fix" for the lack of background sync?
On Windows, being able to hide the title and menu bar. I am referring to the actual program top bars, nothing to do with the note titles... this would offer some extra space and less distraction
Integrate the Note list and sidebar toggle buttons plugin into the core, so that the buttons to toggle the panels can go also into their panels respectively?
CSS possibility to reduce the min-height of the plugin panel? it would be handy if using the "note tab" plugin, so one could make this as small and slick as possible
Include a high contrast dark mode theme. The ones available have all most text opacity value set to 0.something and the text is too small... I would highly consider including these themes in the core installation: theme 1 by Hrqmonteiro, theme 2 by AngelCrawford
On Evernote, you can paste a URL over a selected word or sentence, and it will create a link for you latched to that selected text. Pretty handy... could this be implemented?
Being able to know the total "items" that need syncing while syncing, instead of the numbers being incremented in groups of 50/100. Or at least an estimation of the total remaining time to complete the sync?

Also plus 1 for:

Favourite at the top of the notebook list
Including a modifiable CSS style sheet (or adding more classes to elements and a class list guide page to refer to, but probably even better may be to have more custom colour choices in the Joplin's option panel
Better overall mobile app
Better search
Being able to purge unused attachments
Obsidian style of removing Markdown code as you write to have MD looking more like a rendered view (Evernote does this pretty well, too IMHO)

I wish I was in the position to help with any of the requests, but I am not a programmer. I can only thank you once again for your help and offer to beta test something if you need it

Marph · 2024-04-05T21:24:28.126Z

Rando:

On Evernote, you can paste a URL over a selected word or sentence, and it will create a link for you latched to that selected text. Pretty handy... could this be implemented?

Just to pick out one - this was requested here:

Feature request: Fast links Features

Having the option to add "fast links" would be nice for markdown and WYSIWYG editor. It would make inserting links more convenient and faster. The workflow would be: Copy an URL Select text in the note body Paste the URL Instead of replacing the original text, a hyperlink is added References: A faster way to add links to text in Confluenc... - Atlassian Community GitHub - denolehov/obsidian-url-into-selection: Paste URLs into selected text "notion style"

Current workaround on desktop is to use Ctrl + K Ctrl + V.

Rando · 2024-04-05T21:44:20.290Z

Marph:

Ctrl + K Ctrl + V

I do use CtrlK/CtrlV already and can totally live with that... but "fast linking" is... yeah... faster. I was not aware the matter was already discussed, and did not even know the feature had a name... I'll keep an eye out on the thread you shared. Thanks

muzak · 2024-04-06T00:02:19.016Z

Thank you for your feedback. Here's some relevant info and workarounds to try:

Feature requests

Rando:

On Android UI, the sync area is "stealing" precious space from the notebook side panel list, could the sync be moved to the top, or made it smaller?

Agreed. I propose duplicating or moving the sync button as an icon button into the top bar in this post.

Rando:

On Android, several threads I've read recommend the "Caffeine" app to keep the screen on, could a "keep screen on" option being added natively in the Joplin mobile app, as a temporary quirk "fix" for the lack of background sync?

I'm on board if the benefits outweigh the risks. If background sync is critical, this app fork seems to work:

Background sync in android Features

I have complete my first prototype and push code to GitHub - wao/joplin: Joplin - an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Forum: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/ branch android_sync. I also upload prebuilt apk to: Release Release for android background sync at 0103 · wao/joplin · GitHub. You can try it at your own risk or you can build from source by yourself. It works great for me. I think it is enough for …

As they mention, try it at your own risk.

Rando:

On Windows, being able to hide the title and menu bar. I am referring to the actual program top bars, nothing to do with the note titles... this would offer some extra space and less distraction

Here's the latest progress on that: Desktop: Resolves #1752: New: Option to automatically hide the menu bar by tinyoverflow · Pull Request #9603 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

Plus ones

Rando:

Favourite at the top of the notebook list

Agreed. For now, try this cross-platform workaround:

Plugin "favorites" for android app? Features

Another workaround is creating a dedicated notebook for favorite notes. You can "pin" it at the top by prepending the title with punctuation. For example: _title, .title, etc. Otherwise, keep an eye on the mobile plugin support thread. I tried the Favorites plugin with the plugin-enabled Android APK from that thread. I could access the panel but haven't found any way to add notes to it.

You can also use the Favorites plugin or Note Tabs plugin above the notebook list on desktop, if either suits your needs.

Rando:

Including a modifiable CSS style sheet (or adding more classes to elements and a class list guide page to refer to, but probably even better may be to have more custom colour choices in the Joplin's option panel

Mobile style sheets would be nice. As for desktop, modifiable CSS files already exist: Introduction to customising Joplin (userchrome.css & userstyle.css)

Other helpful resources for desktop theming include but aren't limited to:

The Share your CSS thread
This ongoing class list guide
Most legacy CodeMirror styles, and
Default beta editor styles

Custom colors (for example: exposing :root color variables) in options could be neat, if not overwhelming. However, colors seem to be applied unexpectedly, at least for the Dark theme. I declared new :root variables for my custom style sheets instead.

Rando:

Better search

Try the VS-Code Style Note Search plugin for desktop searches. Try the Note Overview plugin for saving auto-updating search result lists or tables to reference on both desktop and mobile.

Other plugins serve similar functions.

Rando:

Being able to purge unused attachments

Pair desktop Joplin with the Check for unused resources utility. Follow setup instructions in the Home tab or on the joplin-batch-web website.

Rando · 2024-04-06T01:23:53.311Z

Hey muzak, thanks so much for taking the time to reply, and pass on all those precious info.

Android background sync: I don't think I want to mess around with prototypes just in case it will corrupt anything, Caffeine will do for now Having said that... I have a music android app with a "stay awake" button, I guess it wouldn't be too unorthodox to have such button? Maybe a warning pop-up could warn the user every time the option is checked saying "this feature can limit the lifespan of your display and battery, remember to lock your screen manually"?
Note Tab plugin: yup.... I have that one on already and would not live without it
Favourite plugin: tried it... but it seems to be slowing down the system a bit?
Userchrome.css & userstyle.css - Yup! I love it! I created my own custom theme, and I am thinking to share it on the Share thread you linked. What I was actually referring to is what whitewall and foto16 mentioned earlier on to make the process easier. Several classes are missing (I've seen some threads mentioning the issue), and I found it impossible to tweak some elements even with pseudo classes so far. Don't get me wrong... I am grateful that I can customise the theme already, not many software offer that. But perhaps at some point the Joplin install could include the main themes' style sheets as examples, so that a new user can have a better kickstart?
Joplin-batch-web - I did see that before and downloaded the vacum script, too, also read some threads regarding the orphan matter, what I meant is something more "automated" to get read of the orphan items that sometimes remain hanging in the local folder (especially when turning on/off the E2E encryption). Apparently cleaning that manually can compromise the syncing process, hence it makes me nervous to mess around with third party tools, I'd prefer Joplin taking care of it on its own... maybe some day?
Better search. The VSCode Style plugin is exactly what I felt was missing, and I was just echoing pilastr on that one. That is exactly what I need and I will certainly try the plugin out.

Thank you

Rando · 2024-04-06T01:31:16.897Z

Also... regarding the New: Option to automatically hide the menu bar that is great. So I guess there is some hope to see that implemented at some point. Fab

Rando · 2024-04-06T01:35:57.971Z

... Also n.2 ...then again I may actually end up trying out that "prototype" android app lol. This is great! Thanks again

muzak · 2024-04-06T02:29:41.590Z

You're welcome.

Android background sync: Maybe drop that app's name and a screenshot of the Stay Awake button in this thread: [mobile] Keep screen on button

Note Tabs plugin: Unless you meant the mobile plugin panel, I use this above the editor at minimum height on desktop.

CSS: I've seen mobile app color scheme customization come in two main flavors:

Theme modes (light, dark, OLED, etc.) and pickers for 1+ accent colors. For example: Material Design apps
Themes as JSON files that can be swapped and/or edited within the app. For example: KurobaEx and KurobaEx themes

If classes are missing, point them out so others can help. If a desired class doesn't exist, you can probably still select it somehow, and someone with wiki access could also update the class list guide.

Rando · 2024-04-06T03:04:01.611Z

Rando:

CSS possibility to reduce the min-height of the plugin panel? it would be handy if using the "note tab" plugin, so one could make this as small and slick as possible

Are you referring to this ?
If so... I think the plugin panel container (in general) may have a min-height set, which is preventing me to reduce the overall size of the tabs plugin, and I cannot override it. I'd like to make it just a handful of pixels shorter (probably 35px) but I could not manage with CSS. I can change the tabs' height (in developer mode only, no via style sheet), but I cannot make the plugin container that hosts the tabs smaller than 50px (or smth like that).

muzak · 2024-04-06T04:23:11.841Z

To shorten it, set Note Tabs height (px) to the desired tab height: let's say 30px. Then, add this CSS to userchrome.css:

.rli-plugin-view-joplin\.plugin\.note\.tabs-note\.tabs\.panel {
  min-height: 35px !important;
  height: 35px !important;
}

.rli-plugin-view-joplin\.plugin\.note\.tabs-note\.tabs\.panel > div {
  height: 30px !important;
}

.rli-plugin-view-joplin\.plugin\.note\.tabs-note\.tabs\.panel > div:nth-child(2) > div {
  top: 30px !important;
}

As shown above, use heights 5px taller than the tab height for the first rule. These prevent the editor from overlapping the note tabs container.

Rando · 2024-04-06T09:07:56.709Z

Thank you so much for this. It worked like a charm!

crtkugrrvjy · 2024-04-10T08:25:56.045Z

Publish to Join Cloud from mobile would be great too

crtkugrrvjy · 2024-04-10T08:44:48.109Z

Don't want to sidetrack this thread for too long, but you should try the DDDot plugin. Has favourites, recent note history (which for me is often serves the exact same purpose as note tabs - depends how many other notes you open between the important ones) and other useful bits all in a hideable sidebar

fort · 2024-04-10T09:25:14.243Z

New user and Cloud Pro subscriber here, and loving it. I'm really accustomed to using the iOS Share Sheet to send things to various apps, so I'd love to see that implemented for Joplin.

Rando · 2024-04-10T10:07:30.838Z

Wow, DDDot is great! Basically, combining DDDot and "Control+P" for searches, I could keep the stock side panels almost always collapsed. Also, I've set DDDot to collapse with F9, so it's only one shortcut, instead of two, to go to full editing view and back. Only the sync info would be missing from the view.
Only thing is... do you know a CSS code to force the width of the DDDot panel? It does not seem to remember the user settings when toggled back on after a collapse, which is unfortunate.

I've tried the following without success:

.resizableLayoutItem.rli-plugin-view-joplin-plugin-dddot-dddot\.panel {
    max-width: 250px !important;
    width: 250px !important;
}

muzak · 2024-04-10T21:29:40.212Z

Try this CSS to force a maximum panel width:

#plugin-view-joplin-plugin-dddot-dddot\.panel {
  max-width: 250px !important;
}