What's new in Joplin 2.13

personalizedrefriger · 2023-12-06T02:37:29.493Z

So, other than the accessability, is there any reason for a non-mobile user (or non-mobile plugin users) to switch. I ask because switching to the beta loses all of my custom css (which I understand was never guaranteed to last).

Here's a non-exhaustive list of changes:

Keyboard shortcuts

Bold/italicize/code shortcuts act more like they do in a WYSIWYG editor. For example, if | denotes the cursor:
- Pressing ctrl-b: **bold|** -> **bold**|
- Pressing ctrl-`: `co|de` -> code| (all selected).
Pressing ctrl-` twice creates a code block (rather than toggling inline code twice)
The Vim keyboard mode supports copy/paste through the "+ register

Autocomplete

Ordered lists auto-renumber in some circumstances.
HTML tags autocomplete: typing <p>| autocompletes to <p>|</p> (where | is the cursor).

Find

The find/replace dialog has replace.
It's style is still the CodeMirror 6 default --- changing the style of the dialog is planned.

Syntax highlighting

In CodeMirror 5, it was necessary to add markdown="1" to HTML elements to get markdown syntax highlighting inside of them. For example,

<div>

In CM5, `markdown` here is **not** highlighted. However, it is in CodeMirror 6.

</div>

This matches Joplin's rendering in the viewer.

jb261 · 2023-12-06T03:01:31.926Z

I see the beta editor does break some of the functionality of @CalebJohn's Rich Markdown plugin; e.g., CTRL + left click to mark a checkbox doesn't work in beta editor. But I guess this is to be expected.

Smhearty · 2023-12-06T20:30:38.163Z

Do we know when this will hit the App store? I'm looking forward to the released. Current release on the App Store is 12.12.3 from 2 months ago.

Thanks for all the hard work.

danielw2904 · 2023-12-06T20:51:28.297Z

@laurent mentioned that it’s under review so depends on Apple.

karl1 · 2023-12-06T21:21:36.985Z

I had a bunch of my plugins quit working--Quick Links, for example. I had to downgrade. Did anyone else have these problems?

personalizedrefriger · 2023-12-06T21:29:15.717Z

Quick links works for me! Make sure the beta editor is disabled (Settings > General > Un-check "opt in to the editor beta").

(It should be disabled by default).

whitewall · 2023-12-06T22:10:40.434Z

laurent:

One of the main addition is support note list plugins - it allows any plugins to customise what the list should display each note.

Is there any chance that this change will ever allow the changing of the height for note list items? I realize it may be totally unrelated, but customizing this has been a long sought after feature. For example using something like

.notes div, .note-list-item-wrapper {
	height:inherit!important
}

karl1 · 2023-12-06T22:32:29.205Z

worked. Sorry! I wanted to try the new editor, but it screwed up my zettlekasten plugins.

laurent · 2023-12-06T22:35:02.125Z

With this update the whole list can be customised via plugins, including the item height

jb261 · 2023-12-07T00:23:09.792Z

What needs to happen for the plugins to play nicely with the beta markdown editor?

personalizedrefriger · 2023-12-07T00:37:56.657Z

We have a compatibility layer to (partially) support plugins written for CodeMirror 5 plugins. However, there are large parts of the CodeMirror 5 API that it doesn't support.

Issues with plugin support in the beta editor are being tracked on GitHub.

whitewall · 2023-12-07T08:14:47.310Z

laurent:

including the item height

That would be awesome. Thanks for all your work. Hopefully someone picks this up. It will be exciting to see all the things people come up with.

HarSel · 2023-12-07T12:45:53.926Z

Would this permit the note listing to have thumbnails such as Nevernote? Take Note Overview and apply it to the listing rather than as a note on its own?

laurent · 2023-12-07T15:02:04.131Z

It allows creating "left to right" note lists with items of arbitrary sizes, so square for example. And then you can add images or text so you can create thumbnails and previews of the note content.

I'm not sure what you mean about Note Overview, is that an Evernote feature?

Herve5 · 2023-12-07T21:20:46.698Z

On the 'downloads' page, the link Android apk that one can get directly outside the Google market still points to the old (2.12...)
After some despair I found that in fact it's only that url in the download page that wasn't updated.
I copied it, edited the text to replace the version 2.12... with 2.13... and loaded the resulting url, and the right apk did download.
So : solved for me, but @laurent you may wish to update the webpage

HarSel · 2023-12-07T21:46:16.092Z

Note Overview, Jack Gruber's plugin for Joplin that gives a thumbnail and other things for all the notes in a notebook.

MxO2204 · 2023-12-08T10:23:40.546Z

As we have improvements now in tables, would we see calculation functions in the tables?
I know there was a plugin available in the past, but seems no longer working. Any idea?

laurent · 2023-12-10T14:10:09.280Z

Do you have an example of what you mean by calculation functions in tables? That sounds a bit like Excel, which would be out of scope, unless you mean something else

jb261 · 2023-12-10T14:55:27.005Z

MxO2204:

As we have improvements now in tables, would we see calculation functions in the tables?
I know there was a plugin available in the past, but seems no longer working. Any idea?

JSheets was working last time I used it. Maybe you are referring to a different plugin?

A plugin to write excel like sheets in Joplin Plugins

Hi there Joplin community Intro: I compared various note-taking apps and Joplin turned out to be my favorite by far, even tho' it's lacking features, being open source and able to add them myself was what made Joplin win the competition. (although it was hard to find somehow, it does not appear on the different mobile stores or on google when searching for note-taking apps) What? I was missing the ability to write excel-like sheets in Joplin. So I create the JSheets plugin which you …

MxO2204 · 2023-12-11T09:49:54.476Z

I mean a simple "SUM" function for example to add some cells in a column or a percentage calculation in a Joplin table. Not the full Excel functionality.