diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/plugins/GotoAnything.tsx b/packages/app-desktop/plugins/GotoAnything.tsx
index 97ddb90b4..55aabd1cd 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/plugins/GotoAnything.tsx
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/plugins/GotoAnything.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ const { surroundKeywords, nextWhitespaceIndex, removeDiacritics } = require('@jo
 const { mergeOverlappingIntervals } = require('@joplin/lib/ArrayUtils.js');
 import markupLanguageUtils from '../utils/markupLanguageUtils';
 import focusEditorIfEditorCommand from '@joplin/lib/services/commands/focusEditorIfEditorCommand';
+import Logger from '../../lib/Logger';
+
+const logger = Logger.create('GotoAnything');
 
 const PLUGIN_NAME = 'gotoAnything';
 
@@ -381,7 +384,7 @@ class Dialog extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
 			}
 
 			// make list scroll to top in every search
-			this.itemListRef.current.makeItemIndexVisible(0);
+			this.makeItemIndexVisible(0);
 
 			this.setState({
 				listType: listType,
@@ -394,6 +397,17 @@ class Dialog extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
 		}
 	}
 
+	private makeItemIndexVisible(index: number) {
+		// Looks like it's not always defined
+		// https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/5184#issuecomment-879714850
+		if (!this.itemListRef || !this.itemListRef.current) {
+			logger.warn('Trying to set item index but the item list is not defined. Index: ', index);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		this.itemListRef.current.makeItemIndexVisible(index);
+	}
+
 	async gotoItem(item: any) {
 		this.props.dispatch({
 			pluginName: PLUGIN_NAME,
@@ -517,7 +531,7 @@ class Dialog extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
 
 			const newId = this.state.results[index].id;
 
-			this.itemListRef.current.makeItemIndexVisible(index);
+			this.makeItemIndexVisible(index);
 
 			this.setState({ selectedItemId: newId });
 		}