When experimenting with Joplin, for example when developing a plugin or trying a theme, you might want to run Joplin in development mode. Doing this will open a second copy of Joplin using a different profile with test notes and notebooks, so you can experiment without risking changing or deleting your data.
To enable Development Mode, go to Help > Copy dev mode command to clipboard. This will copy a command to your clipboard. Paste this command in a shell / terminal to run a development version of the app.
The manifest file is a JSON file that describes various properties of the plugin. If you use the Yeoman generator, it should be automatically generated based on the answers you've provided. The supported properties are:
This API is available when the clipper server is running. It provides access to the notes, notebooks, tags and other Joplin object via a REST API. Plugins can also access this API even when the clipper server is not running.
In order to use it, you'll first need to find on which port the service is running. To do so, open the Web Clipper Options in Joplin and if the service is running it should tell you on which port. Normally it runs on port 41184. If you want to find it programmatically, you may follow this kind of algorithm:
This tutorial will guide you through the steps to create a table of content plugin for Joplin. It will display a view next to the current note that will contain links to the sections of a note. It will be possible to click on one of the header to jump to the relevant section.
Through this tutorial you will learn about several aspect of the Joplin API, including:
Web Clipper now available on Firefox and Chromeπ
One of the most requested feature, the Web Clipper, is now available on the Firefox and Chrome store. It is possible to save a whole web page, or a simplified version of it, or a screenshot directly from the browser to Joplin. Like the rest of Joplin, the HTML page will be converted to Markdown, which means it can be easily edited and read even without a special viewer, and, since it's plain text, it also makes it easier to search and share the content.
New iOS release with improved attachment supportπ
The iOS version for iPhone, iPad and iPod sometimes lags behind the Android one due to the App Store release process being more complex. However it eventually catches up, as is the case with the latest release, which includes all the features and bug fixes from the past few months.
The new desktop version of Joplin for Windows, macOS and Linux features a new dialog box to view and edit the note properties, such as the updated date, created date, source URL or even location. It's a small change but it can be useful. This dialog can be accessed by clicking on the Information icon in the toolbar.
Reliability and stability is an important feature of Joplin as the application can potentially manage thousands of notes spanning many years (My oldest note, imported from another software, is from October 1999!). A stable interface without too many glitches also makes for a more pleasant user experience. For these reasons, bug fixes are always given high priority in this project, and are usually worked on before any new feature is added. The latest release for instance pretty much only contains bug fixes - eight of them, including one security fix.
Joplin is not bug free yet, there are still a few issues here and there, that sometimes depend on the user's hardware or configuration, and others that are hard to replicate or fix, but the app is getting there - more stable with each new release.
The Hacktobertfest event Β has started - it allows you to contribute to Joplin and, at the end of Β the month, after having done 5 PR, you'll earn a limited edition Β T-shirt.
Hacktoberfest has now ended - many thanks to all those who have contributed. Some of the pull requests are not merged yet but they will be soon. For information, this is the number of pull requests per month on the project, so there was approximately a 30% increase in October:
Joplin is now featured on PrivacyTools.io, a site dedicated to providing knowledge and tools to protect people's privacy against global mass surveillance. The app was kindly submitted by Mats Estensen on GitHub and accepted soon after.
Since day one the Joplin project has indeed been concerned with privacy - offering End To End Encryption and supporting open standards, including WebDAV for synchronisation. Setting up Joplin synchronisation can be more complicated than other existing note applications, but the advantage is that once it is done you 100% own the data and even the infrastructure if you use Nextcloud on your own server.
The original search engine in Joplin was pretty limited - it would search for your exact query and that is it. For example if you search for "recipe cake" it would return results that contain exactly this word in this order and nothing else - it would not return "apple cake recipe" or "recipe for birthday cake", thus forcing you to try various queries.
The last versions of Joplin include a new search engine that provides much better results, and also allow better specifying search queries.
The latest release includes two relatively important new features:
The first one, is the addition of several Markdown plugins that enable new features: for example it's now possible to add a table of contents to your notes, to enable footnotes, or to render various text decorations, such as superscript, subscript, highlighting, etc. This was all made possible thanks to the efforts of Caleb John.
Exactly one year ago, on 24 April 2018, the Joplin forum was created as a result of this post on GitHub. Before this, the only way to discuss the project was indeed on the GitHub bug tracker, which is not ideal for general discussion about features, development and so on.
After looking at various options, eventually we settled on Discourse, which provides a nice clean UI, works well on mobile, and is easy to manage. Even better, the Discourse team was kind enough to host the project for us for free, as part of their Free hosting program for open source projects. Not having to manage or pay for the server is great, and it means more time can be spent developing the application.
The latest versions of Joplin adds support for note history. The applications (desktop, mobile and CLI) now preserve previous versions of the notes, so you can inspect or restore them later on as needed.
A common complain with many sync-based note taking apps is that they work in an opaque way - sometimes notes are changed or they disappear and it's not clear why - it could be a user error, or some bug, but regardless it makes it hard to trust the app with thousands of notes. So this feature give transparency over what's happening - if some note seems to be gone or changed when it shouldn't, the redundant data allows investigating the issue and restoring content.
Changing attachment download behaviour to save disk spaceπ
One issue that came up frequently in the forum is that Joplin's data can be very large, especially when the note collection includes many attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). This happens in particular when using the web clipper a lot, as each web page usually has many images included.
The recent versions of Joplin (Desktop, mobile and CLI) attempt to mitigate this issue by providing an option to change how attachments are downloaded during synchronisation.
An issue however is that it is difficult to know what CSS to write and how to select specific elements with CSS. The development tools that were just added allow figuring this out. They are available under the menu Help > Toggle development tools.
Joplin now supports Fountain screenwriting markup languageπ
Fountain is markup language for screenwriting. Similar to Markdown, it is a lightweight markup format, which allows editing screenplays in plain text.
The desktop and mobile Joplin applications now support Fountain, allowing you to write and read your screenplays on your computer or on the go. To add a Fountain screenplay to a note simply wrap it into a fenced block, with the "fountain" identifier. For example:
The Joplin icon is going to change soon. The one we have now is something I put together quickly, not knowing if the project would interest someone, so I didn't want to spend too much time on it. Now that the project is more mature, it makes sense to start improving the visuals - first the icon, then the logo font, the website and finally the app UI (although these have already been improved little by little over the past year).
Before picking an icon, I'd be interested to hear about your feedback and whether you have a preference among those below. They all share the same idea - which is something that looks like a note, and that contains a "J" too.
The quest for a new Joplin icon Β continue - first many thanks for the votes and feedback! It definitely Β helped getting a better sense of what would make a great icon.
Taking all this into account, the remaining candidates are the 5 Β following icons. The first three were the top voted icons, and the Β following two are based on the feedback here and on the forum.
Joplin is looking into joining Google Summer of Code in 2020π
Joplin is looking into joining Google Summer of Code next summer. The application period as organisation is expected to happen in the second half of January 2020. Until then Joplin hopes to have multiple active discussion and may even have some easy commits in regard to the application and potential projects.
GSoC 2020: Joplin has been accepted as a mentor organization!π
Good news, our Google Summer of Code 2020 application has been accepted!
Since we made the announcement back in November, we already had a few students submitted pull requests and getting themselves familiar with the codebase.
I haven't kept up with releases lately and thus the new one is quite big, it includes 8 new features, 3 security fixes, 19 improvements, and 29 bug fixes. Here's a summary of what to expect:
The latest pre-release of Joplin (v1.0.194) includes a new WYSIWYG editor, a prototype for now, but a first step towards integrating this feature into Joplin.
Joplin informal encryption and security audit resultsπ
Joplin encryption, and in particular the E2EE system used during synchronisation, was recently audited by Isaac Potoczny-Jones, CEO of Tozny and this is what he had to say:
The Web Clipper is a browser extension that allows you to save web pages and screenshots from your browser. To start using it, open the Joplin desktop application, go to the Web Clipper Options and follow the instructions.
A conflict happens when one note or one attachment is modified in two different places, and then synchronised. In that case, it not possible to determine which version of the note or attachment you want to keep, and thus a conflict is generated.
Donations to Joplin support the development of the project. Developing quality applications mostly takes time, but there are also some expenses, such as digital certificates to sign the applications, app store fees, hosting, etc. Most of all, your donation will make it possible to keep up the current development standards.
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system where only the owner of the data (i.e. notes, notebooks, tags or resources) can read it. It prevents potential eavesdroppers - including telecom providers, internet providers, and even the developers of Joplin from being able to access the data.
The system is designed to defeat any attempts at surveillance or tampering because no third party can decipher the data being communicated or stored.
The installer may get stuck if the app was not uninstalled correctly. To fix the issue you will need to clean up the left-over entry from the Registry. To do so please follow these steps:
2020 is Joplin first round at Google Summer of Code. Detailed information on how to get involved and apply are given in the general Summer of Code introduction
These are all proposals! We are open to new ideas you might have!! Do you have an awesome idea you want to work on with Joplin but that is not among the ideas below? That's cool. We love that! But please do us a favour: Get in touch with a mentor early on and make sure your project is realistic and within the scope of Joplin.
Joplin has a young but well proven history. It all started by single idea but is rising more and more commitment as well as demands.
Joplin is about to make another big step to answers these demands by applying at Google Summer of Code. All students and Joplin users and developers are welcome to participate in the hopefully first year Summer of Code program with Joplin. Here's how.
2021 is Joplin second round at Google Summer of Code. Detailed information on how to get involved and apply are given in the general Summer of Code introduction
These are all proposals! We are open to new ideas you might have!! Do you have an awesome idea you want to work on with Joplin but that is not among the ideas below? That's cool. We love that! But please do us a favour: Get in touch with a mentor early on and make sure your project is realistic and within the scope of Joplin. Just make sure your idea is within this year's theme:
A plugin that will allow pasting special text into Joplin and have it converted to Markdown. For example, paste an Excel or CSV table, and have it converted to a Markdown table. Paste some HTML or PDF text and again have it converted to formatted Markdown. This could be one plugin, or a collection of plugins, one for eadch "paste special" operation.
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A plugin that will allow pasting special text into Joplin and have it converted to Markdown. For example, paste an Excel or CSV table, and have it converted to a Markdown table. Paste some HTML or PDF text and again have it converted to formatted Markdown. This could be one plugin, or a collection of plugins, one for each "paste special" operation.
Expected Outcome: One or more plugins that allow pasting special text.
Difficulty Level: Normal
Skills Required: JavaScript, Markdown, HTML, and knowledge of various text file formats (PDF, RTF, HTML, etc.)
Joplin has a young but well proven history. It all started by single idea but is rising more and more commitment as well as demands.
Joplin is about to make another big step to answers these demands by applying at Google Summer of Code. All students and Joplin users and developers are welcome to participate in the hopefully second year Summer of Code program with Joplin. This year the main themes will be:
External desktop applications - build external Joplin applications by retrieving, creating or modifying notes via the Data API.
External server applications - leverage the Joplin Server API to provide online features to Joplin users.
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Mentors, administrators and students: read Summer of Code occasionally. Also read the Summer of Code FAQ.
-Most IMPORTANT, read this page carefully, line by line. We don't want to quote pharagraphs from this page answering question in the forum.
-Moreover, watch/subscribe the topic GSoC 2021 live blog as this page here contains rather static content whereas the mentioned topic is updated much more frequently.
Please read this page carefully as most likely it will have all the answers to the questions you might have, such as how to build the app, how to contribute and what are the rules for submitting a pull request.
All participants will need a Google account in order to join the program. So, save time and create one now. In addition, all participants need to join the Joplin Forum.
Students wishing to participate in Summer of Code must realize, that this is a important professional opportunity. You will be required to produce applicable and readable code for Joplin in 3 months. Your mentors, will dedicate a portion of their time to mentoring you. Therefore, we seek candidates who are committed to helping Joplin and its community long-term and are willing to both do quality work, and be proactive in communicating with your mentor(s).
Due to our limited resources and in order to give everyone a chance to submit a pull request, we have put restrictions in place this year. If you want to submit a pull request, please take into account the following rules:
If you are borrowing code, please disclose it. It is fine and sometimes even recommended to borrow code, but we need to know about it to assess your work. If we find out that your pull request contains a lot of code copied from elsewhere, we will close the pull request.
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All pull request must have test units. If for some reason it is not possible to add tests, please let us know and explain why. In that case, you'll need to tell us what steps you followed to manually test your changes.
No Work In Progress. ONLY completed and working pull requests, and with test units, will be accepted. A WIP would fall under rule 3 and be closed immediately.
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Please do not @mention contributors and mentor and do not ask for pull request reviews. Sometimes it takes time before we can review your pull request or answer your questions but we'll get to it sooner or later. @mentioning someone just adds to the pile of notifications we get and it won't make us look at your issue faster.
Do not force push. If you make changes to your pull request, please simply add a new commit as that makes it easy for us to review your new changes. If you force push, we'll have to review everything from the beginning.
Make a screening of available options of how apps to be utilized to organize documentation better and simplified access to information.
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Joplin has a young but well proven history. It all started by single idea but is rising more and more commitment as well as demands.
Joplin is about to make another big step to answers these demands by being an organization at Google Summer of Code 2020.
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Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.
Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported.
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When syncing with OneDrive, Joplin creates a sub-directory in OneDrive, in /Apps/Joplin and read/write the notes and notebooks from it. The application does not have access to anything outside this directory.
In the desktop application or mobile application, select "OneDrive" as the synchronisation target in the Configuration screen. Then, to initiate the synchronisation process, click on the "Synchronise" button in the sidebar and follow the instructions.
In the terminal application, to initiate the synchronisation process, type :sync. You will be asked to follow a link to authorise the application (simply input your Microsoft credentials - you do not need to register with OneDrive).
In the desktop application or mobile application, select "AWS S3 (Beta)" as the synchronisation target in the Configuration screen.
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AWS S3 Bucket: The name of your Bucket, such as joplin-bucket
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AWS S3 URL: Fully qualified URL; By default this should be https://s3.amazonaws.com/
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AWS key & AWS secret: IAM user's programmatic access key. To create a new key & secret, visit IAM Security Credentials.
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While creating a new Bucket for Joplin, disable Bucket Versioning, enable Block all public access and enable Default encryption with Amazon S3 key (SSE-S3).
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To add a Bucket Policy from the AWS S3 Web Console, navigate to the Permissions tab. Temporarily disable Block all public access to edit the Bucket policy, something along the lines of:
Joplin supports end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on all the applications. E2EE is a system where only the owner of the notes, notebooks, tags or resources can read them. It prevents potential eavesdroppers - including telecom providers, internet providers, and even the developers of Joplin from being able to access the data. Please see the End-To-End Encryption Tutorial for more information about this feature and how to enable it.
For a more technical description, mostly relevant for development or to review the method being used, please see the Encryption specification.
Markdown is a simple way to format text that looks great on any device. It doesn't do anything fancy like change the font size, color, or type β just the essentials, using keyboard symbols you already know. Since it is plain text, it is an easy way to author notes and documents and when needed it can be converted to a rich text HTML document.
Joplin desktop and mobile applications can display both the Markdown text and the rendered rich text document.
Joplin has support for note history. The applications (desktop, mobile and CLI) now preserve previous versions of the notes, so you can inspect or restore them later on as needed.
A common complain with many sync-based note taking apps is that they work in an opaque way - sometimes notes are changed or they disappear and it's not clear why - it could be a user error, or some bug, but regardless it makes it hard to trust the app with thousands of notes. So this feature give transparency over what's happening - if some note seems to be gone or changed when it shouldn't, the redundant data allows investigating the issue and restoring content.
The desktop app has the ability to extend beyond its standard functionality by the way of plugins. These plugins adhere to the Joplin plugin API and can be installed & configured within the application via the Plugins page of the Settings menu (Windows/Linux: Tools > Options > Plugins; macOS: Joplin > Preferences). This menu allows the manual installation of the plugin using the single 'Joplin Plugin Archive' (*.jpl) file. Once the application is reloaded the plugins will appear within the plugins menu where they can be toggled on/off or removed entirely.
Pre-releases are available for the desktop application. They are pretty much like regular releases, except that they have not yet been tested by many users, so it is possible that a bug or two went through.
You can help the development of Joplin by choosing to receive these early releases when updating the application. If you find any bug or other issue, you may report it on the forum or GitHub.
The Joplin applications, including the Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux applications, do not send any data to any service without your authorisation. Any data that Joplin saves, such as notes or images, are saved to your own device and you are free to delete this data at any time.
If you choose to synchronise with a third-party, such as OneDrive or Dropbox, the notes will be sent to that account, in which case the third-party privacy policy applies.
TLDR: Avoid using Markdown plugins if you primarily intend to use the Rich Text editor, and be aware of the editor's limitations.
At its core, Joplin stores notes in Markdown format. Markdown is a simple way to format text that looks great on any device and, while it's formatted text, it still looks perfectly readable in a plain text editor.
Encrypted data is encoded to ASCII because encryption/decryption functions in React Native can only deal with strings. So for compatibility with all the apps we need to use the lowest common denominator.
The plugin system assumes a multi-process architecture, which is safer and easier to manage. For example if a plugin freezes or crashes, it doesn't bring down the app with it. It also makes it easier to find the source of problem when there is one - eg. we know that process X has crashed so the problem is with the plugin running inside. The alternative, to run everything within the same process, would make it very hard to make such a diagnostic. Once a plugin call is frozen in an infinite loop or crashes the app, we can't know anything.
Joplin Server is essentially a file hosting service and it allows sharing files via public URLs. To do so, an API call is made to /api/shares with the ID or path of the file that needs to be shared. This call returns a SHAREID that is then used to access the file via URL. When viewing the file, it will display it according to its mime type. Thus by default a Markdown file will be displayed as plain text.
This documentation is meant to provide a high level overview of delta sync API. Exact technical details might change over time and would be documented separately in an API doc.
Delta sync provides an API end point that gives a list of the latest change events since a particular point. At a high level, it works like so:
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified with your own text editor.
Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported.
The notes can be synchronised with various targets including the file system (for example with a network directory), Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive or WebDAV. When synchronising the notes, notebooks, tags and other metadata are saved to plain text files which can be easily inspected, backed up and moved around.
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which helps you write and organise your notes, and synchronise them between your devices. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Joplin is available as a π» desktop, π± mobile and π‘ terminal application.
The notes in this notebook give an overview of what Joplin can do and how to use it. In general, the three applications share roughly the same functionalities; any differences will be clearly indicated.
Joplin was designed as a replacement for Evernote and so can import complete Evernote notebooks, as well as notes, tags, images, attached files and note metadata (such as author, geo-location, etc.) via ENEX files.
One of the goals of Joplin was to avoid being tied to any particular company or service, whether it is Evernote, Google or Microsoft. As such the synchronisation is designed without any hard dependency to any particular service. You basically choose the service you prefer among those supported, setup the configuration, and the app will be able to sync between your computers or mobile devices.
The first few notes should have given you an overview of the main functionalities of Joplin, but there's more it can do. See below for some of these features and how to get more help using the app:
Joplin values your privacy and security by giving you complete control over your information and digital footprint.
Joplin applications do not send any data to any service without your authorisation. Any data that Joplin saves, such as notes or images, are saved to your own device and you are free to delete this data at any time.