Joplin Combine notes

Plugin to combine one or more notes to a new one.

Installation

Automatic

• Go to Tools > Options > Plugins
• Search for combine-notes
• Click Install plugin
• Restart Joplin to enable the plugin

Manual

• Download the latest released JPL package (io.github.jackgruber.combine-notes.jpl) from here
• Close Joplin
• Copy the downloaded JPL package in your profile plugins folder
• Start Joplin

Usage

• Select multiple notes to be combined into a new one
• Click on Tools > Combine selected notes or use the command Combine selected notes from the context menu

Options

Go to Tools > Options > Combine notes

• Create combined note as to-do: New note is created as To-Do. Default false
• Delete combined notes: Delete combined notes, after note creation. Default false
• Preserve Source URL: The source URL will be added to the new note. Default false
• Preserve Created Date: The Created Date will be added to the new note. Default false
• Preserve Updated Date: The Updated Date will be added to the new note. Default false
• Preserve Location: The Location (Latitude, Longitude, Altitude) will be added to the new note. Default false
• Metadata Prefix: The entered text is output before the metadata (URL, Date, Location).
• Metadata Suffix: The entered text is output after the metadata (URL, Date, Location).

Keyboard Shortcuts

Under Options > Keyboard Shortcuts you can assign a keyboard shortcut for the following commands:

• Combine selected notes

Build

To build your one version of the plugin, install node.js and run the following command npm run dist

Updating the plugin framework

To update the plugin framework, run npm run update

Changelog

v1.0.1 (2021-08-05)

• Improved: Use registerSettings instead of deprecated registerSetting

❗ Requires at least Joplin v1.8.1 ❗

v0.2.2 (2021-05-16)

• Improved: Use Joplin date and time settings
• Add: Option for combine date

v0.2.1 (2021-01-11)

• Fix: Display Name

v0.2.0 (2021-01-09)

• Option added to create the combined note as a to-do
• Option added to preserve metadata (Source URL, Creation Date, Updated Date, Location)
• Option added to delete combined notes

v0.1.0 (2021-01-08)

• First version

Links

• Joplin - Getting started with plugin development
• Joplin - Plugin API reference
• Joplin - Data API reference
• Joplin - Plugin examples