Joplin Quick Move

Quick Move is a plugin to extend the UX of Joplin's desktop application.

It provides a collection of commands to quickly move notes to other notebooks without user interaction.

⚠️ CAUTION - Requires Joplin v1.8.2 or newer

Features

• Provides commands to quickly move notes to specified notebooks without interaction

Installation

Automatic (Joplin v1.6.4 and newer)

• Open Joplin and navigate to Tools > Options > Plugins
• Search for the plugin name and press install
• Restart Joplin to enable the plugin

Manual

• Download the latest released JPL package (*.jpl) from here
• Open Joplin and navigate to Tools > Options > Plugins
• Press Install plugin and select the previously downloaded jpl file
• Confirm selection
• Restart Joplin to enable the plugin

Uninstall

• Open Joplin and navigate to Tools > Options > Plugins
• Search for the plugin name and press Delete to remove the plugin completely
  • Alternatively you can also disable the plugin by clicking on the toggle button
• Restart Joplin

Usage

1. Install the plugin

2. Navigate to the settings/options view and select the Quick Move tab

3. Select notebooks for the quick move actions (to be used) to enable quick moving of notes

4. Assign keyboard shortcuts to the corresponding quick move action commands

Commands

This plugin provides additional commands as described in the following table.

Command Label	Command ID	Default Key	Menu contexts
Quick move action 1	quickMove1	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+1	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 2	quickMove2	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+2	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 3	quickMove3	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+3	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 4	quickMove4	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+4	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 5	quickMove5	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+5	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 6	quickMove6	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+6	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 7	quickMove7	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+7	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 8	quickMove8	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+8	Note>Quick move
Quick move action 9	quickMove9	CmdOrCtrl+Shift+9	Note>Quick move

Quickly move the selected note(s) to a predefined notebook. The notebooks can be defined in the user options.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can be assigned in user options via Tools > Options > Keyboard Shortcuts to all commands which are assigned to the Note menu context. In the keyboard shortcut editor, search for the command label where shortcuts shall be added.

User options

This plugin adds provides user options which can be changed via Tools > Options > Quick Move (Windows App).

NOTE - The notebook selection lists are only updated at startup. To display new or renamed notebooks, Joplin must be restarted.

Feedback

• ❓ Need help?
  • Ask a question on the Joplin Forum (TODO: Paste link to thread)
• 💡 An idea to improve or enhance the plugin?
  • Start a new discussion on the Forum or upvote popular feature requests
• 🐛 Found a bug?
  • Check the Forum if anyone else already reported the same issue. Otherwise report it by yourself.

Support

You like this plugin as much as I do and it improves your daily work with Joplin?

Then I would be very happy if you buy me a 🍺 or ☕ via PayPal 😉

Contributing

Contributions to this plugin are most welcome. Feel free to open a pull request or an issue. Make sure to use conventional commit messages if you're creating a pull request.

Development

The npm package of the plugin can be found here.

Building the plugin

If you want to build the plugin by your own simply run npm run dist.

Updating the plugin framework

To update the plugin framework, run npm run update.

Changes

See CHANGELOG for details.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Benjamin Seifert

MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.