[Feature Request] Multiple notes; open in new tab

[xvol]

Operating system

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Application

• Desktop

I love Joplin and I use it extensively for many different purposes.

The one drawback I have found is, when you are jumping between notes, you must:

1. remember the name of the current note and current position in text.
2. search for secondary note; make changes
3. search previous note, and scroll to previous location.

Things get even more complicated if you want to work on 3+ notes in the same session.

I suggest that a tab-system would work wonders.
An implementation as in most text editors (Atom, Notepad++, etc) would simplify the application for users with many notes.

I think an intuitive mode of operation would be...

• Left clicking a note from the note-pane would update the current tab to the selected note.
  • Shift + click would open in a new tab
• Right clicking a note from the note-pane would include an option to open in a new tab

All tabs would ideally keep track of current position in text and scroll location.
Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!

[msbentley]

Agreed this would be great - it is a feature I really like about the 3rd party Evernote client NixNote. Often I am working with reference to several notes and want to easily switch between them. See below a snapshot of how it works in NixNote:

[xvol]

Agreed this would be great - it is a feature I really like about the 3rd party Evernote client NixNote. Often I am working with reference to several notes and want to easily switch between them. See below a snapshot of how it works in NixNote:

@msbentley looks great! This kind of implementation would take Joplin to a new level
NixNote is very clean wrt tabs; I hope we can implement something very similar

[nicolad]

Since Joplin is built on top of Electron, it is totally doable. I found this related package: https://github.com/brrd/electron-tabs
@laurent22 what's your thoughts on this and what implications it might have on overall architecture?

[xvol]

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[Perkolator]

@laurent22 Did you have time to review this request? This feature would be really great.