A unified sidebar plugin for Joplin that displays notebooks and notes together in a single tree view — like a file explorer.
TODO: Add screenshot
- Unified Tree View — Notebooks and notes displayed in one collapsible panel
- Custom Icons — Shows emoji icons set in notebook settings
- Search — Real-time filter to quickly find notes by title
- Sort — Toggle between sorting by update time or title (ascending/descending)
- Context Menus
- Notebooks: new note, new to-do, new sub-notebook, rename, export, delete
- Notes: open, open in new window, copy Markdown link, duplicate, switch note/to-do type, toggle completed, rename, move to notebook, view properties, delete
- Drag & Drop — Move notes between notebooks, reorganize folder hierarchy
- Sync Button — Trigger synchronization with status feedback (syncing → done)
- Auto Expand — Automatically expands to the currently selected note on startup
- Collapse All — One-click collapse all notebooks
- Scroll Position — Preserved when navigating between notes
- i18n — Supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English (follows Joplin's locale setting)
- Download
joplin-explorer.jplfrom the latest release - In Joplin, go to Tools → Options → Plugins
- Click the gear icon and select Install from file
- Choose the downloaded
.jplfile - Restart Joplin
After installation, the Explorer panel appears on the side of the editor. You can:
- Click a notebook to expand/collapse it
- Click a note to open it
- Right-click for context menu actions
- Drag notes or notebooks to reorganize them
- Use the toolbar at the top for quick actions (new notebook/note/to-do, sort, collapse all)
- Use the search bar to filter notes by title
- Click Sync at the bottom to trigger synchronization
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build
npm run dist
# Watch mode
npm run devThe built plugin is output to the publish/ directory. To test locally, set plugins.devPluginPaths in Joplin's settings to point to the publish/ directory.
MIT
