Joplin Random Note

The plugin opens a note at random from your vault, after installing the plugin you can create a custom hotkey that opens a note at random, or use the defualt hotkey Ctrl+Alt+R

Table of contents

- Installation
- Usage
- Development
- Building the plugin
- Roadmap
- License

Installation

- Open Joplin and navigate to Preferences > Plugins
- Search for Random note and click on install
- Restart Joplin to enable the plugin

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- Open Joplin and navigate to Tools > Options > Plugins
- Search for the Random Note plugin
- Press Delete to remove the plugin completely
- Alternatively you can also disable the plugin by clicking on the toggle button
- Restart Joplin

Usage

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By defualt you can use the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+R to open a random note

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Click on the 🔀 icon to open a random note

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- Open Joplin and navigate to Preferences > Plugins Settings
- Select Random Note, you will find the following options
- Show Tool Bar Button Shows Random Note icon on tool bar for quick shortcut to open random note
- Use Custom Hotkey Select this option if you want to use a custom hotkey to open random notes
- Enter Custom Hotkey Enter your custom Hotkey
- Click Apply when done, and restart Joplin for changes to take effect

Development

The npm package of the plugin can be found here.

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

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- Open Joplin Configuration > Plugins section
- Under Advanced Settings, add the plugin path in the Development plugins text field.
- This should be the path to your main plugin directory, i.e. path/to/your/root/plugin/directory.

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To update the plugin framework, run npm run update`.

Roadmap

- [x] Open Random Note
- [ ] Open Tagged Random Note
- [ ] Open Random Note from Search

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Azamah Junior

MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.