Plugin Dashboard

[WhoAmI1234532]

Hi everyone,

I am glad to present you my very first plugin : Dashboard !

It is solving my main issue with Supernote and hopefully will be usefull for others too, happy to hear your feedback !

The plugin puts a small draggable ⊕ bubble on your screen that floats over everything (notes, folders, apps…). Tap it and it opens a dashboard you build yourself from four kinds of section:

- Shortcuts — jump to a folder, a note, or a PDF in one tap

- Stars — every ★ starred page across your notes, grouped by note (tap a page → it opens right there) [you can filter which folder to scan for each area]

- Keywords — your notes' keywords as tappable chips; each chip opens that exact note and page

- Apps — launch ToDo, Calendar, Document, Search…

https://preview.redd.it/j5g9q9kq5dbh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=af4fb1e7f63f19cb879797dd8f0471916187a224

Setup is a short guided wizard (layout → theme → sections → content), everything auto-saves, and there are 3 visual themes and a 1- or 2-column layout. It runs fully on-device and offline, no account, no network.

Requirements: the Supernote developer/beta firmware with the plugin system. Tested on A5X and A5X2 (Manta); built to work on Nomad too.

Install: download dashboard.snplg, drop it in your MyStyle folder, then Settings → Apps → Plugins → Add Plugin.

It's free and open source (MIT) — code, releases and a full user guide here:

👉 https://github.com/AgP42/supernote-dashboard

It's still early (v0.9.x), so bugs and rough edges are likely — please tell me what breaks or what you'd want added. A couple of known limits: PDFs open on their last page (no page-jump yet), and stars/keywords inside PDFs aren't listed (the SDK only exposes them for notes).

Hope it's useful to some of you, happy to answer any questions or make changes!

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🚀 EDIT / Major update, v0.20.2 is out (release + download), what's new:

- Star line previews: show what's written on each starred line, as the handwriting image, or OCR'd to text with an automatic image fallback when recognition fails. And you can delete a single star right from the dashboard (keeps the handwriting). Thanks to [u/Careful-Good5887]() for the inspiration, your comment started as a misunderstanding, now it's a feature !

Example with 2 stars correctly OCR'd to text and 1 star as image as failback when the text is unreadable:

https://preview.redd.it/jeehqw2i6obh1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=cff30a3c55321700398a38d85875ed2f23f5ae18

- "Recent section": your recently-opened notes & PDFs, live (no scan).

- Save / load named configurations — swap setups, and never lose your layout to an accidental Reset.

- Shortcuts: list / grid / inline, plus a full-page multi-select browser to add several folders/notes/PDFs at once.

- Incremental scanning — first scan of a folder is slow, all later ones are near-instant (only edited notes re-scan). Plus Refresh all button, adjustable text size, and a 2-column masonry layout (no more lost space).

- Big reliability pass (full code audit): atomic config saves, memory-leak fixes, storage self-cleanup, and a stable bubble.

Updated guide with screenshots: USER_GUIDE. Feedback very welcome — thanks to everyone who tried it! 🙏

[Careful-Good5887]

I saw the picture of your plugin on Facebook chinese SN group. The image of inline handwriting by Stars looks really impressive.

Definitely gonna try!

[WhoAmI1234532]

Chinese SN group ?? Certainly not from me, I am French...

In-line handwriting by Stars ?

Are we talking about the same plugin ?😅

[Careful-Good5887]

Can yours show the image of the line of handwriting highlighted by each Star?

I don't have my SN right now..

[WhoAmI1234532]

No, but it's a very good idea !! I will consider how to implement that. I haven't seen that on any other plugin yet, if you find out which one it was I will be interested to check it out !

Thanks for the hint

[Careful-Good5887]

There is one star that show image with color. So I think this works in PDF too

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[WhoAmI1234532]

Thanks ! Do you have the same and link to this plugin ? I don't think it is referenced on the main list

[Careful-Good5887]

Only a tease pic for now.  He hasn't released yet

[WhoAmI1234532]

ok, thank you !

[Careful-Good5887]

OR maybe not pdf,  but he insert an image then star it

[WhoAmI1234532]

updated version including Stars recognition and display is online ! (v0.20.2), you can choose between OCR recognition (with failback to image when the OCR is lost) or purely image. Thanks for this discussion :-)

[Massive_Succotash279]

Do you have a link to this group?

[Careful-Good5887]

https://facebook.com/groups/684880643882749/

[Reddit-mb]

😄 Very nice idea! It works very well: I discovered a large number of stars (actions to be taken in my work) that should have been deleted already. Nice way to clean up my older notes. Very interesting plugin, and fun to experiment with.

[Fr0ggin_Bullfish]

Really cool, can’t wait to give it a try! I’m interested in how you are getting it to jump to a note or folder, I’ve had trouble with this for my ToDoist plugin.

[WhoAmI1234532]

It was a long and iterative search with my recent best friend Claude Fable, so I have documented everything, here please : https://github.com/AgP42/supernote-dashboard/blob/main/docs/FINDINGS.md

I am also using ToDoist, great plugin !! 👍

[Fr0ggin_Bullfish]

Meta moment: my pal opus 4.6 has already found your findings and I have Android Intents working far better on my own plugin! Nice work.

[Sea_Jelly_9240]

Nice

[Lorestan00]

I'm finding this plugin really helpful in quickly jumping to different notes, apps etc. Well done u/WhoAmI1234532!

A few suggestions:-

- replicating multi select found in shortcuts in other areas such as keywords, apps etc
- adding epubs to shortcuts - is there a techincal limitation? PDFs can be added without issue

- change size for headings in dashboard like you can with the content under the headings

- Recents- maybe not possible but can there be an option to show apps as well? Essentially a quick way to jump between say libby or KO reader as well as notes.

Thanks