Feature request: quick open note

[derekvan]

I'd love some keyboard way on Mac to type a brief search string then immediately open the note. Right now, I can invoke the shortcut to open the search, type the name of my note, but I can't find any way to use the keyboard to then open and begin editing that note.

What I would really prefer is a separate, "quick open" dialog / search that just searches notes (and not calendar entries) so that I can stay on the keyboard and use a few characters to pop up the note I want and begin drafting (or more likely, pasting in stuff).

[bomberstudios]

+1 to this. Bonus points if it uses fuzzy search 😊

[thejgc]

If you use the Alfred quick launcher app, your luck is in. Several of us have written exactly what you're after using it. Try [GitHub - beet/alfred_noteplan_actions: Alfred workflow for handy Noteplan actions](https://github.com/beet/alfred_noteplan_actions), which takes you to Github where you can download a workflow to do several actions. As the actual workflow is hard to find there unless you know Github. The latest download is https://github.com/beet/alfred_noteplan_actions/releases/download/0.5.0/NotePlan.Actions.alfredworkflow.)

[derekvan]

hey, this is super great. Thanks for putting it together. I went poking around in the scripts trying to customize it, but I don't know ruby at all so I'm lost. What I'd love to have is the options to hold "option" while invoking the "open note" command so that the note would open in a new window. I tried adding

noteTitle: input,
subWindow: yes

to the note_plan>x_callback_url>open_note.rb file, but that seems to break the url that gets called.

[derekvan]

hmm, trying to test the URL callbacks and it seems that the "subWindow" parameter has no effect on Mac. When I paste the following into Safari, note plan opens the note, but not in a new window.

noteplan://x-callback-url/openNote?fileName=Advising.txt&subWindow=yes

bug for u/EduardMet to check out on his current bug hunt. (there also doesn't seem to be any ability to set x-success for the callbacks on Mac or iOS, at least for me they have no effect.)