Quick Links Plus for Joplin

A reworked take on the Quick Links idea: link to notes, headings and anchors straight from the Markdown editor, generate stable anchor ids, and copy a link to any heading or anchor directly from the rendered note.

About this plugin. Quick Links Plus was developed end-to-end with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. There is no active human maintainer behind it — it was built to solve a personal need and is shared as-is, without warranty. Contributions and maintainers are very welcome: if you'd like to improve or take over the project, please open an issue or pull request.

Works in the CodeMirror 6 Markdown editor (current Joplin). The legacy CodeMirror 5 editor and the Rich Text (WYSIWYG) editor are not supported.

Features

Editor autocompletions

| Trigger | What it does | Inserts | | --- | --- | --- | | @@<text> | Find a note by title, ranked by title relevance (exact, prefix, contains) and then recency. | [Title](:/<noteId>) | | @@#<text> | Find a heading or inline anchor across all notes. For anchors the query is matched against the text before the anchor up to the preceding line break, so any part of it finds the anchor. Each row shows an excerpt around your match. Results are grouped by note (Note › Notebook), anchors are prefixed with #. | [Text](:/<noteId>#<anchor>) | | @@id | Insert a fresh, note-unique anchor. The popup previews the exact element to be inserted. | <a id="ab12cd"></a> |

Both searches order their results by notebook context first — notes in or near the current note's notebook rank higher — before applying the ranking above.

A trailing slash lists what sits inside what you named: @@<note title>/ shows that note's headings and anchors, @@#<heading>/ shows the sub-headings and anchors nested under that heading. Type after the slash to filter inside, narrowing to the matching headings and anchors.

Press Tab or Enter to accept the highlighted suggestion. Press Shift+Enter or Shift+Tab to accept it and also select the visible [link text], so you can immediately type your own wording over it.

Generated ids start with a letter followed by lower-case letters/digits, and are checked for uniqueness against the current note (including unsaved edits and heading slugs). The length is configurable (default 6).

Viewer copy marks

In the rendered note a small link icon appears next to every heading and inline anchor. It is hidden until you hover the line (then light gray), turns dark when you point at it, and on click copies a Joplin link to that target and shows Copied! (duration configurable). For anchors the link text is taken from the text preceding the anchor. Marks are hidden in print/PDF export.

Sorting (context bias)

Suggestions are ranked by how close a note's notebook is to the notebook of the note you're editing: the current notebook's own subtree first, then its parent's area, then everything else. Within each tier, exact matches rank above prefix and contains matches. Context takes priority, so a match in a nearby notebook ranks above one further away.

Settings

Found under Options -> Quick Links Plus:

• Show notebook name - shows the notebook next to note results (@@) and in the section header of heading/anchor results (@@#). On by default.
• Enable heading / anchor search (@@#).
• Enable anchor id generator (@@id).
• Show copy marks (link icon) in the viewer.

Under Joplin's Advanced settings toggle (click Show Advanced Settings in the config screen):

• Anchor id length - characters in @@id ids (default 6).
• "Copied!" message duration - how long the confirmation stays visible, in milliseconds (default 900).

Building

npm install
npm run dist

This produces an installable archive at publish/com.quicklinksplus.plugin.jpl. Install it via Options -> Plugins -> Install from file.

Notes & limitations

• Heading links rely on Joplin's slug algorithm. The slug generated here matches Joplin for typical headings (letters, numbers, spaces, common punctuation); very unusual characters may differ.
• @@# searches note bodies via Joplin search, so only the most relevant notes are scanned for performance.

Credits

• Based on Quick Links by Roman Musin (roman-r-m) — the original @@ note-linking plugin and the template for the editor autocompletion. (MIT)
• The viewer copy mechanism was informed by Copy Anchor Link by Hieu-Thi Luong (hieuthi) — copying via the plugin main process. (MIT)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.md. As a fork of the MIT-licensed Quick Links plugin, the license retains the original copyright alongside the new one.