Embed Search — Notebook Grouping Fork

A fork of ambrt/joplin-plugin-embed-search, a Joplin plugin that lets you embed a live search inside a note and have the results render right there in the preview pane.

This fork adds the ability to group results by notebook, and fixes a bug where restricting a search to the current notebook would also pull in results from its subnotebooks.

What it does

Add a fenced search code block to any note:

```search
your search terms
```

When you view the note, the plugin runs that search and replaces the block with a live list of matching notes, each one a clickable link back to the note. To-do items get a checkbox you can tick right from the results list.

Search modifiers

Add any of these on their own line inside the search block, alongside your search terms:

Modifier	What it does
sort:asc	Sort results alphabetically by title, A → Z
sort:desc	Sort results alphabetically by title, Z → A
content:true	Show a preview of each note's body content below its title
notebook:this	Restrict results to the current note's notebook only (fixed in this fork — no longer pulls in subnotebooks)
group:notebook	New in this fork. Group results under bold notebook-name headers, sorted alphabetically by notebook, with notes sorted by title within each group

Examples

Show every note tagged with a keyword, sorted A–Z:

```search
budget sort:asc
```

Restrict to notes in the current notebook only, with content previews:

```search
budget notebook:this content:true
```

Group everything across your whole workspace by notebook — handy for a dashboard note that surveys many notebooks at once:

```search
tag:reference group:notebook
```

What changed from the original plugin

• Added: group:notebook — groups search results under notebook headers instead of one flat list.
• Fixed: notebook:this previously appended a notebook:"<title>" filter to the Joplin search query. Joplin's own notebook: filter has no way to exclude subnotebooks, so this leaked in results from child notebooks. This fork instead filters results in-plugin by exact parent_id match against the current note's notebook, so only notes directly in that notebook are returned.
• Fixed: the original code asked Joplin for a folder's name field when resolving notebook:this — Joplin folders don't have a name field, only title, so this silently broke the feature. Fixed to request title.

All credit for the original plugin, the fence-block rendering approach, and the to-do checkbox handling goes to ambrt.

Installation

1. Download the latest .jpl file from the Releases page (or build it yourself — see below).
2. In Joplin: Tools → Options → Plugins → gear icon → Install from file.
3. Select the .jpl file and restart Joplin if prompted.

Building from source

Requires Node.js and npm.

git clone https://gitea.skeletonworks.online/vwiebe/joplin-plugin-embed-search-fork.git
cd joplin-plugin-embed-search-fork
npm install
npm run dist

The built plugin will appear at publish/com.victorwiebe.embed-search-notebook-grouping.jpl.

If npm run dist fails

This project's build tooling (webpack 4) predates a change in Node's OpenSSL defaults. If your Node version is 17 or newer, npm run dist (or npm publish, which runs it internally) can fail with an error that includes ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED or digital envelope routines::unsupported. This is not a problem with the code — it's an old build tool meeting a newer Node.

This is already worked around in package.json — the dist script runs through cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider, so a plain npm run dist and a plain npm publish should both just work as long as you've run npm install first (which pulls in the cross-env package the fix depends on).

If you still hit the error after npm install, delete node_modules and reinstall from scratch:

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
npm install
npm run dist

Not sure which Node version you have? Run node --version. Anything starting with v17 or higher can hit this; v16 and earlier won't.

License

MIT, same as the original plugin.