/joplin-exports-to-ssg

Joplin plugin to exports notes to ssg project. Going to Add a new features to it (Auto write front infos)

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Fork of a fork

This joplin plugin is a fork of joplin-exports-to-ssg, which is a fork of joplin-exports-to-ssg.

Both other versions had a bug that only considered the first 100 notes for export. This may have lead to no exported notes at all. This version changes the behavior: Instead of some sub-notes of a notebook, it exports all notes with the tag "blog" (configurable in the settings).

New features from the xczics-fork:

  1. export ssg type and root path of ssg are get from settings, not every time export.
  2. tile, tags, and time are auto-added into the frontmatters.
  3. When export to Jekyll, all of the note under the folders and it sub-folders and sub-sub-folders and sub-sub-sub...folders can all be export.
  4. When export to Jekyll, the note with tags "settings" will write to dist descibed by the first line of the note, while the firstline will delet when writing.
  5. When export to Jekyll, the note with tags "pages" will write as page, the distpath are no longer "_posts" but the path of notebooks.

Other Infomation are the same as in joplin-exports-to-ssg, fellows are their README. Read it First.

Joplin Exports-To-SSG Plugin

This is a joplin plugin that exports collection of notes from Joplin as markdown file along with their static files[ images , pdfs etc] to static site generator(ssg) project.

Currently it supports export to three static site generator -

How it can be useful for you ?

Let say you want to create your portfolio website -

  1. Create note related to your site content in joplin or you can import notes exported from evernotes in joplin.

  2. Then export your notes using this plugin.

  3. Using any premade theme that your static site generator provides and your site is running up in minutes.

Joplin[ Create content as notes ] -----Export-----> SSG Project -------> Website

Conclusion : It creates a great worklflow for building static webiste whoose main purpose is to display some infromation.

Installation -

  • Go to Tools > Options > Plugins .
  • Search Exports-To-SSG.
  • Click Install plugin.
  • Restart Joplin app to enable it.

How to use it ?

  • Right click on notebook whoose notes you want to export. Please keep in mind that notes which are at Level-1 Depth from selected notebook will be exported.

Level-1 Depth : To understand this scroll down to the Some basic terminologies section.

  • Then a little menu will appear on your screen.Choose Export to SSG from there.

Example-1

  • After that a dialog will be going to appear pn your screen.Set the configuration and then export them.

    Example-2

Warning ! : Don't press Enter Key while setting your export configuration because it will going to submit your form automatically. So don't try to type your front matter just directly paste your pre-typed front matter here in frontmatter option.

Options Description Required
Choose your SSG It will decide how your notes will be exported Yes
Project Path Provide the absolute path to the place where you want your notes to be exported Yes
Front Matter Paste your front matter you want to attach with each note No

What will be the structure of your exported content ?

Let us assume that your project is in a folder name root.

  • For Hugo

    • All notes will be in a folder inisde your root/content/NoteBook.title-NoteBook.id.And note wil be named as their respective name in joplin. So notes are categorized according to their notebooks.

    • All the static file of these notes will under root/static/resources with their respective names as per in notes.

  • For Gatsby

    • All notes will be in a folder inisde your root/src/markdown.And note wil be named note.title-note.id

    • All the static file of these notes will under root/static with their respective names as per in notes.

  • For Jekyll

    • All notes will be in a folder inisde your root/_posts.And note will be named as YYYY-MM-DD-note.title-note.id

    • All the static file of these notes will under root/resourceswith their respective names as per in notes.

Note : After exporting new path of static file are updated in notes as per instruction given by the ssg to deal with static file.After that you can change it accordingly.

Some basic terminologies -

  1. SSG - Static Site Generator
  2. Level-1 Depth - You will click on notebook and this plugin exports all the notes at level-1 depth under this notebook not the subnotebooks and their notes.

Let us take one example of a notebook with 3 notes and 1 sub-notebook.Furthermore sub-notebook have 2 notes and 1 sub-sub-notebook.And this sub-sub-notebook also having 2 notes.

Notebook
|_ _ _Sub-Notebook
|       |_ _ _sub-note-1
|       |_ _ _sub-note-2
|       |_ _ _Sub-Sub-Notebook
|               |_ _ _sub-sub-note-1
|               |_ _ _sub-sub-note-2
|_ _ _note-1
|_ _ _note-2
|_ _ _note-3

If you use this exports on

  • Notebook : note-1 , note-2 and note-3 will be exported.
  • Sub-Notebook : sub-note-1 and sub-note-2 will be exported.
  • Sub-Sub-Notebook : sub-sub-note-1 and sub-note-2 will be exported.