Qownnotes: Feature Request: Ability to duplicate notes

[timunrau]

Expected behaviour

Right click on a note to duplicate it. Then QOwnNotes would create a copy of that note in the same folder.

The use case would be for me to create note templates and then be able to duplicate them whenever I want to create a note with that template.

Actual behaviour

No option to duplicate the note.

Steps to reproduce

1. Right click on a note.
2. See how there is no option to duplicate it. :)

[pbek]

You could easily do that with the scripting engine in a custom action by

• taking the text of the current note
• copying it to the clipboard
• creating a new note
• selecting the whole text of the (new) current note
• pasting the text from the clipboard

see: https://docs.qownnotes.org/en/develop/scripting/README.html

Are you up to the challenge? :muscle:

[pbek]

It's actually even easier:

• taking the text of the current note
• creating a new note with the text

[Waqar144]

You can also do it by just doing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V the note :rofl:

[timunrau]

I realize that all three of these options are ways to do this, but they would require more steps than just right clicking on a note to duplicate it.

[pbek]

No, you can create a custom action that can have a menu entry in the note list context menu.

[fnkabit]

@timunrau Added a simple script for creating a duplicate note. It adds a 'Duplicate selected note' entry in the context menu.
The script is called 'Duplicate note'.

[pbek]

Thank you, @fnkabit! I will close this issue until there is more information.

[timunrau]

@timunrau Added a simple script for creating a duplicate note. It adds a 'Duplicate selected note' entry in the context menu.
The script is called 'Duplicate note'.

Thanks @fnkabit, this works great.

[fnkabit]

@timunrau That's great, thank you for testing it !