Merge pull request #141 from sh1vam31/feat/focus-title-bar-after-template_#67

feat: add option to focus title bar after creating note from template

Author: alondmnt

src/actions.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import joplin from "api";
 import { NewNote, NOTE_ID_PLACEHOLDER } from "./parser";
 import { getSelectedFolder } from "./utils/folders";
 import { applyTagToNote, getAnyTagWithTitle } from "./utils/tags";
-import { ApplyTagsWhileInsertingSetting } from "./settings";
+import { ApplyTagsWhileInsertingSetting, FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting } from "./settings";
 
 export enum TemplateAction {
     NewNote = "newNote",
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ const performNewNoteAction = async (template: NewNote, isTodo: 0 | 1) => {
     }
 
     await joplin.commands.execute("openNote", note.id);
+
+    // Focus title bar if the user has enabled the setting
+    const focusTitle = await FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting.get();
+    if (focusTitle) {
+        try {
+            await joplin.commands.execute("focusElement", "noteTitle");
+        } catch {
+            // focusElement may not be available in all Joplin versions — fail silently
+        }
+    }
+
     for (const tag of template.tags) {
         const tagId = (await getAnyTagWithTitle(tag)).id;
         await applyTagToNote(tagId, note.id);

src/settings/focusTitleAfterCreate.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import { SettingItemType } from "api/types";
+import { createSimpleSetting } from "./base";
+
+export const FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting = createSimpleSetting<boolean>("focusTitleAfterCreate", {
+    public: true,
+    type: SettingItemType.Bool,
+    value: false,
+    label: "Focus title bar after creating a note from template",
+    description: "When enabled, the cursor will be placed in the title bar instead of the note body after creating a note or to-do from a template.",
+    section: "templatesPlugin"
+});

src/settings/index.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export { DefaultNoteTemplateIdSetting } from "./defaultNoteTemplateId";
 export { DefaultTemplatesConfigSetting } from "./defaultTemplatesConfig";
 export { DefaultTodoTemplateIdSetting } from "./defaultTodoTemplateId";
 export { TemplatesSourceSetting } from "./templatesSource";
+export { FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting } from "./focusTitleAfterCreate";
 
 // Export registry
 export { PluginSettingsRegistry } from "./registry";

src/settings/registry.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { DefaultNoteTemplateIdSetting } from "./defaultNoteTemplateId";
 import { DefaultTemplatesConfigSetting } from "./defaultTemplatesConfig";
 import { DefaultTodoTemplateIdSetting } from "./defaultTodoTemplateId";
 import { TemplatesSourceSetting } from "./templatesSource";
+import { FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting } from "./focusTitleAfterCreate";
 
 import { PluginSetting } from "./base";
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ export class PluginSettingsRegistry {
         DefaultTemplatesConfigSetting,
         DefaultTodoTemplateIdSetting,
         TemplatesSourceSetting,
+        FocusTitleAfterCreateSetting,
     ];
 
     public static async registerSettings(): Promise<void> {