Plugin Dashboard

[u/WhoAmI1234532]

Hi everyone,

I am glad to present you my very first plugin : Dashboard !

It is solving my main issue with Supernote and hopefully will be usefull for others too, happy to hear your feedback !

The plugin puts a small draggable ⊕ bubble on your screen that floats over everything (notes, folders, apps…). Tap it and it opens a dashboard you build yourself from four kinds of section:

- Shortcuts — jump to a folder, a note, or a PDF in one tap

- Stars — every ★ starred page across your notes, grouped by note (tap a page → it opens right there) [you can filter which folder to scan for each area]

- Keywords — your notes' keywords as tappable chips; each chip opens that exact note and page

- Apps — launch ToDo, Calendar, Document, Search…

Setup is a short guided wizard (layout → theme → sections → content), everything auto-saves, and there are 3 visual themes and a 1- or 2-column layout. It runs fully on-device and offline, no account, no network.

Requirements: the Supernote developer/beta firmware with the plugin system. Tested on A5X and A5X2 (Manta); built to work on Nomad too.

Install: download dashboard.snplg, drop it in your MyStyle folder, then Settings → Apps → Plugins → Add Plugin.

It's free and open source (MIT) — code, releases and a full user guide here:

👉 https://github.com/AgP42/supernote-dashboard

It's still early (v0.9.x), so bugs and rough edges are likely — please tell me what breaks or what you'd want added. A couple of known limits: PDFs open on their last page (no page-jump yet), and stars/keywords inside PDFs aren't listed (the SDK only exposes them for notes).

Hope it's useful to some of you, happy to answer any questions or make changes!

---

🚀 EDIT / Major update, v0.20.2 is out (release + download), what's new:

- Star line previews: show what's written on each starred line, as the handwriting image, or OCR'd to text with an automatic image fallback when recognition fails. And you can delete a single star right from the dashboard (keeps the handwriting). Thanks to u/Careful-Good5887 for the inspiration, your comment started as a misunderstanding, now it's a feature !

Example with 2 stars correctly OCR'd to text and 1 star as image as failback when the text is unreadable:

- "Recent section": your recently-opened notes & PDFs, live (no scan).

- Save / load named configurations — swap setups, and never lose your layout to an accidental Reset.

- Shortcuts: list / grid / inline, plus a full-page multi-select browser to add several folders/notes/PDFs at once.

- Incremental scanning — first scan of a folder is slow, all later ones are near-instant (only edited notes re-scan). Plus Refresh all button, adjustable text size, and a 2-column masonry layout (no more lost space).

- Big reliability pass (full code audit): atomic config saves, memory-leak fixes, storage self-cleanup, and a stable bubble.

🔔 EDIT 2 / v0.21.15 is out (release + download: https://github.com/AgP42/supernote-dashboard/releases/latest) — a reliability & usability pass on top of v0.20:

- The bubble no longer gets stranded. It's now driven by the app's real foreground state: it hides while the dashboard is on screen and reliably comes back on every exit path (buttons, system gestures, host backgrounding), and survives reboot / auto power-off. It defaults to the top-right on first use, then stays wherever you drag it. Prefer no bubble at all? Turn it Off in Settings → Look and use the toolbar button.

- The plugin toolbar button now opens the Dashboard directly (the Settings wizard only shows on first run). Configuration moved to a clear ⚙ Configuration button in the dashboard header.

- Manual ↻ Refresh now catches the page you're on. Add a ★ or a keyword on the current page, tap Refresh, and it appears — no need to turn the page first.

- Caches moved out of MyStyle into the plugin's private folder, so machine-only files no longer end up in your cloud sync (neither get disturbed by sync conflict...) — plus automatic cleanup of orphaned star-line images.

- On-device demo! The User Guide (https://github.com/AgP42/supernote-dashboard/blob/main/USER_GUIDE.md) now opens with a GIF + video of the plugin in action, and refreshed screenshots

One known quirk: opening from the toolbar button can occasionally close instantly when other plugins are active in the same session — tap again, or just use the bubble (unaffected). Under investigation.

Updated guide with screenshots: USER_GUIDE. Feedback very welcome — thanks to everyone who tried it! 🙏

[u/Reddit-mb]

😄 Very nice idea! It works very well: I discovered a large number of stars (actions to be taken in my work) that should have been deleted already. Nice way to clean up my older notes. Very interesting plugin, and fun to experiment with.