# Bookmark Notes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [August 10, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685 "2026-08-10T11:11:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/1 "2026-08-10T11:11:06Z")
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| ℹ | **Summary** | A Discourse plugin that turns bookmarks into private personal notes attached to posts and other bookmarkable content |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes) |
| 📖 | **Install Guide** | [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) |
| ❤ | **Sponsorship** | Please consider becoming an ongoing [sponsor of my open source work](https://github.com/sponsors/merefield) at a level that suits your or your organisation’s resources and needs to ensure this plugin gets the maintenance it deserves and continues to work for your site in the future. |
Enjoying this plugin? Please ⭐ it on [GitHub](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes)! 🙏
### Features
Discourse Bookmark Notes extends the existing bookmark experience rather than introducing a separate notes system:
- Uses the bookmark’s existing name as the note title.
- Adds a private personal-note body using Discourse’s Markdown editor, including its formatting toolbar and rendered preview.
- Shows a button below a post when the current user has saved a non-empty note, making the bookmark modal easy to reopen.
- Keeps notes private to the user who owns each bookmark. Different users can bookmark the same post and maintain completely independent notes.
- Preserves bookmark reminders, auto-delete preferences, bookmark controls, and the bookmarks activity list.
- Supports creating, updating, and removing a note without removing its bookmark.
### Settings
The plugin provides two settings, both enabled by default:
- `discourse_bookmark_notes_enabled` enables or disables the plugin.
- `discourse_bookmark_notes_post_button_enabled` controls the note button shown below posts with non-empty notes.
### Privacy and storage
Note bodies are stored in a plugin-owned `BookmarkNote` record with a one-to-one relationship to the core bookmark. Removing the bookmark also removes its personal note.
Notes are loaded and saved through owner-authorized endpoints. Topic pages expose bookmark-note data only to the signed-in bookmark owner; one user’s note is never added to another user’s post or bookmark payload.
### Pro extension
[Discourse Bookmark Notes Pro](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes-pro-ext) is an optional extension available to GitHub Sponsors as a thank-you for supporting ongoing development. Individual sponsors on the $7/month tier receive access and private-repository installation instructions.
The Pro extension adds independently configurable features:
- A private, collapsible panel below a bookmarked post showing the full rendered note.
- Personal notes appended to entries on the current user’s bookmarks activity page.
- Bookmark search extended to include the current user’s bookmark titles and personal-note bodies when using `in:bookmarks`.
- A sortable **Notes** column on topic lists, indicating when the current user has a note on the topic or any of its posts.
**[Sponsor on GitHub to get Bookmark Notes Pro](https://github.com/sponsors/merefield)**
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### Author:  [@DRRO](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DRRO)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/2 "2026-08-10T15:51:23Z")
> [@merefield](#):
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> - Supports creating, updating, and removing a note without removing its bookmark.
- Can I get a link to the note or that’s part part of the pro version? (I get 404 error trying to see [https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes-pro-ext](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes-pro-ext))
- Do you have an instance/community where I can test it?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/3 "2026-08-10T16:17:50Z")
> [@DRRO](#):
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> - Can I get a link to the note
It’s the same as the Post, because the note lives as metadata of the Bookmark
> [@DRRO](#):
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> - (I get 404 error trying to see [https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes-pro-ext](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes-pro-ext))
Yes, that’s a private repo exposed only to sponsors
> [@DRRO](#):
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> - Do you have an instance/community where I can test it?
Fair question, will revert - held up by a site that needs a Postgres upgrade that needs to be done overnight
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/4 "2026-08-10T16:30:09Z")
This is something I didn’t know I need 😆
But on my circle I bookmark posts that need to be fixed, and now I can make a note for future me what I was actually planning. Nice, me like!
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/5 "2026-08-11T04:19:26Z")
nicely done Robert. 👏
i like how you do the pro extensions for sponsors :chefs_kiss:
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/6 "2026-08-11T06:28:54Z")
Bookmark Notes (Pro) is up on [https://www.artofsm.art](https://www.artofsm.art) currently 👍
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/7 "2026-08-11T07:05:35Z")
A few nice updates for Pro users:
- clicking on the note header (or new pencil icon) will now take you directly to the bookmark modal to edit the note (so now same as for non-Pro)
- notes are now unfurled by default (but there is a global setting for this)
- clicking on the note icon on the topic list will take you directly to the first bookmark note in the topic 🚀
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### Author:  [@Eviepayne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eviepayne)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/8 "2026-08-11T15:50:54Z")
I setup the plugin but this isn’t appearing to work. Is this compatible with esr?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/9 "2026-08-11T15:57:02Z")
I don’t think so. It relies on a new plugin outlet that was added just a few days ago.
> [@Add support for 'personal notes' on posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-support-for-personal-notes-on-posts/261798/32):
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> I’ve started building this as a plugin. It relies on a PR to Core to add a plugin outlet: if someone from the team could review that and merge as appropriate … I’d be grateful folded_hands
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### Author:  [@Eviepayne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eviepayne)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/10 "2026-08-11T16:02:12Z")
Dang I guess I’m waiting for next release.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/11 "2026-08-11T16:08:12Z")
You need to be running latest, or possibly 2026.8 when that arrives.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/12 "2026-08-25T16:59:30Z")
… which … just released:
> [@August 2026 monthly release](https://meta.discourse.org/t/august-2026-monthly-release/410919):
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> For more information on all the changes released in 2026.8, check out: Patch releases for other supported versions have also been released: [v2026.7.2 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.7.2)[v2026.6.3 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.6.3)[v2026.1.8 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.1.8)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/13 "2026-08-25T18:18:21Z")
> [@merefield](#):
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> which … just released:
But that isn’t an extended support release…
> [@Eviepayne](#):
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> Is this compatible with esr?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-notes/409685/14 "2026-08-25T18:21:14Z")
No you’d have to wait until that plugin outlet reaches esr, ie the next one.