Bookmark Notes

Customization Plugin
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:information_source: Summary A Discourse plugin that turns bookmarks into private personal notes attached to posts and other bookmarkable content
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/merefield/discourse-bookmark-notes
:open_book: Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse
:heart: Sponsorship Please consider becoming an ongoing sponsor of my open source work 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.

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A bookmark with a title and Markdown personal note
A bookmark with a title and Markdown personal note601×950 41.4 KB

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 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

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Add support for 'personal notes' on posts
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Thanks

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It’s the same as the Post, because the note lives as metadata of the Bookmark

Yes, that’s a private repo exposed only to sponsors

Fair question, will revert - held up by a site that needs a Postgres upgrade that needs to be done overnight

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This is something I didn’t know I need :laughing:

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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