About this plugin
Jotwing adds a notes system to wp-admin that stays out of the way until you need it.
Capture from wherever you are
- Toolbar — a New note item on every admin and front-end page opens a small popover. Type, press Ctrl/⌘+Enter, done.
- Dashboard widget — quick-add plus your ten most recent notes, pinned ones first, each showing the page it was added on.
- Post editor sidebar — notes attached to the post or page you are editing, right next to the content.
- Full editor — every note is a regular block-editor document with autosave and revisions.
- Export — download any list view as CSV or JSON. Only the notes you can see are ever exported; the core Tools → Export screen deliberately leaves notes out.
Attach notes to pages
Open the toolbar popover while viewing or editing a post or page and the note is attached to it. Those notes show up in that post’s editor sidebar and are listed first in the popover whenever you come back to that page.
Share exactly as much as you want
Each note has one of four visibilities:
- Only me — the default. Nobody else can see it.
- Specific users — pick people by name.
- Specific roles — for example every Editor.
- Everyone on this site — any logged-in user.
Sharing is read-only unless you switch on Allow editing. Only the author can delete a note or change who it is shared with.
A private note is private
Administrators are not granted access to other users’ private notes. Access is enforced server-side in every path: the notes list, the REST API, the dashboard widget, revisions and the read-only viewer. What you see is exactly what you are allowed to see, and the counts in the list views match.
Lean by design
- Notes are a custom post type, so the block editor, autosave, revisions, REST and the list table come from WordPress core.
- No Composer dependencies, no CSS framework, no jQuery UI, no build step. Three small plain-JavaScript files.
- Nothing is ever output on the public site. No external requests, no tracking, no options page.
- Uninstalling removes every note and the capabilities the plugin added.