When plasma lost track of an desktop and reset all applets, all notes are gone. It would be nice if we could list all existing notes (xml files are still there) and let the user re-add them. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. plug a monitor 2. create a note on that monitor 3. unplug the monitor OBSERVED RESULT The note is gone forever until you get that exactly same monitor back. EXPECTED RESULT It should be possible to recover lost notes. Maybe a simple note manager inside its settings or a simple pop-up that asks if the user wishes to reuse an old note or create a new one (with possibly a way to delete old notes). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.24.5 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It would be nice to merge notes solutions in KDE into a single consistent app. We have knotes (standalone or inside kontact, but standalone does not start if kontact is open) and plasma-addon notes.
I have experienced this myself. It's incredibly frustrating. Ideally we should fix the bug that causes it to happen in the first place. But this being user data, and user data being inviolably important, I think it's sane to have a backup/fallback mechanism as requested here. FWIW the content lives in ~/.local/share/plasma_notes/.
Just lost my notes widget today and had to put it back. I keep my notes widget on my laptop screen and not my external screen which stops working often (Thank you Nvidia). Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230417 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.2.10-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1535M v6 @ 3.10GHz Memory: 62.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics P630 Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G4
*** Bug 487282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In Plasma 5.27.11 the same thing happens even if I just change the number of screens. I keep my notes on Screen 2 . If I unplug screen 4, my notes are gone and I end up with one empty Note on screen 2. KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.116.0 Qt Version: 5.15.14 Kernel Version: 6.10.5-gentoo Graphics Platform: X11 nvidia-drivers 550.107.02
Git commit 04badef38de928e8386c93b044fd9bd54e95c0bd by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 26/08/2025 at 08:10. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Deduplicate multiple applets asking to use the same note file This also trashes notes instead of deleting them, which makes them recoverable. Related: bug 508572 M +1 -0 applets/notes/CMakeLists.txt M +1 -1 applets/notes/abstractnoteloader.h M +29 -6 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.cpp M +2 -1 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.h M +2 -2 applets/notes/notemanager.cpp M +1 -1 applets/notes/notemanager.h M +1 -1 applets/notes/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/04badef38de928e8386c93b044fd9bd54e95c0bd
Git commit 865efe1aca54fe167b3f4317ba303d0b5ce6756b by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 26/08/2025 at 08:13. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. Deduplicate multiple applets asking to use the same note file This also trashes notes instead of deleting them, which makes them recoverable. Related: bug 508572 Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +2 -0 applets/notes/CMakeLists.txt M +1 -1 applets/notes/abstractnoteloader.h M +29 -6 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.cpp M +2 -1 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.h M +2 -2 applets/notes/notemanager.cpp M +1 -1 applets/notes/notemanager.h M +1 -1 applets/notes/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/865efe1aca54fe167b3f4317ba303d0b5ce6756b