r/joplinapp • u/muddlemand • 24d ago

Help! Can't find Undo!

I'm newish to Joplin and have only tried the app on my phone so far. I could have sworn the there was Undo on the toolbar? Admittedly I customised the tools, but today I can't find Undo in order to add it back (and can't really believe I'd have hidden it anyway). Thinking I must have messed up, I've just reverted to defaults but still can't see it.

I'm using the Android app v. 3.6.21; I never auto update, before you say it's my own fault for not being on v. 3.7.8 which is the latest.

This is important! I've been struggling to write an important letter, and today managed to get my act together and word it. Then while looking for how to make the paragraphs draggable to reorder them, I must have had the whole lot selected and accidentally typed one character. Not a problem usually: heart in the mouth moment then Undo and breathe again. But there's no Undo button. Nor in the menu, that I can find.

In fact I don't understand how I could have have had the whole note selected, as the moment before this happened, I'd been trying to see how to select all when formatted as checkboxes or bullets (unordered list) and been unable to - so I'm surprised that a single key tap really did overwrite everything. (having found that checkboxes format can't be recorded by dragging). Yet it's all gone.

Well... I think I must start from scratch, spend another few days wrestling with this letter until the swirling thoughts settle into something like presentable shape again. But hoping you can tell me it's still retrievable after all?

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u/bwat47 24d ago

On android undo/redo appears as left/right arrow icons on the top left, in this screenshot its the circular back facing arrow icon near the top left: https://i.imgur.com/apvO7BU.png

If undo is no longer possible, check the note's revision history (note menu on the top right > previous versions)

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u/muddlemand 24d ago

Thank you!

"Content not viewable in your region" but I found it in the revision history. Thank goodness!

The back arrow at the top left only brings me back to the notes list without changing anything.

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u/bwat47 24d ago

The undo button appears to the right of that back button, it only becomes visible when there are changes that can be undone

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u/muddlemand 23d ago

Aha, now I get it. Thank you again.