Custom tools - jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki GitHub Wiki

What are custom tools

Custom tools are external applications or scripts that can be called from zim. This allows you to write scripts that modify a page or a notebook without having to write a full plugin.

To define a custom tool go to Tools -> Custom Tools in the menu.

Custom tools

• Generates a “mindmap” out of indented text in a zim page: text2mindmap custom tool
• Remove the manual line breaks of simple text emails or pdf: remove line breaks custom tool
• Archive websites linked from your notebook: Zim Archivist Custom tool
• Move unfinished tasks in the Calendar namespace to the next day: Calendar tasks to tomorrow Custom tool
• Execute Groovy script in a zim page: Groovy script custom tool
• Count words in all pages of a branch of the Notebook, useful for Novel writer: count_word.sh custom tool
• Workaround for Windows Copy
• Paste formatted text from other apps: Paste formatted text custom tool (See also: pastefromhtml plugin)
• Generate list of headlines: hl-lister.sh custom tool
• Generate list of subnotes: sub-lister.sh custom tool
• Generate list of subnotes with headlines: sub-hl-lister.sh custom tool
• Aggregate tagged note blocks from other pages: tag-block-aggregator custom tool