# Joplin MCP Server MCP Server

FastMCP server exposing Joplin notes, notebooks, tags, and imports.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `joplin-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**17 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Feature request: Icon update

I am using Emojis in Joplin for my folders. I noticed that the MCP cannot update that, it instead starts the title with a emoji.

<img width="190" height="93" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec7ccd98-01f9-4cf0-9fca-ddfafcdb8b51" />

What MCP makes of it (wrong):
<img width="521" height="274" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1169229-29f4-447f-9a16-96287ce4bcb5" />

What I make of it manually in the Joplin app (correct):
<img width="518" heig

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/51) · 2026-05-17 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Docker image wouldn't build (modifications suggested)

Thanks a lot this works great. However I could not build the docker container without making a few modifications:

I switched another base imageand use apk instead of apt:
```Dockerfile
FROM python:3.11-alpine
RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl
# I changed the useradd command to
RUN adduser -D -s /bin/sh appuser \
    && chown -R appuser:appuser /app
```

Moverover to be able to run it on Windows I had to change

```Dockerfile
COPY docker/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
RUN sed -i 's/\r//'

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/50) · 2026-05-16 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Race condition: update_note API call returns 200 OK but confirmation message is missing or unreliable for immediate followup reads

## Bug: `update_note` API Call Returns HTTP 200 but Response is Missing from Frontend (Race Condition)

### Problem Statement

When using `update_note` (or `tool_replace_note_content`) through the Joplin MCP server via Open WebUI/MCPO, the tool **executes successfully on the backend** but the **confirmation message is missing from the user-facing output**, even though:

1. **HTTP 200 OK is returned** by the server
2. **The note IS actually updated in Joplin** (verified in subsequent reads)
3. **

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/24) · 2026-04-11 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Feature Proposal: Headless server deployment via joplin-terminal-data-api (no Joplin Desktop required)

# Problem

The current Docker setup requires JOPLIN_TOKEN to be provided as an environment variable. This token is only obtainable from a running Joplin Desktop instance via the Web Clipper settings, which makes fully server-side / headless deployments (VPS, NAS, CI environments) impossible with the current setup.

# Proposed solution
[joplin-terminal-data-api](https://github.com/RickoNoNo3/joplin-terminal-data-api) runs a headless Joplin CLI internally and auto-injects the token, eliminating th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/14) · 2026-03-09 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Feature proposal: notebook allowlist for restricting MCP server access

### Problem

When an AI agent connects to Joplin via MCP, it currently has access to all notebooks. For users with personal, work, or sensitive notebooks alongside ones they want an agent to operate on, there is no way to limit the scope of access. A misconfigured prompt or unexpected tool call could read or modify notes the user never intended to expose.

### Proposed solution

A pattern-based allowlist that controls which notebooks the MCP server can access. The configuration would use gitigno

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/13) · 2026-03-09 · closed · outside contributor · 10 comments

### Most recent

### Question: project direction now that Joplin ships native AI features

I use joplin-mcp daily (via Claude Code) to drive my notes and to-dos, and it has become a core part of my workflow — thank you for building it.

When Joplin's native AI features appeared, I compared the two and stayed with joplin-mcp — it is currently the more mature way to work with notes from an assistant. But the direction is clear: Joplin itself is investing in AI. I am curious how you see this playing out for joplin-mcp: do you expect the native features and an external MCP server to serve

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Heavy Token Use

Thank you for creating the mcp. Is there a way to create queries that limit the token use.  Querying a single notebook page for information can consume of 5K tokens.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/59) · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### update_note/update_notebook/update_tag success messages omit item title/name

## Summary

`format_update_success()` in `formatting.py` only includes `ITEM_ID` in its response, never the item's title/name — unlike `format_creation_success()`, which includes both. This makes it hard for an LLM client (and any human reading the tool call log) to tell which note/notebook/tag was just touched, without cross-referencing the ID against an earlier call.

```python
def format_update_success(item_type: ItemType, item_id: str) -> str:
    return f"""OPERATION: UPDATE_{item_type.valu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-07-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP Joplin 0.9.0 not working with Claude Desktop

I upgraded my 0.7.1 to the latest version (0.9.0) via pip and now the MCP server doesn't work with Claude Desktop. Latest macOS, latest Claude Desktop app, latest Joplin app. Reinstalled via pip and went through the configuration again, but still the same error. When I hit the webclipper page directly in a browser (http://localhost:41184/), I get the following error message:

`{"error":"Not Found: \n\nError: Not Found\n    at Api.route (file:///Applications/Joplin.app/Contents/Resources/lib/serv

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/55) · 2026-06-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature request: Moving Notebooks to a different parent

I am using MCP to help me restructure some of the categories and hierarchy I have in my notebooks. However, it cannot move a notebook to another parent it seems. That would be a nice feature.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/53) · 2026-05-17 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature request: Pass the OCRed content from Joplin over MCP

Joplin has an OCR function which it uses automatically. Right click a pasted image in Joplin and click "View OCR text". I am not sure how this is implemented exactly but it would be great if MCP can also access the OCRed text. Which would make search more comprehensive.

For example:

<img width="958" height="455" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7d509143-2507-4321-b937-dc391c96c13f" />

<img width="561" height="349" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/52) · 2026-05-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Can't search notes in notebooks with emojis

I'm not sure the title is correct or if it's really due to emojis, but for some reason OpenCode is unable to search notes in projects that have emojis.

I've tried with Big Pickle and Opus 4.5. At first, Big Pickle was unable to find the notes, whereas Opus was able to find them through other means (see session-ses_4013.md).

However, both were able to see notes in notebook whose names did not contain emojis.

[session-ses_4013.md](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/24879616/session-ses_4

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-01-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

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