Enhancer for Plane — Quick Open & Issue Templates

Issue templates, quick open by key, copy reference, and a focus mode that hides the side panels — inside the Plane UI.

Every issue tracker leaves the same gaps. No reusable templates for the tickets you file over and over, and no way to open an item from its key. Nothing hands one to a chat message without retyping it, and nothing puts the side panels away so you can read. This fills them inside the Plane UI, on any plan, with no changes to your Plane server. It runs on Plane Cloud and on self-hosted Plane, and each release is checked against a live instance of each. ✨ WHAT YOU GET — at a glance ⚡ Quick open — a work item from its key: address bar, popup, or right-click 📝 Issue templates — fill a title and body in one click 📋 Copy reference — hand an item to chat, a PR or a branch name 📐 Width & style rules — read every name in full 🧘 Focus mode — put the side panels away 🎯 Element picker — build a rule without DevTools 🔄 Template sync — one set of templates for the whole team Nothing runs inside a page until you enable a site for it. ⚡ Go straight to a work item — quick open Type "issue" in the address bar, a space, then a key like PROJ-142, and Enter opens it. The same box is on the toolbar popup, and both offer the keys you opened last. Pin the items you keep returning to, and the popup holds them for you. A key almost never arrives on its own; it arrives inside a sentence, in a Slack message or a pull request title. Select it anywhere, right-click, and choose "Open work items from selection" — nothing to type, nothing to set up. Several keys open in their own tabs, up to 10 at a time. Setting the link up is one paste: copy the address of any work item you have open and it falls out of it, search address included. Plane, Jira, Linear, GitHub and GitLab are recognised by name, and several can coexist: point ENG- at Linear and leave the rest on Plane. Type words instead of a key and it searches instead. It only opens a URL, so it asks for no site access at all and works on any tab. 📝 Fill a work item in one click — issue templates (title + body) Register a template once, drop it into any work item with one click — title and description together. A native "Template" button sits in the description toolbar and in the "Create work item" dialog (Alt/⌥+T). Bodies are Markdown: headings, lists, checkboxes. On a long menu the three templates you used last sit at the top, so a team pack is not a scroll every time. Variables fill themselves in on insert — {{date}}, {{date+7}} for a deadline, {{week}}, {{month}} — plus up to 5 of your own. Plane's own work item templates are a Pro feature; these run on any instance, including a free self-hosted one. 📋 Hand off a work item in one click — copy reference The button beside a work item's ID (or Alt/⌥+C) copies it to your clipboard as plain text, a Markdown link, or a branch name. Every format is a row you can edit into your own, previewed in Settings. It works on the item's own page, in the preview panel a list opens, and from the toolbar popup on any tracker you have a link for. 📐 Read every name in full — width & style rules Plane cuts long names off in lists and dropdowns until you can't tell items apart. One "selector → property → value" rule forces any width, and the names come back. It's a generic CSS engine, so if Plane's class names change between versions you just edit the selector. Settings shows when each rule last matched anything, and flags one that never has. A redesign is then one line to fix instead of a feature that quietly went away. Plane Cloud folds a long description behind "Show all" every time an item opens; two rules that ship switched on show all of it. 🧘 Just the description — focus mode Alt+Shift+F (⌥+⇧+F on macOS) hides the properties panel and the left navigation, so the body is what is left. There is a toggle beside the item's key too, and a switch in the popup. Plane pins those properties to the right with no way to collapse them; this collapses them. Any rule can be marked "Only while focus mode is on", so what disappears is up to you. It applies to that tab, survives a reload there, and is never synced to your other devices. 🎯 Build rules without DevTools — visual element picker Click "Pick element" in the popup, then click anything on the Plane page. Candidate selectors come back ordered by what will still work next month, each with a match count. Anything the build generated is marked "may change" in words rather than colour. 🔄 One set of templates for the whole team — template sync Point everyone at one JSON file — your intranet, a Git host, any URL — and the whole team pulls the same templates. Off by default; it fetches only the URL you add, on the schedule you choose or on demand. Inserting reads a local cache, so it works offline, and synced templates stay read-only so no one's edits get overwritten. New to it? "Try our example" fills in a live feed so you can watch it work. 🏠 Your instance, wherever it runs Add the domain you use — plane.your-company.com, or app.plane.so. Wildcards (*.example.com) are supported. Self-hosted is where this started, and Plane Cloud is checked against a live instance every release. The two do not draw the same page, so a rule that ships can fit one and not the other. The rules that ship switched on carry both, and Settings shows whether each has ever applied. It ships with no site access: enabling a domain asks Chrome for that one site, and it stays completely inert everywhere else. "Run on all sites" in Settings asks Chrome for every site instead; it is off unless you turn it on. Your settings back up to a JSON file and restore on another machine. 🔒 PRIVACY — nothing leaves your browser No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no server. Your settings live in Chrome's own storage, synced to your Google account only if you use Chrome Sync. The one request this extension can make is downloading the team-template file from a URL you added yourself. It carries none of your data. 🚀 GET STARTED 1. Open your Plane instance — self-hosted or Plane Cloud. 2. Click the toolbar icon and "Enable on this site" (grant access when Chrome prompts). 3. In Settings, paste the address of any work item you have open: that one paste sets up opening, searching and copying at once. 4. Add templates whenever you want them, and adjust the two width rules that ship if they need it. Everything else is optional. Open source. Feedback and issues welcome. Works with Plane (makeplane / plane.so), the open-source project management, issues and wiki tool, and a self-hosted alternative to Jira. An independent, unofficial add-on: not affiliated with or endorsed by Plane, and "Plane" is a trademark of its owner. (And no — nothing to do with airplanes.)