Suggestions for improving Amplenote
Add a task with a START date without requiring a specific START time.
I would like to be able to add a task with a due date without having to add a specific due time. Perhaps you could add a “none” option to the due time drop down list. ...
Preserve task hierarchy in Tasks view
Currently task hierarchy is not preserved in the Tasks view, that is tasks are not visually indented under their parent task.
I think this would make a good voting ...
Ability to pin notes in the notes list
There should be an ability to pin notes to the top of a notes list (not as shortcuts to the sidebar).
This avoids visual clogging on the sidebar, and lets you can ...
Support Opening amplenote.com URL in Mobile App Rather Than Browser
When I open my synced Google calendar on my phone and click a task created from AmpleNote, there is a link in the description to the note that the task lives in. When ...
24 hour selection
It would be nice to have in settings slider/check if you want 12/24 hour. And showing Monday as week start.
Lucian's edit: configurable week start votes can go at ...
Calendar Zoom
Allow for the trackpad zoom function to be applied in the calendar view. By zooming in you expand the hours and by zooming out you shrink the hours, so that you can ...
Drag & Drop Tasks on mobile
If you have different blocks or sections of tasks within the same note, there’s no way to move a task between them. You can copy & paste the text but then lose all ...
Display Actual Date/Time Rather Than Natural Language Date Reference
Suggestion: The note list should (IMO) have the real date and time easily visible without extra steps.
Reasoning: Right now, the dates and times are in a natural ...
Visual indicator that a task is a repeating task
I create many repeating tasks. It would be useful to have a visual indicator that a task is a repeating task, so a user doesn't have to open the task details to ...
Self-hosted Amplenote
Let's make amplenote self-hostable so that we can install and use amplenote in corporate datacenters (look at atlassian as an example).
Allow shortcuts to be reorganized
Please allow the shortcuts of both the notes and tasks to be reorganized in different orders by dragging and dropping on the sidebar. In order to have a task manager ...
Add compact calendar view
With my screen resolution I'm only able to fit around 6 hours of calendar time into a single view.
I'd love the ability to adjust the compactness of the calendar ...
Add badge count for Tasks that are due.
I want to see a number of what tasks are due so i don’t forget about them when working in other apps
Allow resizable/adjustable left hand columns width in Notes View
Some note titles are long or begin with similar words. It would be appreciated if I could make the center list column wider (or wrap text) dynamically so I can see ...
add global ability to turn auto-archive on and off.
Simply want to turn the feature (not just for specific notes). I have a lot of reference data saved and it's annoying to do this page by page
Not planned
Add support for RTL language
Right to left writing)
Allow underline of text
Allow people to underline text in a note. That's essential to most writing styles. Though I love so many things about AmpleNote, the inability to underline text ...
Wildcard characters for searching
Support use of wildcard characters for searching. For example, *123 would return notes with AB123. Or *123* would find AB123CD.
Way to view task Score for a given calender day
I like having a quantifiable score for how many tasks I have assigned to a day or completed in a given day
Provide ability to add a sub tag to an existing tag
In the current version I can only add a new tag using the three dots menu in the TAGS sidebar item.
Adding a new sub tag to an existing tag difficult because I need ...
Rule based tags
It would be great to have the ability to create rules which auto tag notes. E.g: based on the title
Keep completed tasks for longer than 6 weeks
This is an attempt to reopen the "Keep completed tasks for longer than 3 weeks" suggestion: ...
Not planned
More control over recurrence interval
Allow different intervals (every hour, every quarter, every year, every other Monday, the third Monday of the month, the last day of the month, etc) and allow ...
Merge cells in table
I usually use table to organize data.
I see the editor supports creating table but it seems I can't merge cells in the table.
It would be nice if we could merge ...
More than 3 task domains
I'm unsure why there is a limit of three task domains, maybe there is a good idea behind that decision, but I would personally like one or two more.
Allow customizable date format for daily jots
For example:
- 2020-10-09
- september 4 ,1990
More here : https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/
It be more simple to reference (for daily jots) to custom ...
Preserve task position when marking a completed task as uncompleted
If you complete a task, then from the "Completed" tab mark that same task uncomplete (by unchecking the task), the task will be placed at the bottom of the note. ...
Rename the standard tag "daily-jots"
English is not my first language and i would like to change the name of this tag to feel more familiar with it.
Ignore accents when searching
As a french guy, i often use accent when writing,
but searching in Amplenote is not safe for me :
for example i search the word "référence" it won"'t find my note ...
Task Controls in the UI
Typing an ! with a command is tedious, especially on mobile.
Adding UI Task Controls for the rest of the commands, especially "Move" or "Mirror" would make the app ...
Planned
Delete empty notes after some amount of time
I have a bunch of old notes in my account that I created but never filled, so they have no note body and their title is still "Untitled note". It might be nice to ...
Support note aliases
I make a note for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If I want that to find more references for that note, currently it will only search for instances of that EXACT ...
Shortcut Alias
Give shortcuts a friendly name... This is especially helpful when combining tags in the shortcut. Similar to apple notes smart folders.
Not planned
Allow aliases / automatic text substitution
It would be helpful to be able to prescribe aliases for phrases that I type regularly. For example, if I regularly write "AN" for "Amplenote", I should be able to set ...
Copy note URL
No matter if you use the Web app or Android, there should be the option to copy the note URL with one click (other than copy/pasting from the browser). Ideally, that ...
Allow editing text and tasks that are backlinked from the Backlinks tab
Currently, when a task is backlinked, it is not clickable/editable. It would be good if one could both complete and edit a task as part of a Note's backlink.
Whiteboard / Canvas
Dear All, It is a pleasure to meet you.
Now, I propose a whiteboard.
Whiteboards can be utilized in the workflow.
It helps to visually distinguish the status of ...
Bulk editing of tasks
1. User should be able to via shift click or other mechanism select a number of tasks.
2. User should then be able to alter attributes of collection of tasks in ...
Add workspaces or areas
Hi,
I’m really enjoying Amplenote for work. I have a number of other roles in my life that I would like to use AN for. However, I need my notes to be kept separate ...
Not planned
Ctrl + drag-and-drop to reschedule only the current instance of a recurring task
Would be cool to have an option for changing the start date (or maybe even the duration?) of a single occurrence of a repeating task.
Holding Ctrl while dragging ...
Ability to automatically apply Vault encryption to certain notes
Similar to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/password-protect-your-notes-e5ffd8fd-e811-441a-aa02-e13f0f445933
Currently, you can only vault-protect each ...
Show all unscheduled tasks in the right pane while in Calendar view
One point that separates your app from others is that we can easily schedule the tasks into the calendar, but I was disappointed to find out that I had to manually ...
Not planned
Add a way to search for attached PDF files and/or notes with PDF files.
I like to add PDFs to notes but then finding them becomes a chore. It would be great to have a way to query for attachments and notes with attachments (not the same ...
Make OCR recognize mutiple columns of text
I take notes by hand, and screenshot them into amplenote, quite a bit. When there are two columns, the OCR doesn't 'get it', and writes out the text for two columns ...
Kanban view
It would be great if you could check your tasks in Kanban view based on their statuses. Every status could be a column in the Kanban view. You could change the tasks ...
Preview google docs in rich footnotes
Lucian edited May 4th 2024 to refer to only google docs
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I love the ability to embed google sheets, images, and videos in rich footnotes and now that those can ...
Add distraction-free mode (Zen mode, focus mode)
Please (re)consider my suggestion, I've seen two similar ones rejected, and I believe that the assumptions where different, because you suggested Jots as a better ...
Default view mode when app is opened
Moderator edit January 2025: let's consider this suggestion for both mobile and desktop.
When you open the app, the last opened view remains by default: for ...
Nested tasks should inherit their parent item/note affiliation
Having recently migrated from Roam, I was trying to find a way to compile notes and tasks from multiple project on daily jots, but have been frustrated that tasks are ...