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. ...
Suggested by: Chris (14 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 18
Under consideration effort-low tasks

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 ...
Suggested by: Matjaž (15 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 22
Planned ui

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 ...
Suggested by: Lucian (05 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 16
Planned tasks

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 ...
Suggested by: C L (22 May, '22) Upvoted: 03 Jul Comments: 3
Under consideration effort-low ui

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 ...
Suggested by: Joe (02 Aug, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

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 ...
Suggested by: Craig (22 Mar, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 23
Under consideration effort-high mobile

Make attachments availalbe offline (on mobile)

Note is available offline with all the files contained in the note, i.e. pictures and pdfs. I travel a lot and before I go on a trip I mark certain notes or notebooks ...
Suggested by: Marcin (14 Aug, '23) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration mobile

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 ...
Suggested by: Marieke Burghoorn (21 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 02 Jul Comments: 5
Under consideration calendar effort-high

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.
Suggested by: Alexander (06 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 30 Jun Comments: 4
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

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. ...
Suggested by: Franz (12 Jul, '24) Upvoted: 25 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-high tasks

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
Suggested by: Chris Whittle (06 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium mobile

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 ...
Suggested by: Judi (21 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 4
Under consideration effort-medium ui

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 ...
Suggested by: John Smith (19 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium notes

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 ...
Suggested by: Brendan (16 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 16 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low mobile

Add calDAV capability to integrate with calendars

Expand calendar integration beyond google and microsoft.
Suggested by: NIK (15 May, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 11
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

OR/AND/NOT operators for tag and group search queries

Allow search combinations with Boolean search AND, OR and NOT. (moderator edit: changed title to specifically mention search queries with "in" and "group", since ...
Suggested by: Joey (13 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 04 Jul Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-low searching

Bullet Threading

This feature would visually connect bullets with lines to show the relationships between parent and child bullets, making it easier to follow the structure of nested ...
Suggested by: Rafael (08 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 04 Jul Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Task tags

Currently, only notes can have tasks. As someone that combines productivity organisation with journaling and making memo's I love how tasks are aggregated from ...
Suggested by: Casper (20 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 02 Jul Comments: 2
Not planned

Filter tasks by tag

Amplenote allows me to filter tasks by Note Reference. However, I might want to filter my tasks across all notes that share the same tag for a better contextual ...
Suggested by: Jack Elliott (02 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 29 Jun Comments: 2
Not planned

Subtask follows Parent Task's detail

Subtasks under Parent task should be following the recurrence and also due date and start dates. Is it already in or is it not possible? I've been trying but it just ...
Suggested by: Rino Cheng (27 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 27 Jun Comments: 1

Serve encrypted images in Vault Notes

As described at https://www.amplenote.com/help/security_images_and_other_uploaded_content, it is implausible that an actor could discover Amplenote images, but there ...
Suggested by: Bill (10 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 27 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-high security

Manual sort option in Task view

If tasks are manually sorted in a note, this is lost in Task view and it is not an option to sort by order in note. Either preserve it by default or add it as a sort ...
Suggested by: Craig (30 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 25 Jun Comments: 6
Under consideration effort-low tasks

Task filters

Right now there's no real way to filter tasks based off of any of the task attributes.
Suggested by: Revanth (05 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 25 Jun Comments: 1
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 ...
Suggested by: Lucian (14 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 23 Jun Comments: 10
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Built-in Spaced Repetition System

To facilitate learning through our notes, we often use the Spaced Repetition System. Amplenote has some preliminary example to do this by setting the question as a ...
Suggested by: ocind (21 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 20 Jun Comments: 4
Not planned tasks

Allow filtering of Task dependency types in Task & Calendar views

With the new task dependency filter, it would be helpful to build a filtering capability in the overall Task and Calendar views. The most pressing filter needed is ...
Suggested by: Elessar (22 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 18 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium searching

Wildcard characters for searching

Support use of wildcard characters for searching. For example, *123 would return notes with AB123. Or *123* would find AB123CD.
Suggested by: CL (12 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium searching

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
Suggested by: A (14 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium task-score

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 ...
Suggested by: Steve Sjoquist (26 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-low tagging

Rule based tags

It would be great to have the ability to create rules which auto tag notes. E.g: based on the title
Suggested by: Andras (27 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

Keep completed tasks for longer than 6 weeks

This is an attempt to reopen the "Keep completed tasks for longer than 3 weeks" suggestion: ...
Suggested by: weird (28 May, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 1
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 ...
Suggested by: Will Griffin (07 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 15
Under consideration effort-high tasks

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 ...
Suggested by: Hyeyoun (25 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-high tables

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 ...
Suggested by: Andrey (30 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-high notes

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.
Suggested by: Nathielly (13 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-low localization

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 ...
Suggested by: jejous (16 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low searching

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 ...
Suggested by: Timoy (16 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 2
Planned

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 ...
Suggested by: ben (09 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low ui

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 ...
Suggested by: Brian Lennon (20 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-low ui

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).
Suggested by: Matt (16 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 17 Jun Comments: 4
Under consideration effort-high syncing

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 ...
Suggested by: Reilly (17 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 15 Jun Comments: 3
Not planned notes

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
Suggested by: David F (28 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 15 Jun Comments: 3
Not planned

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 ...
Suggested by: Brittany (13 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 14 Jun Comments: 2

Shortcut Alias

Give shortcuts a friendly name... This is especially helpful when combining tags in the shortcut. Similar to apple notes smart folders.
Suggested by: Mikel (22 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 14 Jun Comments: 4
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 ...
Suggested by: Moderator (06 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 14 Jun Comments: 13
Not planned editor

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 ...
Suggested by: Erich Angermayr (27 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 13 Jun Comments: 6
Under consideration effort-low note-linking

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.
Suggested by: Brian Cohen (28 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 09 Jun Comments: 14

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 ...
Suggested by: sasaki (10 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 08 Jun Comments: 8
Under consideration effort-high notes

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 ...
Suggested by: robb (04 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 07 Jun Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-high tasks

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 ...
Suggested by: Vince (11 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 04 Jun Comments: 8
Not planned