Suggestions for improving Amplenote

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: 11 Jul 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: 06 Jul Comments: 16
Planned tasks

Support overall note content font size adjustement (or sync with iOS/Android global setting)

As simple as it sounds. The default text size can be a tad small at times, so it would be useful to have an option to adjust it in Settings.
Suggested by: Aurelius (28 Jan, '21) Upvoted: today Comments: 25

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: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-low searching

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: 2 days ago Comments: 4
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

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: 10 Jul Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium ui

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: 07 Jul Comments: 0
Under consideration mobile

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: 06 Jul Comments: 23
Under consideration effort-high mobile

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: 06 Jul Comments: 18
Under consideration effort-low 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

Add collaborative commenting features

When a note is shared, it would be helpful to have a full UI for commenting or suggesting changes, and have those changes be made clear to the original author. It ...
Suggested by: Moderator (06 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 5
Under consideration effort-high sharing

Email-to-note should include attachments

Support for importing email attachments when using email-to-note
Suggested by: Hugh (13 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 16

Attach any file type (size can be limited)

Amplenote only support few file types but if it support any file type that it really helps keep the note together. There have been cases where I need to save license ...
Suggested by: MK (15 Jun, '24) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration attachments effort-medium

Long note titles should wrap in order to fit on the screen

When using a Zettelkasten or similar note-taking method that focuses on atomic notes (i.e. one note should contain one piece of information), the note title ...
Suggested by: Sami (02 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Keep formatting from emails

When I forward an email to amplenote please keep the formatting.
Suggested by: Simon (09 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1

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 ...
Suggested by: luxetumbra (03 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium searching

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: 2 days ago Comments: 14

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: 2 days ago Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium notes

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: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium searching

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: 14 Jul Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-high notes

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: 09 Jul Comments: 6
Under consideration effort-low note-linking

Add calDAV capability to integrate with calendars

Expand calendar integration beyond google and microsoft.
Suggested by: NIK (15 May, '21) Upvoted: 08 Jul Comments: 11
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

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: 07 Jul Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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