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: today 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: 08 Jun 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: yesterday Comments: 16
Planned tasks

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: 08 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium notes

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: 20 May Comments: 23
Under consideration effort-high mobile

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: today Comments: 3
Not planned

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: 11 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low mobile

Allow editing calendar events from Google/Outlook

Suggested by: Lucas (12 Mar, '22) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 11
Under consideration calendar effort-high

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 ...
Suggested by: Buma (06 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 12
Under consideration effort-high tasks

Add support for RTL language

Right to left writing)
Suggested by: mako (08 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 14
Under consideration editor effort-medium

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 ...
Suggested by: Farris (11 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 5
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Paste Markdown

It would be really nice to be able to paste Markdown text into a note so that it remains its formatting. For example if I paste "[Amplenote](https://amplenote.com)" ...
Suggested by: Diederik Hoogenboom (08 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 17 May Comments: 8
Under consideration editor effort-medium

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: today Comments: 3
Not planned notes

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: yesterday 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: yesterday 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: yesterday Comments: 13
Not planned editor

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

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

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: 2 days ago Comments: 6
Under consideration effort-low note-linking

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: 11 Jun Comments: 3
Under consideration effort-low ui

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

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: 08 Jun Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

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

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: 04 Jun Comments: 10
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

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 ...
Suggested by: Kendall (07 Apr, '21) Upvoted: 03 Jun Comments: 3
Under consideration effort-medium security

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 ...
Suggested by: CT (07 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 3
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 ...
Suggested by: luxetumbra (03 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium searching

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 ...
Suggested by: Jose (02 May, '22) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration attachments effort-high

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: 27 May Comments: 4
Under consideration effort-high syncing

Preview google docs in rich footnotes

Lucian edited May 4th 2024 to refer to only google docs --- I love the ability to embed google sheets, images, and videos in rich footnotes and now that those can ...
Suggested by: Derek Thurber (02 May, '24) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 1

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 ...
Suggested by: Adrian (30 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 4
Planned ui

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 ...
Suggested by: Mario (12 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 4
Under consideration effort-low mobile

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: 26 May Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-low ui

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 ...
Suggested by: Fractal0011 (09 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 4

Assign tags based on Notebook from Evernote import

Many people use notebooks as their organisation structure in Evernote rather than tags. Given that Amplenote has heirarchical tags as the default organiser, could we ...
Suggested by: Nick C (10 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 22 May Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low importing

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: 22 May Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-low ui

Keep formatting from emails

When I forward an email to amplenote please keep the formatting.
Suggested by: Simon (09 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 1

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: 19 May Comments: 5
Under consideration calendar effort-high

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: 17 May Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-high tasks

Mirror Bullet items in the same way we can mirror tasks

The task mirroring function has been a really great feature, I'd like to be able to see that in the bulleted items as well. I use start dates in bullets to make them ...
Suggested by: Joe Baxter (25 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 17 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

Mobile Calendar grid line - 30 min increments

Grid-line in 30-minute time increments. App currently has 1 hour grid-line increments
Suggested by: Wade (03 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 16 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-high mobile

Android Calendar: Easy and Fluid Start Time and Duration Changes

In the calendar view on mobile, adjusting the start time and duration of events could be made more intuitive. For example: - To change the start time, allow users ...
Suggested by: Josh (08 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 16 May Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-high mobile ui

Note reference within Rich Footnotes

Hi, I usually write my thoughts related to some workflows in footnotes and want to use note references within the text Description area of footnotes. This helps me ...
Suggested by: Pratik (23 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 16 May Comments: 0

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: 13 May Comments: 2
Planned

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: 11 May Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-low searching

Undoing recurring tasks should restore task to note like regular tasks

Currently, if you undo or uncheck a recurring task it won't restore to the note and instead it will just create the next scheduled task and the task you undo ...
Suggested by: Polymathical (24 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

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: 11 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Calendar bug

There is sometimes a very annoying layering "bug" on the calendar... When planning two tasks at the same time, the task that starts first is on the first layer; this ...
Suggested by: Josh (21 Nov, '24) Upvoted: 10 May Comments: 0
Under consideration calendar effort-low ui