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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)" ...
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 ...
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 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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Whiteboard / Canvas
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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 ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Keep formatting from emails
When I forward an email to amplenote please keep the formatting.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Mobile Calendar grid line - 30 min increments
Grid-line in 30-minute time increments. App currently has 1 hour grid-line increments
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...