Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Fold/collapse headings
Now that we have foldable bullets, we should be able to extend it to headings too!
View/open PDFs inline within note (no separate download)
It would be helpful to read PDFs within the note rather than having an external attachment.
Graph view
Make relation between notes more obvious.
Add Table Creation in editor
We love to use tables in notes - Adding a table creation option would be nice.
Desktop App for Mac and Windows
The Chrome app takes quite a while to load especially on slow connections and still requires net access.
Would be nice to have a desktop app for offline use and on ...
Done
Show inline-completed tasks in completed task stats
It would be nice to have the option to choose whether or not my completed todo items move down into a different section. Sometimes I'd like them to stay inline.
Create Amplenote home-screen widgets for Android/iOS
This would make it easy to locate Amplenote on my Android.
Moderator edit: updated title to include iOS too.
To have a second note screen
One note screen to explore and one note screen to collect notes to create a page with unique relations to this project. (sreenshot is coming from Roam Research) In ...
Allow renaming links when linked note is renamed
Hi, when updating a note title, it would be useful if all the notes that link to that note could have their text updated to reflect that new title. Please see below ...
Connect to Apple Calendar
I was pretty excited to start using Amplenote when I saw the calendar function and particularly the option to drag and drop tasks into the spaces between existing ...
Inline tags
It would be nice to add tags to a note inline instead of having to go up to the tag list above the note. This would make it very easy to tag a note while typing. E.g. ...
Drawing / handwriting (iOS)
Ability to draw/hand write, particularly on iPad. Currently I paste screenshots of GoodNotes - not even close to an ideal solution. Appreciate this one is probably a ...
Multi-select of notes
I can't select or choose notes in your app. It will be good if I can add new tags all to many notes or combine them to one note with multi-select function.
Configurable week start (Sunday/Monday)
Especially for the "www.amplenote.com/notes/tasks?group=dueThisWeek" view please make it an option to have the week start on Monday.
Allow attaching Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Text documents into a note
Amplenote currently allows embedding PDFs into notes, and movies into Rich Footnotes. For this task, let's flesh that out so that Amplenote can allow Word, Excel, ...
Allow notes to be converted to and exported as PDFs
It would be great to offer users the option to download a note as certain file types OR to simply to convert the note to PDF, given how commonly used PDFs are. ...
Search for tasks
Like the main search feature but a way to only search tasks and not all note content.
Table of contents
I often take detailed reading and study notes but also write 2000+ word blog posts. The length makes it difficult to quickly get an overview over the note. I'd like ...
Need to be able to rename and reorganize tags
Need to be able to rename tags. Also need to be able to reorganize the tag hierarchy, which might be doable through the same rename facility. For example to move ...
(Android app) Add share to Amplenote option
Would allow you to share a link, a file, etc (maybe selected text also). Thanks!
Allow for hideable sub-tasks aka collapsible/foldable bullet points
Preferably by toggle or folding. Like Workflowy/Roam.
Allow a quick task on mobile to create today's daily jot
Often times the first thing I think of in the morning is a task todo today. It would be helpful if that task could be added from the Quick to-do bar on mobile even if ...
Readwise Integration
I recently switched from Roam Research to Amplenote and the thing that's impacting most my normal workflow is the lack of direct Readwise (https://readwise.io) ...
More themes and styling
Would really like to be able to customize with my own themes / colors and fonts, like Obsidian and Roam.
May 2022 Update: Several different colors launched to web ...
iOS Share Sheet
It would be awesome, if Amplenote showed up in the iOS share sheet. The idea is that I could, say, highlight/select text in an article I'm reading and send that to ...
Notes templates
Option to create templates for notes
Adjust calendar colors
The ability to change blocks in calendar to different colors for better visualization of schedule and tasks.
Done
Add syntax highlighting for code blocks
Would be great if we could add code blocks with syntax highlighting. e.g.
```python
print('hello world')
```
Compact notes list
I would like to be able to scroll over more notes in the middle column when in Notes mode. I don't always have it in my mind what I'm looking for or I want an ...
Calendar mode color coding of tasks
Moderator edit: updated title to match a request for "color coding of tasks".
I do not separate between web and ios
- 24 hours format
- color coding for tasks ...
Display tags in Quick to-do on mobile
If you keep notes under different tags in Jots, and you wish to add a task from the Quick to-do bar mobile, you cannot differentiate between Jots notes titled with ...
Ability to search within a note on mobile
When the Search feature takes me to the note I'm looking for on mobile (Android, in my case), it can be frustrating to find what I'm seeking within a lengthy note ...
Prevent accidentally deleting notes
Move delete option to the "more options" section and preferably the last option to pick, maybe even a slight distance to the next last.
I'm not sure if this too ...
Task View Today Shortcut
I would like a new shortcut added that shows only tasks with a due date of "Today/Overdue". While being able to see what needs to be done across the week is nice, ...
Hide tags without tasks on mobile
I find it useful on desktop that only tags with tasks in the notes are shown on the sidebar when in Tasks mode, and "task-less" tags are hidden. I think this could ...
Month view on mobile calendar
Desperately need a month calendar view on mobile apps. Useless to me just to see the next couple hours. I use month view on calendars constantly to zoom out and get a ...
Add daily notes automatically like in Roam
Love to start with a daily note. Especially for logging. But also when a date is added make a note for that day.
Web Clipper - Capture highlighted text only
A third option to only capture the currently highlighted text (as text, not a picture) would be very useful.
Add note to the meeting on calendar
Hi,
I would like to have the possibility to go to calendar, choose the meeting and then create a note for that meeting. When creating the note have on it the name ...
(on Web App) Be able to add tasks from Tasks Mode
* On mobile, you're able to add a task while in Tasks Mode
* But on web app, you're not able to do this. You're forced to go to a note page and create a task and go ...
Create a master list of all todos
The master list should show all todos together. Sorting would impact each sub-todo list. This would give a way to see everything that I need to do next, regardless ...
Natural language input for dates/times in tasks on mobile
Basically something like todoist or ticktick. That makes quick capture so much easier
Moderator note: I've changed the title of this request to refer to mobile ...
Filter by certain level in tag hierarchy
That is, offer the option to filter by a tag and exclude notes tagged with children tags.
For example, one could ctrl+click on "#wiki" to include all notes tagged ...
Need sidebar to toggle "dark mode" / "light mode"
Provide distinct "light/day" and "dark/night" themes for the entire interface, and allow easy switching between the two. The current hybrid of the dark left sidebar ...
Dark Mode for Mobile App
Hi there,
I sometimes use the web browser version on my ipad in the evening because it has dark mode. The mobile version seems to only provide lighg modd, and it ...
Ability to link to headings in the currently opened note
Links to parts of a note would be really helpful, (i.e. for creating things like Table of Contents for a really long note)
Lucian adds: Since we now have ...