Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Add option to disable auto-archive for notes assigned with specific tags
There may be some use cases where auto-archiving is undesirable (e.g. using Amplenote as a repo of evergreen notes), and the current process to prevent notes from ...
Support renaming tag shortcuts/saved searches
Per the suggestion in https://www.amplenote.com/help/bespoke_kanban_board, I've created a saved that removes any tasks that I keep in my Kanban board but this makes ...
All levels of Bulleted list should indent when you highlight all and tab.
The bulleted list doesn't move that I would expect it to. When I highlight multiple levels and try to indent all of them an additional level. It's only the lowest ...
On-time Reminder
The ability to set a reminder at the exact start time of a task does not exist. If my task is set to start at 9AM this morning, I cannot get a reminder at 9AM. The ...
Give overdue tasks a higher Task Score
I'm new to Amplenote and noticed a weird feature of the Task Score: I had a task that was due yesterday and I forgot to do it. Today, I was surprised to find it ...
Toggle setting to *Hide future jots until the day happens*
I can understand use cases for either setting, so a toggle would be great to *turn off* showing future jots in the jots view.
I'd like to prepare notes like ...
Military time as a time format
I would like to be able to enter 17:00 in the time box instead of 5 PM.
I would not make it mandatory but as a possible setting to be changed based on preferences.
Rename Favorites in Task View
When filtering and searching tasks, once a favorite is created, allow the text displayed in the left sidebar to be renamed.
The advantage this offers is faster ...
Allow more than 5 suggested notes when linking a note to a task or another note
When using the "[[..." to link another note, only a maximum of 5 suggested notes appears. As the number of notes increases, and some of the note content will be ...
Enable access to daily jots in calendar view
For users that use the daily jots function as a daily journal, it might be useful to be able to easily scroll through different days in a period of time for the ...
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 ...
Aligning text to the top of the table's cell
I tend to put sentences in tables' cell, and the vertical alignment is always in the middle. I would love to have an option for vertical alignment as well (top, ...
Show tasks' start date / time / repetition in the Tasks view
When I am in the Tasks mode, I see all my tasks. However, in order to see the tasks' start date / repetition etc, I need to click on each individual task to see what ...
Add notes to existing calendar events in Gcal/Outlook
When reviewing your calendar events with Amplenote, being able to create a linked note to the event would be a huge benefit. A two way link from the Gcal event back ...
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 ...
Quick entry of shortcuts on mobile
Would love to see a menu within the editor on mobile devices that allows for quick entry of shortcuts like {now} or [[=
Some of these characters are several taps ...
Mark calendar events from Amplenote as private
My work calendar is shared with my coworkers, so the can plan meetings with me. Private calendar events are marked as private of course.
Can events created by ...
avoid cliking on the tag when expanding it, it breaks workflow
Each time i need to expand another tag than the actual one, it equals to a click on it and the note list changes. It breaks the flow quite a bit.
Add week number to calendar in week at a glance and month at a glance view
Useful to put the week number in the calendar when in week at a glance and month at a glance view for activities that take multiple weeks.
Warn user when completing a parent task with incomplete subtasks
Either have a popup warning that some steps aren't done or disallow the parent task to be completed until the children are checked off.
View Shortcuts/Global shortcut bar
Shortcuts at the moment are only local to the view you're in, e.g. a tag within Notes, a search within Tasks. But in my workflow I want to switch betwee 'today's ...
Keep tag list expanded when switching views
Every time I switch between Notes, Jots, Tasks, and Calendar view, the tags list is reset to fully collapsed. Since I have set my tags up hierarchically (e.g. I have ...
Parent tag to show only parent tag items, not also children tags items
With hierarchical tags, if you choose a parent tag (e.g. projects) you get all items (e.g. notes) having that specific tag and all other children tags ...
Hide archived notes from Tags view
Archived notes should not be shown normally in the tags(at least not by default). Having them still show up after archiving kind of defeats the purpose of archiving ...
Highlight overdue tasks in Calendar view in mobile app
In web version I go to Calendar view, click red circle in the task list - and see all my tasks that are due in the past.
I would like to have a similar ...
PWA keyboard shortcut for search
Would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut for the search bar in the PWA. We can use the quick open shortcut to search by Note title, but being able to "global search" ...
"Clear formatting" keyboard shortcut
I hate when I've accidentally assigned a heading to something, used strikethrough (esp w/a task), or simply wanting to change my formatting, and don't have one simple ...
Searching Date using DD-MM-YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY
I would like to go back to dates quickly using the search function and quick open functionality.
It would be great if both formats would be implemented: ...
Default image size option for inserted images
This option should allow the user to set the default (initial) image size when it is inserted into a note. I use kind of "visual jots" with smartphone app and if many ...
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 ...
Amplecap - capture to today's jot
I often end up having to manually select today's jot by date when using Amplecap. It's usually near the top of the dropdown list but it's still an extra step. As jots ...
Create a new note with tag applied automatically based on which "tag-view" you are in
I would like to be able to have the tag auto populated if I click "New Note" when I'm in a certain tag view. Like... If I have #tagA selected in the left hand corner ...
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 ...
Add end of month as possible task due date
When creating tasks the due dates are pretty limitless, except the only limit I've thus far ran into--end of month. Whether a month ends on the 28th, 30th or 31st ...
Flexibility to deactivate the automatic popup of Rich Footnotes
Hi I think the Rich Footnotes is a great feature, but the automatic nature is kinda disruptive. I use a note to manage several notes like a Table of Contents. And ...
Toggle auto-tagging of notes as daily-jots
I use Daily Jots as my main scratchpad. Typically I write notes, then go back and turn certain words/phrases into notes by highlighting them then tapping "[". It ...
Tasks sort: grouped by Note, Sort notes by Task Score
In the Tasks view, when using the 'Group tasks by Note' option, it would be useful to be able to sort those notes based on which has the tasks with the highest Task ...
Titlebar Should Show Selected Tag/Jot/Note Title
Currently it just shows Amplenote - which is confusing if you have lots of tabs.
Add "Unscheduled Tasks" title to the Calendar mode
When I click on Calendar, I see all my scheduled tasks on the calendar and all my "unscheduled" tasks on the right side. I know this because I have been using ...
{date calculation} in Templates
Restrict performing the {date} calculation until the template is applied.
Use case:
I can make a "meeting minutes" template and include accurate timestamps. ...
Customizable format for {now}
I love using the {now} function when live journaling in my daily jot. It would be great if I could customize the format of the time that appears when I use the {now} ...
More filtering for calendar domains
I'd like to be able to pre-configure my calendar domains a bit more:
- be able to pre-filter to include+exclude inline tags/referenced notes as the filter I select ...
Make the default start time for tasks configurable
When I use natural language (i.e. "today", "tomorrow") to add a start time to a task, the time always defaults to 9:00 am. I would like this to be configurable ...
Dedicated Tasks tab replacing Completed tab
There is currently a tab titled "Completed" in the Note page, which shows the completed tasks only. In the "Backlinks" we see the tasks AND the backlinks together, ...
Open Top Note by current sorting method from a Tag Shortcut in Notes Mode
Current behavior: If your default shortcut in Notes Mode is a tag rather than a note, then when you switch into Notes Mode it displays a "Tip of the day" in the ...
Default view mode when app is opened (mobile)
When you open the app, the last opened view remains by default: for example, if I was in Calendar view and close the app when I'll open then app again it will be ...
Show Archived Notes in Reference Search
I have a lot of templates with tasks that I like to add to my daily jot using double bracket notation.
These are locked notes, meaning I don't plan on modifying ...
Make the header area sticky
In the desktop version, when scrolling a long page, it is a small pain to scroll up to do note level actions. It would be handy to keep the Title, tags and the ...