Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
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 ...
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 ...
Allow !move command to take note sections as destinations
For !move tasks, or extract to another note, it would be nice to use the # notation to select a heading to move it to, in a similar way to when you're inserting [[ ...
Functionality to reorder tag shortcuts
For example if I'm in task view and I want to reorder my tag favorites, right now I have to unfavorite them and then favorite them in the right order. I would like to ...
Allow to set several reminders for a single task
Currently, a task can have one reminder. It could be relevant to be able to set up more than one. Use cases are many, but here is a simple example: have a reminder a ...
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.
Consolidated Calendar View of All Domains
It would be nice to have toggles for the domains in the Calendar just like calendar toggles in Google Calendar. It's kinda hard to schedule tasks referencing ...
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.
ISO date support
ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD) have a lot of good properties, like being able to search for incrementally narrower chunks of time and being ordered properly. There should be ...
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 ...
Improve task completion behavior
Now it is possible to "cross out" a task. Great but, this is an incomplete solution for people coming from other tools such as Roam. To cross out a task now, you have ...
Improve how all day tasks are handled (ie not 1440 minutes)
Currently, the way Amplenote considers a task as an all-day task is when a task begins at 00:00 and duration is set to 1440 minutes.
However, this way of defining ...
Change a single occurrence in a recurring task
Changing a single occurrence of a task in a a recurring task is currently not possible - unless, that occurrence is the first one that is going to take place.
When ...
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 ...
Link to tags
I use tagging to structure my notes, so for example, by selecting a tag I can see all notes related to a project, or I can see all notes of a certain type.
It ...
Use system fonts
It would help immensely for the app to feel more at home on various devices, to use the standard system font on any given device. It feels out of place to use the ...
Real restore from backup - Add an "Import Amplenote" option
This sounds very important to me. Amplenote can't restore a backup easily as it don't reconstruct Tags hierarchy. This is stressing me a lot lol. Please copnsider ...
Add options for tag sorting
It would be great to see an option that changes the tag order in the sidebar.
Rather than ordering them alphabetically, I would love to be able to order them by the ...
Upload & embed audio content + audio playback (web/desktop)
It would be great for us freelance music producers and audio engineers, particularly as it pertains project management (tasks), especially when collaborating.
Would ...
Allow a TASK with NO TIME.
It feels like AN assumes everyone does "time blocking" and is compelled to assign a "time" to a task. I schedule Appointments, meetings, events on the calendar ...
Treatment of completed tasks in synchronised calendars
Hi. Recent subscriber having moved from Todoist + Tascaly for timeblocking but really enjoying Amplenote.
I'm using Amplenote pretty heavily for time-blocking now ...
Natural Language Processing on tasks
Many popular todo apps such as Todoist or TickTick has the Natural Language Processing abilities during the creation of task. For example, if you have the following ...
Roam Research-style merge of notes
Sometimes duplicate notes on the same or similar topics are created and it makes sense to merge them so that the backlinks are in one place and the graph becomes ...
Notification Quick Actions
Give easy access to task actions inside the notification. For example, Marking as Complete, Rescheduling, etc.
See: ...
Tag icons (emoji)
Usually tags mean some category or class of notes. It would be convenient to see note category (tag) inline, for example, all notes tagged "book" could be displayed ...
Ability to lock / unlock app with password or Face ID
Because of privacy concerns, I would really like the ability to lock the app using a password or Face ID. I know that the iPhones already have the phone lock, but ...
Ability to limit recurring tasks to weekdays only
Example: I have a task that needs to be performed on the first five working days (I.e. weekdays) of each month. Currently AN doesn’t allow this functionality for ...
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 ...
Provide Keyboard Shortcuts for non-US layouts or customizable shortcuts
Non-US layouts often don't have keys that are used in common shortcuts such as "/" or "[". Adding alternatives for these users would help with workflows and reach in ...
Alexa/Google home integrations
Allow voice assistants to create quick tasks to either a default note or the daily jot
Add 'OR' to Filter TASKS by Note Reference
At present, on the AmpleNote Tasks page (https://www.amplenote.com/notes/tasks), there exists a filtering mechanism that allows for filtering of tasks by Note ...
Dictation / Speech to text feature for new jots
Other apps allow you to connect to Google Speech API. Which would be such a timesaver, especially when used on mobile devices, while on the go, and you suddenly have ...
Drag Headings to reorder
We can drag bulleted list and task items around in a note to change their order, but I can't seem to drag headings. This would seem to be an oversight. Thanks!
Daily Email Reminder
The option of a daily email reminder with tasks. Upcoming, Due Today, Overdue, etc.
Collapse / Expand in loked note
The lock note feature is superb. However, reading will be much smoother, if we can collapse / expand in locked note itself.
Make it easier to create nested tags
Let's say you already have a nested tag called "business/marketing", but you want to create a third layer in the hierarchy called "analytics", i.e. ...
Create a toggle option to remove a completed task synced to the google calendar
In the past it looks like when a task that was synced to the google calendar was checked in AN it removed it from the calendar. It looks like Bill changed the option ...
Filter task in calendar by task duration
Sometimes I have short time blocks so wanted to see what are some quick tasks i can finish during that time. Will be great if we can filter task by different time ...
Allow search bar for tasks in calendar view
In calendar view, on the right sidebar, include search bar for tasks. Right now, it has "sort by task score" and "tag filters" only.
UPPERCASE, lowercase, Capitalize
Mac has transformations that can be applied to a selected text-segment. They are: Make Uppercase, Make Lowercase, Capitalize
I cannot be alone in sometimes hitting ...
Multi Tag Selection Shortcut for Notes
Same feature that's available for jots and tasks
Add more context (task's source-note) to the calendar for tasks without dates. => Grouping!
At the moment the undated tasks have no reference to the note they are created from.
For example I have the Tasks from all my projects in a calendar domain. Now I ...
Hide Tags from List
Would like the ability to hide tags from list in sidebar. This also helps in decluttering or even needing to spend time in thinking of a system to declutter. ...
Image Popup / Modal
When clicking an image in a note, i'd like the image to "pop up" in the editor itself, instead of opening in a browser window.
Note: on the modal/pop-up if it's ...
Create a new task from the Task section
When I'm in the task section (https://www.amplenote.com/notes/tasks), I would expect to be able to create a new task. Instead, I have to go into a note in order to ...
MFA/2FA/TOTP backup codes
Most likely won't happen to me as I use a password manager for my passwords and codes, but still I don't feel comfortable without a backup code just in case. This is ...
Custom Favicon/emoji for Notes
I bookmark my notes.
Would be nice to have a custom favicon for them similar to how it is on Notion so that I can easily find them as there are a lot.
Save PDFs via Amplecap
Being able to add a PDF directly to Amplenote via Amplecap (like Evernote allows)
Localized date and time calculations
It's not convenient to switch my main keyboard layout to english in order to write expressions like {Today} or {In three hours}. For example in russian much more ...
Import tasks from custom JSON/CSV
Originally had the idea for importing Todoist task exports. Custom → platform-agnostic in case other task management apps export in JSON/CSV format and name their ...