Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Show Completed Tasks on Public Notes
I sometimes want to show to a client what tasks I did.
Might be nice to also have an option to show them on non-public notes as well.
Under consideration
public-notes
Expand text editing options
It feels the text editor toolbar is limited from font type, style, size, to formatting paragraphs, etc. a bit of more "Word editing" tools to pretty-up our notes ability
Not planned
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
Manual sort option in Task view
If tasks are manually sorted in a note, this is lost in Task view and it is not an option to sort by order in note. Either preserve it by default or add it as a sort ...
Under consideration
tasks
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 ...
Multi Tag Selection Shortcut for Notes
Same feature that's available for jots and tasks
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 ...
Translate to other languages (Spanish at least :-))
More than a request is an offer to help on the translation of AN to Spanish.
Double-bracket note linking: Improve note suggestion in the middle of a paragraph
Currently in the Amplenote web editor, linking to a note by opening a double bracket only suggests note titles containing text up to the end of the paragraph. ...
Under consideration
note-linking
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" ...
Highlighting Work Hours in Calendar (or hiding night hours)
Please make an option to hide/unhide the night hours so that only work hours can be visible.
When I open the calendar, I need to scroll down depending on the size ...
Agenda View for Calendar WEB and IOS
I would like to see an Agenda-View
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 ...
Calendar view of notes
similar to onetastic/onenote, or Notion's Calendar view or gallery view of database; see all content titles/thumbnails/previews within a Calendar display
Fix: Web Clipper
Web Clipper does not actually capture the correct page or page information. See screenshot, it is actually capturing a page on a different open window that hasn't ...
Under consideration
web-clipping
Create tasks from Events
I need to create tasks from a calendar feed, also create an event from a calendar, and automatically convert it to a task.
Under consideration
tasks
Alt-Drag to change the start time of dragged task and all future tasks simultaneously
Holding Alt (or any other key) when dragging a task on the calendar view should also drag all the tasks starting *after* it. This would offer a very easy way to slide ...
Development underway
calendar
Scrollable Footnotes
Sometimes footnotes becomes long and you end up scrolled down the whole page instead of the footnote popup/modal. Would be nice to have the actual page sticky and ...
Not planned
iframe
To add more embed option (google sheet, youtube etc.) without having to code to many integration we should be ables to add iframe code. Like that we could add Coda ...
Not planned
Past Due Tasks - Shortcut Needed in Tasks
Need for a shortcut in Tasks to quickly list any past due task. After you have accumulated a significant number of tasks, there will be some that are past due. Need ...
Not planned
Add a "Shared with me" section to better organize / find notes others share with you
Notes that have been shared with me seem to blend in with all of my other notes, and since these notes have a title I did not choose, finding them via search is not ...
Under consideration
sharing
Task filters
Right now there's no real way to filter tasks based off of any of the task attributes.
Not planned
Make use of Excalidraw for sketching, diagrams and flow charts
Excalidraw is a free to use sketching tool that can be integrated into the app. Slite does this very well as does Obsidian (via a plugin).
Sketches (using shapes, ...
Save task group/sort with a saved shortcut
Saving a shortcut to a task search is great, but the grouping/sorting settings are not saved with the shortcut. I like to have different setups depending on the type ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edit drawing/handwriting on iPad with Apple Pencil
After creating a drawing in the iPad version of the app, there is currently no way to edit the drawing. The user has to restart the entire drawing from scratch. The ...
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} ...
Integrate with hypothes.is
I was looking for a way to optimize the use case of reading pdf books and taking notes on amplenote.
I found a beautiful hack :) . There's a web service ...
Sync to filesystem or filesharing tool (say Dropbox) periodically
Here's my use case.
I have pdf of books that I edit often (annotations). I would love for the latest version to live inside amplenote because that's the source of ...
Not planned
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 ...
Titlebar Should Show Selected Tag/Jot/Note Title
Currently it just shows Amplenote - which is confusing if you have lots of tabs.
Zapier integration (New Calendar Event in Google/Outlook -> New Task in Amplenote)
Zapier integration (New Calendar Event in Google/Outlook -> New Task in Amplenote).
For example, I am subscribed to a Calendar Feed from my University, and I would ...
Under consideration
integrations
Ability to create/insert snippets anywhere within a note
Would love to have this feature, which is kinda similar to email snippets. Basically it's like Amplenote templates except you don't need to create a new note. You can ...
Under consideration
editor
Preview links to note headings in published notes
Rich footnotes on published notes display a preview of a note if it is public, but they don't preview sections of notes when using the hashtag # syntax to link to a ...
Planned
public-notes
Rich footnotes buttons should be at the top, especially on mobile
For larger footnotes or note previews, one has to scroll to the bottom of the rich footnote in order to edit it or close the preview window. On the web client, this ...
Under consideration
mobile
Backlinks filtering should work on unlinked references
Currently we can filter the list of backlinks by tag, but when browsing long lists of unlinked references, it's very useful to be able to narrow down the list of results.
Under consideration
note-linking
In Notes view add important notes to SHORTCUTS
I have few notes (max. 5) that I want to access very often and very quickly as they are my entry into a deeper structure. I would like to open amplenote and open ...
Under consideration
notes
Shuffle feature
It might be cool to have a “shuffle” feature so AN could help me decide which task to accomplish first on my to-do list.
Under consideration
tasks
Let me rotate images once I've added them to Supporting Details
Under consideration
attachments
Make todos more annoying to look at over time
It would be funny if the todos visually changed over time, becoming less unpleasant to look at the longer it sits. Might motivate me to cross items off my list faster!
Under consideration
ui
Header note for tags
it would be really nice to have a "header" or " main" note for each tag, to describe the tag itself, like a header, wich always stays on top of note list.
maybe ...
Not planned
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 ...
Allow renaming of attachment
My scanner generates a very generic name based on the date and time. I want the ability to rename a file without having to download and reupload
Under consideration
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 ...
Option to create future daily-jot pages
Oftentimes as I’m planning out scopes and sequences, I’ll want to be adding outlines for future lessons. Could we have an option of creating daily jots pages for the ...
Not planned
Dismiss single instance of recurring task without changing the others
I want to dismiss recurring task for particular dates, say I have a recurring task of "workout", but it conflicts with another event on a particular day in the ...