Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Locked notes can't be deleted
You have to unlock them first to delete the notes.
Under consideration
ui
Show backlinks on published notes
Having backlinks on published notes would be pretty cool.
Obviously, backlinks would only show for other public notes. But additionally, I think only backlinks ...
Under consideration
public-notes
Use of blocks like in Roam
Blocks in Roam are really usefull. It gives more flexible notes. It woul be great if this can be adopted in Amplenote.
Not planned
I want to be able to archive a Slack conversation and save it as an Amplenote
For example, /amplenote "pfsense meltdown #pfsense #server"
Not planned
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 ...
Daily Email Reminder
The option of a daily email reminder with tasks. Upcoming, Due Today, Overdue, etc.
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 ...
Search For Task option on the Task View Mode
Search by Task option in CTRL-O is great, but could't there also be task search window option when looking at the task view mode? It would be more obvious / ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alexa/Google home integrations
Allow voice assistants to create quick tasks to either a default note or the daily jot
Exporting to md only one tag
It takes the entire database a couple of hours to be exported to markdown (4200 notes). This is unpractical if I want to update and publish a 'blog' tag for example. ...
Add link to download all images in note
Add a link to the Note Options menu that allows downloading all of the images contained in the note, including those in Rich Footnotes.
Use case: creating a note ...
Under consideration
Allow local asset upload
In some cases (company laptops), it is not possible to upload files in notes because they are uploaded to AWS and the firewall prevents it. It would be nice to have ...
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 ...
Comments Section
Add a section in the details section of a task that allows a user to enter a comment with an automatic timestamp.
Use Case: I have a task that I'm waiting on an ...
Make pasting of rich text highlighted text work with Amplenote
User story:
On Mac OSX I copy from an RTF document text that is highlighted (yellow background) and paste it into TextEdit. I see the highlighting format is ...
Under consideration
editor
Setting Dates: Remember previous selection
When setting due or hide dates it would be great if one of the options to select from would be the previously selected date.
This is the same as how it works with ...
Under consideration
tasks
Group task by note additional information on the note name/location
When you group tasks by note, you will only see the name of the note. I'd like to be able to also see the tags (if any) associated to that note (or basically under ...
Under consideration
ui
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
List of all notes with word count, references, date updated, date created
As a Roam refugee, I'm missing this feature in Amplenote. Just a simple list that includes word count, references, date updated, date created and maybe some other ...
Under consideration
notes
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
Drag paragraphs
Would be very nice to be able to reaorganize the paragraphs order, or ideas: Shift + Ctrl + arrow up/down to move the paragraph in the text, Like in Notepad2.
Under consideration
editor
Task links in synced calendar events (description field)
I think that it would be useful if tasks synced in google calendar had a link in the "description" field in the calendar event so I could easily get to that task/note ...
Under consideration
calendar
Enable support for long press ⌘ to show keyboard shortcuts on iOS (iPad)
I find iPad with an external keyboard is great setup for writing. It would be great if the Amplenotes app supported this feature. Some of my other writing apps have ...
Under consideration
mobile
New Note - option
Create my own note taking templates as a selection from the New Note box
Not planned
Let me rotate images once I've added them to Supporting Details
Under consideration
attachments
Add the ability to choose a "Most Important" task that is worth triple points
And perhaps an email that goes out on Sundays to encourage me to pick my 3 most important goals for the week.
Not planned
Default search terms to show last used terms
When I tap the selector to perform a search on mobile, it would be helpful to see a list of my most recent search terms, for the sake of convenience.
Under consideration
searching
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
Context menus
What it says on the tin. The PWA not having context menus of some kind or another makes operating the app clunkier than it needs to be.
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 ...
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 ...
Group tasks by tag in Tasks view
Currently, I can group tasks by Note or Note Creator. I would like ot have the ability to group tasks by tag so that I can see tags that belong to notes sharing the ...
Not planned
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
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 ...
Ability to create a direct hyperlink to an Email
Microsoft ToDo and Spark have the ability to create unique hyperlinks to Emails. This is very useful for follow up Emails, or getting back to the original Email in ...
Not planned
Allow selection of default note for adding Quick Todos from mobile
When adding a Quick Todo, the last used note pops up as the default. If you happen to have more than one "inbox" note, such as one for work and one for personal, you ...
Hide subtasks on the calendar task pane.
The calendar task pane is low on space. It would make sense if there was an option to hide child tasks and only show top parent tasks. It would work nicely on the ...
Not planned
Send Reminder Emails
Sometimes you work on a device without AN installed but still have access to emails.
Not planned
Ability to Quickly Add a list of task and parse dates from the list
For example:
Send Reminder To Student if No Documents 3/27/2023
Document Deadline (six w/ prior to start) 4/3/2023
Documents To Admin and inform Donna ...
Add Web Share Target to PWA
Hi, loving the app and I do enjoy using Amplecap to capture content from the web. I use Amplenote on a Chromebook and I would like to be able to quickly capture ...
Not planned
Default view mode when app is opened (iOS)
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 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
Task tags
Currently, only notes can have tasks. As someone that combines productivity organisation with journaling and making memo's I love how tasks are aggregated from ...
Not planned
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 ...
Filter backlinks based on inline-tags (note-reference).
Basically the title.
An example use-case:
I capture new ideas in my daily-jots and link it to my [[ideas]] note. This is great as it gathers all ideas in the ...
Planned