Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
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 ...
Add the iOS SHARE button to the NOTE options (box with up arrow)
I’d love to share a note to a friend. Once I click / touch the share button, the normal iOS options show up. I select share via email or message.
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 ...
Keep tags selected when switching view
When I switch view (from jots to tasks, for instance), I'd like selected tag/s to keep selected, as they represent the context I'm working on. This behavior should be ...
Under consideration
notes
Task achievements
Some type of system to track number of tasks for the day and get an achievement for each task or just for completing all tasks for the day.
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 ...
{weather} extension
Typing {now} / {today} / {yesterday} etc are one of my favourite features of Amplenote. I would like to have the ability to write today's weather in my note, which is ...
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 ...
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
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
Importing an Amplenote backup should apply metadata
Importing Markdown exports created by Amplenote should remove the YAML preamble and apply the tags and the rest of the metadata.
Planned
importing
Require implicit command to include archived notes in results when filtering by tag
When a note is archived it should not appear in any search unless implicitly told to do so. This is especially true when filtering by tags. Currently there is no ...
Under consideration
searching
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
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
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
Date & time stamp
a keyboard shortcut for a date and or date and time stamp would be great. I keep a daily journal and it would be nice to say, "I spoke to Joe about XYZ". Add a date & ...
Not planned
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
Tag individual tasks in daily jots with standard tags to better map to calendar spaces
I am trying to set up calendar spaces, one for work, and one for life, where I can drag a task into my calendar and have it create an event to block that time off so ...
Not planned
Automatically add a backlink when creating a note from a calendar event
Thanks for providing the ability to link your calendar and an action to create a note from the calendar event. I'm surprised there isn't a backlink automatically ...
Recognize existing note by just typing, Mynotename. No need to always use [[
It's inconvenient to always type [[ because a) unnecessary effort and b) you might not always know that you already have that note and thus fail to reference it. ...
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
Notes Chat AI
Ability to ask questions related to notes that an AI similar to ChatGPT can answer, with a link to the notes as well.
Not planned
Agenda view for calendars
Ample note has one day, three days, a week, and a month. It does not have a simple list/agenda view.
1. The Google calendar agenda view for Android and iPhone is ...
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
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
Implement "ready only option by default" on mobile apps to prevent accidental edits
Having this option would prevent from "futzing" with the notes when using the mobile app for those of us that are just reading and don't really want to make any ...
Not planned
do not show daily jots in notes pane
Maybe this can be implemented like this:
A new option could be added to the account settings for this
Not planned
Not allowing multiple notes with identical names
Amplenote allows notes with the exact same name. I can't see why would this be useful and I do see issues allowing this.
Not planned
Tasks item design: option to strip away grey background
It will be great to have an option to “turn off” the grey box/background for Task items. Keeping the “color” line indicator as element of most importance would be ...
Not planned
Mobile: Add "Jot" to QuickEdit on bottom
Mobile Jots is still too clunky and slow. What do I mean?
Let's say I got a random idea in my head, and I am holding my smartphone (Android, by the way). I whip it ...
Not planned
Easy Date Completion
I think Workflowy does this really well, but basically if I start typing "aug 5", it would be really helpful if it could auto complete the date.
I like the ...
Not planned
Better way to create and manage tags
It is really strange that Amplenote, which relies so heavily on tags, has such poor tag management. I would expect to be able to add and remove tags by clicking on ...
Not planned
Amplecap access "[[" for notes
I often find when I am saving something to Amplecap, that I would like to access some tags I have with the "[[" so that I can find the task later in my task or ...