Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Support for LaTeX formatting
For math formulas and probably other stuff?
Paste Markdown
It would be really nice to be able to paste Markdown text into a note so that it remains its formatting.
For example if I paste "[Amplenote](https://amplenote.com)" ...
Embed YouTube videos inline
Now that we have inline video support, we should consider ways to allow YouTube videos to play directly inside the note body?
Add support for RTL language
Right to left writing)
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 aliases / automatic text substitution
It would be helpful to be able to prescribe aliases for phrases that I type regularly. For example, if I regularly write "AN" for "Amplenote", I should be able to set ...
Support for markdown headings up to H6
Currently only H1 to H3 headings are supported. This feature would enable further compatibility during markdown import.
Indent with tab
Indent when pressing tab or shit-tab should work whenever your cursor is at beginning or the end.
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 ...
URL Link Previews
Amplenote's 'rich footnotes' feature along with the ability to embed pictures, videos, and notes is an amazing feature. Just one thing is missing -- rich media link ...
need keyboard shortcut for strikethrough formatting
Currently the only way to apply striketrhough formatting is ~'s on each end of the line, which takes a lot of cursor movement/mouse movements if you use that format a ...
Please add drawing tool to windows.
The drawing tool available on iPad should be extended to windows. It is already available in one note and Evernote, so the technology already exists. Please include ...
Localised date and numberformat
Dates are formatted MONTH day, year
Numbers have a . [period] as a decimal separator.
It would be nice to switch them to local formats, for example "day.month.year" ...
Create Hyperlink Automatically on Paste
Adding the ability to add a link when you have text selected and you paste anything that starts with http:// or https://. This would simplify creating a link by a ...
Copy button on code block
Add a copy button on the code block to easily copy the entire code.
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 ...
Remove indentation limit for bullet point lists
Currently, there is a limit of five levels of indentation. There's no need for different icons per level. Just use the classic bullet point, remove the limitation, ...
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!
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.
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 ...
Searchable footnotes (in browser search)
I love that footnote text is searchable within Amplenote but when publishing or embedding the note, the text is no longer searchable within the browser search.
I ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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} ...
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 ...
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.
Add {today now} date calculation
I could simply use {today} {now}, but the extra brackets feel like an extra step when they could be just one, if implemented.
Use Case:
Timestamping notes & ...
Allow Word Wrapping Code Blocks
I am accustomed to code blocks being word wrapped so they are easy to read without the need to scroll.
Putting in line numbers will make it easy to identify ...
Extend emoji selector to note titles
Like https://amplenote.featureupvote.com/suggestions/17236/create-an-emoji-selector
Many times emojis can be used as visual tags, and they have the most effect on ...
Shortcut for arrows (-> or <-)
It would be great if AN has shortcuts for simple arrows
For example, "->" for → and "<-" for ←.
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 ...
Use Bullet point to zoom in
One of the things i like about Other apps is the ability to zoom in and focus on any one bullet point (including sub-bullets).
Create a full cylce of "no bullet point" > "bullet point" > "task" with ctrl + shift
Currently, you can add a bullet point to a line by using ctrl + shift. By using the same keys, it can be changed to a task. Pressing crtl + shift again just reverts ...
Display Rich Snippets when inserting a link
A representation of the rich snipped of the source (thumbnail, title, description etc.)would be nice, if a link is inserted
mouseover-zoom for rich footnote images
When an image is attached to a rich footnote it is possible to left-click once to open a "big thumbnail" as a kind of small overview which is fine. Many times one ...
Improve code and code block formatting
1. Code blocks in Rich Footnotes in dark mode have the same background color as the RF itself
2. Code blocks in published notes have the same background color as ...
Copied footnotes to display in alt-text
When copying and pasting text from Word (and I assume elsewhere), the footnote links to the bottom of the page. Would it be possible to have the text of this footnote ...
Convert footnote to note body when text converted to link
Let's say I have a bullet with part of it being a footnote:
* __a discussion__ I had today
{footnote: some text about what we discussed and an image of the sketch ...
Duplicate Content Block like NOTION
One feature I frequently miss is the ability to duplicate content blocks within a note, saving time and effort.
Integrating a simple content block duplication ...
Autocorrect and/or Custom Dictionaries
It would be great to add an autocorrect feature or custom autocorrect dictionaries (the latter of which would be a lighter lift). If I'm taking notes on a call for ...
Quickly convert image to rich footnote
I'd love the ability to quickly convert an image into a rich footnote.
I take handwritten notes on an e-ink tablet as that is more natural for me in a meeting ...
Offer a diff between versions, or diff view in notes
This is important if you are going to:
1. use amplenote to write anything longer than a few paragraphs
2. involve others in editing the same note
3. asking for ...
Design a way to select the best word from a list
I sometimes use the pattern of separating two or more words with the | operator when I haven't decided which word I want to use. It would be nice to have a way to ...