Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Add option to disable auto-archive for notes assigned with specific tags
There may be some use cases where auto-archiving is undesirable (e.g. using Amplenote as a repo of evergreen notes), and the current process to prevent notes from ...
Support renaming tag shortcuts/saved searches
Per the suggestion in https://www.amplenote.com/help/bespoke_kanban_board, I've created a saved that removes any tasks that I keep in my Kanban board but this makes ...
Toggle setting to *Hide future jots until the day happens*
I can understand use cases for either setting, so a toggle would be great to *turn off* showing future jots in the jots view.
I'd like to prepare notes like ...
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 ...
Allow more than 5 suggested notes when linking a note to a task or another note
When using the "[[..." to link another note, only a maximum of 5 suggested notes appears. As the number of notes increases, and some of the note content will be ...
Enable access to daily jots in calendar view
For users that use the daily jots function as a daily journal, it might be useful to be able to easily scroll through different days in a period of time for the ...
Display Actual Date/Time Rather Than Natural Language Date Reference
Suggestion: The note list should (IMO) have the real date and time easily visible without extra steps.
Reasoning: Right now, the dates and times are in a natural ...
Show tasks' start date / time / repetition in the Tasks view
When I am in the Tasks mode, I see all my tasks. However, in order to see the tasks' start date / repetition etc, I need to click on each individual task to see what ...
Give overdue tasks a higher Task Score
I'm new to Amplenote and noticed a weird feature of the Task Score: I had a task that was due yesterday and I forgot to do it. Today, I was surprised to find it ...
Add notes to existing calendar events in Gcal/Outlook
When reviewing your calendar events with Amplenote, being able to create a linked note to the event would be a huge benefit. A two way link from the Gcal event back ...
View Shortcuts/Global shortcut bar
Shortcuts at the moment are only local to the view you're in, e.g. a tag within Notes, a search within Tasks. But in my workflow I want to switch betwee 'today's ...
Aligning text to the top of the table's cell
I tend to put sentences in tables' cell, and the vertical alignment is always in the middle. I would love to have an option for vertical alignment as well (top, ...
On-time Reminder
The ability to set a reminder at the exact start time of a task does not exist. If my task is set to start at 9AM this morning, I cannot get a reminder at 9AM. The ...
Mark calendar events from Amplenote as private
My work calendar is shared with my coworkers, so the can plan meetings with me. Private calendar events are marked as private of course.
Can events created by ...
Add compact calendar view
With my screen resolution I'm only able to fit around 6 hours of calendar time into a single view.
I'd love the ability to adjust the compactness of the calendar ...
Quick entry of shortcuts on mobile
Would love to see a menu within the editor on mobile devices that allows for quick entry of shortcuts like {now} or [[=
Some of these characters are several taps ...
Searching Date using DD-MM-YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY
I would like to go back to dates quickly using the search function and quick open functionality.
It would be great if both formats would be implemented: ...
Amplecap - capture to today's jot
I often end up having to manually select today's jot by date when using Amplecap. It's usually near the top of the dropdown list but it's still an extra step. As jots ...
Add week number to calendar in week at a glance and month at a glance view
Useful to put the week number in the calendar when in week at a glance and month at a glance view for activities that take multiple weeks.
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 ...
"Clear formatting" keyboard shortcut
I hate when I've accidentally assigned a heading to something, used strikethrough (esp w/a task), or simply wanting to change my formatting, and don't have one simple ...
Parent tag to show only parent tag items, not also children tags items
With hierarchical tags, if you choose a parent tag (e.g. projects) you get all items (e.g. notes) having that specific tag and all other children tags ...
Add end of month as possible task due date
When creating tasks the due dates are pretty limitless, except the only limit I've thus far ran into--end of month. Whether a month ends on the 28th, 30th or 31st ...
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 ...
Military time as a time format
I would like to be able to enter 17:00 in the time box instead of 5 PM.
I would not make it mandatory but as a possible setting to be changed based on preferences.
avoid cliking on the tag when expanding it, it breaks workflow
Each time i need to expand another tag than the actual one, it equals to a click on it and the note list changes. It breaks the flow quite a bit.
Titlebar Should Show Selected Tag/Jot/Note Title
Currently it just shows Amplenote - which is confusing if you have lots of tabs.
Keep tag list expanded when switching views
Every time I switch between Notes, Jots, Tasks, and Calendar view, the tags list is reset to fully collapsed. Since I have set my tags up hierarchically (e.g. I have ...
Dedicated Tasks tab replacing Completed tab
There is currently a tab titled "Completed" in the Note page, which shows the completed tasks only. In the "Backlinks" we see the tasks AND the backlinks together, ...
Open Top Note by current sorting method from a Tag Shortcut in Notes Mode
Current behavior: If your default shortcut in Notes Mode is a tag rather than a note, then when you switch into Notes Mode it displays a "Tip of the day" in the ...
Make the header area sticky
In the desktop version, when scrolling a long page, it is a small pain to scroll up to do note level actions. It would be handy to keep the Title, tags and the ...
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 & ...
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" ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Add “today” to list of keywords that automatically bring up the start or hide menu in tasks
I brought up a question at the office hours of if it would be possible to use “today” as a natural language detection word same as “tomorrow”, “this Friday” etc. ...
Ability to join (concatenate) notes
Create a longer note or post from shorter fragment notes
I write different aspect and bring in various sources at different times. I'd like an easy way to build a ...
{date calculation} in Templates
Restrict performing the {date} calculation until the template is applied.
Use case:
I can make a "meeting minutes" template and include accurate timestamps. ...
Toggle auto-tagging of notes as daily-jots
I use Daily Jots as my main scratchpad. Typically I write notes, then go back and turn certain words/phrases into notes by highlighting them then tapping "[". It ...
Rename Favorites in Task View
When filtering and searching tasks, once a favorite is created, allow the text displayed in the left sidebar to be renamed.
The advantage this offers is faster ...
Set colors for Shortcuts
I would appreciate it if shortcuts could be color coded. I understand that the default gets a gold star, but it would help me locate shortcuts if they could have the ...
Search for notes created/modified on a specific day
Title. add a search operator that displays a view of all nodes (and optionally their context) that were modified on a specific day or range.
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.