Suggestions for improving Amplenote

Ability to pin notes in the notes list

There should be an ability to pin notes to the top of a notes list (not as shortcuts to the sidebar). This avoids visual clogging on the sidebar, and lets you can ...
Suggested by: John Smith (19 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium notes

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 ...
Suggested by: Farris (11 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 5
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Add a way to search for attached PDF files and/or notes with PDF files.

I like to add PDFs to notes but then finding them becomes a chore. It would be great to have a way to query for attachments and notes with attachments (not the same ...
Suggested by: luxetumbra (03 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium searching

Add support for RTL language

Right to left writing)
Suggested by: mako (08 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 14
Under consideration editor effort-medium

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)" ...
Suggested by: Diederik Hoogenboom (08 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 17 May Comments: 8
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Ability to automatically apply Vault encryption to certain notes

Similar to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/password-protect-your-notes-e5ffd8fd-e811-441a-aa02-e13f0f445933 Currently, you can only vault-protect each ...
Suggested by: Kendall (07 Apr, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 3
Under consideration effort-medium security

Preview google docs in rich footnotes

Lucian edited May 4th 2024 to refer to only google docs --- I love the ability to embed google sheets, images, and videos in rich footnotes and now that those can ...
Suggested by: Derek Thurber (02 May, '24) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 1

Nested tasks should inherit their parent item/note affiliation

Having recently migrated from Roam, I was trying to find a way to compile notes and tasks from multiple project on daily jots, but have been frustrated that tasks are ...
Suggested by: Fractal0011 (09 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 4

Keep formatting from emails

When I forward an email to amplenote please keep the formatting.
Suggested by: Simon (09 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 1

Mirror Bullet items in the same way we can mirror tasks

The task mirroring function has been a really great feature, I'd like to be able to see that in the bulleted items as well. I use start dates in bullets to make them ...
Suggested by: Joe Baxter (25 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 17 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

Note reference within Rich Footnotes

Hi, I usually write my thoughts related to some workflows in footnotes and want to use note references within the text Description area of footnotes. This helps me ...
Suggested by: Pratik (23 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 16 May Comments: 0

Undoing recurring tasks should restore task to note like regular tasks

Currently, if you undo or uncheck a recurring task it won't restore to the note and instead it will just create the next scheduled task and the task you undo ...
Suggested by: Polymathical (24 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

Support for LaTeX formatting

For math formulas and probably other stuff?
Suggested by: Lucian (28 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 10 May Comments: 12
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Ctrl + drag-and-drop to reschedule only the current instance of a recurring task

Would be cool to have an option for changing the start date (or maybe even the duration?) of a single occurrence of a repeating task. Holding Ctrl while dragging ...
Suggested by: Lucian (14 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 10
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Attach any file type (size can be limited)

Amplenote only support few file types but if it support any file type that it really helps keep the note together. There have been cases where I need to save license ...
Suggested by: MK (15 Jun, '24) Upvoted: 08 May Comments: 0
Under consideration attachments effort-medium

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
Suggested by: Shaheed Faza (07 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 08 May Comments: 4
Under consideration attachments effort-medium

Allow shortcuts to be reorganized

Please allow the shortcuts of both the notes and tasks to be reorganized in different orders by dragging and dropping on the sidebar. In order to have a task manager ...
Suggested by: Joe (02 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 08 May Comments: 20
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

Email-to-note should include attachments

Support for importing email attachments when using email-to-note
Suggested by: Hugh (13 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 08 May Comments: 16

Long note titles should wrap in order to fit on the screen

When using a Zettelkasten or similar note-taking method that focuses on atomic notes (i.e. one note should contain one piece of information), the note title ...
Suggested by: Sami (02 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Add calDAV capability to integrate with calendars

Expand calendar integration beyond google and microsoft.
Suggested by: NIK (15 May, '21) Upvoted: 03 May Comments: 11
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

change default header color for all three levels

It's very confusing for me to recognize the header level just by the text size and the marked button on the ribbon. I would love to know if I can change the headers ...
Suggested by: GMim (07 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Freeze Headings in Tables

It would be great to be able to freeze headings in tables, so the heading would remain visible when scrolling down the table. Similar to the Freeze Top Row and ...
Suggested by: Pat Nims (03 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 23 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tables

Support overall note content font size adjustement (or sync with iOS/Android global setting)

As simple as it sounds. The default text size can be a tad small at times, so it would be useful to have an option to adjust it in Settings.
Suggested by: Aurelius (28 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 12 Apr Comments: 25

Allow editing text and tasks that are backlinked from the Backlinks tab

Currently, when a task is backlinked, it is not clickable/editable. It would be good if one could both complete and edit a task as part of a Note's backlink.
Suggested by: Brian Cohen (28 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 11 Apr Comments: 14

An option to sound Alarm for reminders.

It would be nice to have an alarm sound on me if there's something that needed to be done, especially when notifications just won't cut it. This is true ...
Suggested by: Elijah Eumague (11 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 06 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

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, ...
Suggested by: Toni (23 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tables

Improve how all day tasks are handled (ie not 1440 minutes)

Currently, the way Amplenote considers a task as an all-day task is when a task begins at 00:00 and duration is set to 1440 minutes. However, this way of defining ...
Suggested by: Jack Elliott (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 4
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Consolidated Calendar View of All Domains

It would be nice to have toggles for the domains in the Calendar just like calendar toggles in Google Calendar. It's kinda hard to schedule tasks referencing ...
Suggested by: G (13 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Add 'OR' to Filter TASKS by Note Reference

At present, on the AmpleNote Tasks page (https://www.amplenote.com/notes/tasks), there exists a filtering mechanism that allows for filtering of tasks by Note ...
Suggested by: M L (01 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium searching

Zapier integration

Zapier integration to create a task (action) and do something when a task is created or completed (triggers)
Suggested by: Jake (25 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 13

Use system fonts

It would help immensely for the app to feel more at home on various devices, to use the standard system font on any given device. It feels out of place to use the ...
Suggested by: Michael K (09 Feb, '22) Upvoted: 06 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Search in language other than English

This is a huge problem for non-native English users or people who take notes in multiple languages. Right now, searching is not fully functioned in languages other ...
Suggested by: zt (07 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 04 Mar Comments: 9

Allow resizable/adjustable left hand columns width in Notes View

Some note titles are long or begin with similar words. It would be appreciated if I could make the center list column wider (or wrap text) dynamically so I can see ...
Suggested by: Judi (21 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 26 Feb Comments: 4
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Improved date/time selection

Right now setting the date is an irritating experience if you don't use "typical" (predefined) event dates: early morning, afternoon etc. Home Assistant for ...
Suggested by: Tomasz (05 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 25 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tasks

Subscribe to ics

Hi As I don't use google calendar but infomaniak calendar, it will be nice to be able to subscribe to ics calendar. Thanks !
Suggested by: Hydro (13 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 23 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Bullet Threading

This feature would visually connect bullets with lines to show the relationships between parent and child bullets, making it easier to follow the structure of nested ...
Suggested by: Rafael (08 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 03 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium ui

Drag-and-drop functionality for ordering tags in the left sidebar

Currently, Amplenote users cannot rearrange tags in the left sidebar using drag-and-drop. Implementing this feature would greatly improve usability and make tag ...
Suggested by: Vlad (30 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 30 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

Customize shortcuts

In some keyboard locales, the app shortcuts override other useful combinations (e.g.:"[" seems to be used to change views, meaning I can't use it to create a task or ...
Suggested by: Fritz (11 May, '20) Upvoted: 26 Jan Comments: 9
Under consideration effort-medium hotkeys

RSS feed for amplenote blog

Amplenote blog (https://www.amplenote.com/blog) is great to keep with updates, but it doesn't support RSS feeds, so it's hard to subscribe to it.
Suggested by: Rudi P (24 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 26 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration community effort-medium

Rule based tags

It would be great to have the ability to create rules which auto tag notes. E.g: based on the title
Suggested by: Andras (27 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 26 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium tagging

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 ...
Suggested by: Brittany (13 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 26 Jan Comments: 2

Show a biometric authentication dialog for Android app

Include a biometric login option to secure access to Amplenote on the Android app
Suggested by: DanF (26 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 21 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration effort-medium mobile

Mobile widget: shortcut to open note

at android: I need widjet 1*1 (or just ordinary shortcut) to certain note. I think it's very helpfull
Suggested by: Oleh (17 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 15 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium mobile

Allow search bar for tasks in calendar view

In calendar view, on the right sidebar, include search bar for tasks. Right now, it has "sort by task score" and "tag filters" only.
Suggested by: J (26 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 2

Support for markdown headings up to H6

Currently only H1 to H3 headings are supported. This feature would enable further compatibility during markdown import.
Suggested by: 0cre (02 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 5
Under consideration editor effort-medium

Expanded Drawing canvas on iPad

At the risk of sounding ungrateful - because the drawing canvas is a game changer for my workflows (I like to hand write meeting notes, put them into a note as an ...
Suggested by: C L (10 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 02 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration effort-medium mobile

Minimize Windows desktop app to system tray

Allow the Windows desktop app to be minimized to the system tray (the area by the clock) so that the application can remain open and easily accessible without taking ...
Suggested by: Jeff (18 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 26 Dec, '25 Comments: 2

More than 3 task domains

I'm unsure why there is a limit of three task domains, maybe there is a good idea behind that decision, but I would personally like one or two more.
Suggested by: Alexander (06 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 24 Dec, '25 Comments: 4
Under consideration calendar effort-medium

Ability to lock / unlock app with password or Face ID

Because of privacy concerns, I would really like the ability to lock the app using a password or Face ID. I know that the iPhones already have the phone lock, but ...
Suggested by: Mike S (20 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 17 Dec, '25 Comments: 9

Allow custom reminders, or reminders longer than 1 day

I would like to be able to set reminders for a week in advance or possibly longer, especially for really important tasks.
Suggested by: Noah (10 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 15 Dec, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration effort-medium tasks