Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
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.
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 ...
Create a link to any text or section
It would be nice to be able to create links to text I want to reference or refer to without creating new notes or tags if that isn't necessary. For example, I want to ...
Copy note URL
No matter if you use the Web app or Android, there should be the option to copy the note URL with one click (other than copy/pasting from the browser). Ideally, that ...
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 ...
Add support for editable transclusions
I would like to include part of one note in another, preferable editable in both places. Roam does block level and Obsidian does header level, but I would like some ...
Backlinks filtering should work on unlinked references
Currently we can filter the list of backlinks by tag, but when browsing long lists of unlinked references, it's very useful to be able to narrow down the list of results.
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 ...
Sorting backlinks
At this time it's unclear how backlinks are sorted. I think it would be helpful to allow backlinks to be sorted by their creation date or when they were last ...
Block (Sentence/Paragraph) Transclusion
I'm buying into the workflow of Amplenote. It just simply get things done.
The features I used the most is transclusion. I really love the transclusion via rich ...
Allow us to search, view, or search through all possibilities when using [[#
I have a really hard time linking to sections of my notes at times because it doesn't always find the correct header I am searching for. If I could just see all the ...
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 ...
Locking Rich Footnotes open
When I view a note transclusion via Rich Footnote, I want to be able to lock it open so I can edit the note I'm currently in while also viewing the Rich Footnote. ...
Search for headings globally using double round brackets "(("
Currently we can link to a heading in the "[[" linking menu by searching for a note and typing "#". It would be useful if we could search for existing headings when ...
Preview google docs in rich footnotes
Lucian edited May 4th 2024 to refer to only google docs
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I love the ability to embed google sheets, images, and videos in rich footnotes and now that those can ...
Show recently used notes in note lookup menus, when no text is entered
When I use "extract to a note", Amplenote shows a search pop-up window. But often I don't remember the name of the note I'd like to transfer text to. I suggest that ...
Open links in the default system browser
I use firefox but as I need to have a standalone app (so I can have a shortcut for it on my system) I installed WPA from chrome.
The problem is that now all the ...
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 ...
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. ...
Backlinks and additional references should include plural form and suffixes
This is a feature I think would increase the robustness of a notes in Amplenote. When I am reviewing the backlinks and the additional unlinked references sections of ...
Include "parent" bullet info in Backlink tab to provide context
In the backlink tab for each page, include the top level bullets leading to that reference for context. For example:
- Had appointment with Dr. X (this is what I ...
Double-bracket note linking: Improve note suggestion in the middle of a paragraph
Currently in the Amplenote web editor, linking to a note by opening a double bracket only suggests note titles containing text up to the end of the paragraph. ...