Our customers made these suggestions for improving Amplenote. Suggestions for improving Amplenote.
Search Should Highlight Searched Text
When searching, the matching text should be highlighted in notes that are returned.
24 hour selection
It would be nice to have in settings slider/check if you want 12/24 hour. And showing Monday as week start.
Lucian's edit: configurable week start votes can go at ...
Add a visible date/time to a todo, especially in the mobile app.
Now you have to open the todo to have it shown ...?
In TickTick you see the time until the actual todo, like 14h, 1d, etc And best in color, like in red when late etc.
Visual indicator that a task is a repeating task
I create many repeating tasks. It would be useful to have a visual indicator that a task is a repeating task, so a user doesn't have to open the task details to ...
Grid or gallery view
Have a grid or gallery view ('cards' I've seen it called as well) for all notes, which shows either the top most photo in a note or perhaps a chosen cover image (see ...
Add distraction-free mode (Zen mode, focus mode)
Please (re)consider my suggestion, I've seen two similar ones rejected, and I believe that the assumptions where different, because you suggested Jots as a better ...
Functionality to reorder tag shortcuts
For example if I'm in task view and I want to reorder my tag favorites, right now I have to unfavorite them and then favorite them in the right order. I would like to ...
Right-click functionality
Would live to see right-click functionality so that I can quickly action notes or tasks via a right-click contextual menu.
An example use case here is deleting ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Remove the quote of the day
I've only been using Amplenote for a few days so far, but it seems like when I start a new note, there is some random quote of the day pre-filled in the note body. As ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Amount of space a Note summary takes up
The notes summary takes up 9 lines on the screen so you only see 3 or 4 notes. As a result you are doing a lot of scrolling up and down.
If you had 1 line for the ...
Make it easier to create nested tags
Let's say you already have a nested tag called "business/marketing", but you want to create a third layer in the hierarchy called "analytics", i.e. ...
Titlebar Should Show Selected Tag/Jot/Note Title
Currently it just shows Amplenote - which is confusing if you have lots of tabs.
Make todos more annoying to look at over time
It would be funny if the todos visually changed over time, becoming less unpleasant to look at the longer it sits. Might motivate me to cross items off my list faster!
Calendar view of notes
similar to onetastic/onenote, or Notion's Calendar view or gallery view of database; see all content titles/thumbnails/previews within a Calendar display
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 ...
Locked notes can't be deleted
You have to unlock them first to delete the notes.
Allow for all possible combinations when displaying side panes and main note.
Specifically, when I share a screen remotely with others, I would like to see my overview with favorites, etc. but not my last opened notes incl. the preview of my ...
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 ...
Expand Backlinks View in note
As we are using inline tags. It would be nice to adjust the size of the backlinks window vs the main body, Or even consider enabling us to show only backlinks with ...
Make the editor for Vault notes visually distinct to minimize accidental usage of non-encrypted note
The current shield icon in the top right of the editor is easy to overlook, there could be some more obvious signal to the user that the note they are typing in is ...
Allow shortcuts to be grouped with hierarchies
I would like to add shortcuts of various notes, and would like them to be grouped by the tags. That way I can collapse shortcuts based on the top level tags and get ...
Show the note title that a task belongs to in the calendar view > Unscheduled tasks box
Amplenote Calendar mode shows the unscheduled tasks on the right side of the screen when we are in a task domain with tasks that does not have a start date.
It is ...
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 ...
A faster way to toggle between light/dark mode (UI)
Probably just a me thing (hope not) but I would like a faster way of switching between these two modes, like a button always present in the UI instead of it being ...
Collapse 'Shortcuts' and 'Tags' lists in the sidebar
Implement click on 'Shortcuts' and 'Tags' lists headings in the sidebar to hide/reveal (collapse) the content lists of both shortcuts and tags.
Long lists of ...
Slideshow mode for images inside a note
How it would work:
You (double)tap/click on an image inside a note a slide show mode would turn on where all images of the actual note could be browsed in a (semi) ...
Don't automatically close the "Quick to-do" input
When using the "Quick to-do" input in the Calendar tab, after entering a to-do don't close the input. This would allow a user to quickly enter subsequent tasks ...
Don't reset nav pane when switching views
My workflow:
I like to use Jots Mode (JM) w/the primary nav pane collapsed (call this V1), but I like to use Notes Mode (NM) w/the primary nav pane collapsed & the ...