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Hiya, thanks for sharing your new user thoughts, we love to hear what people's impressions are when they're new to the product! With regards to your feedback,

> Vote-for-features is a serious red flag.

I think if you stick around for awhile you'll discover that we use the vote-for-features as a proxy to gauge what users want, not as a divine mandate. As evidence, I present our major feature releases of the past year. Nobody asked for the Idea Execution Funnel. Nobody voted for a calendar. Feature voting provides us useful signal to know what users want, and we season that to taste with our own vision for a tool that blends "simple," "flexible," and "powerful for achieving short- and long-term goals."

> The design wreaks of cross-platform...which, coming from a Mac user, means a Microsoft vibe, which rubs the wrong way. It's neat and tidy, but the colors, fonts, spacings...all UI decisions seem left-brain and unaesthetic

We are wrapping up our design for themes, which should go live within the next month or two and might serve to address some of the shortcomings you perceive. Maybe it is us being "left brained," but our first priority has been trying to create a product that creates unique functional value for the user; from there, it's not difficult for us to style such a product to accord with the tastes of our creative users like yourself.

Had a great time chatting w/ you about this on Twitter! In addition to the next update (tomorrow-ish) removing tasks in locked notes from Tasks/Calendar View, we're also adding a handful more features to expedite the creation of notes from templates. Check out the updated documentation and let me know what you think once these improvements go live? :)

https://www.amplenote.com/help/using\_note\_templates

When you connect a note or a tag to a Task Domain, you have the option of setting a Default Reminder for that Domain. Tasks created by clicking on the calendar pane in that particular Domain (that is, tasks that receive a start date upon creation) will also receive a reminder, as configured in the Domain settings.

Let me know if this helps!

If you are struggling to see the utility of Jots, it is likely a sign that your work flow doesn't need them! For what it's worth, the Jots mode was designed as the Amplenote counterpart to the "Daily Notes" feature that already existed in other popular apps - it is meant to hold your date-sensitive backlinks, journaling, or quick brainstormed ideas, only it was integrated with things that makes sense in Amplenote, which are tag hierarchies (to allow for brainstorming on multiple topics/tags) and task resurfacing (to ensure that none of your actionable items get lost in the ever-increasing stack of daily jots). Some of the ideas and motivations behind Jots are explained in the manifesto article about the Idea Execution Funnel.

To address your first point, in the light of my previously stated plea, one good destination for your "default", quick-reminder-type items could be in your `#daily-jots`. On mobile, you can use the quick-add area for tasks at the bottom of the home screen to add a task and pick its destination, and on web you can `Ctrl-O` to `jots` and start typing your task item by pressing `[]`. That said, I still think the default, untagged destination for tasks could trigger other people's interests as well, so please do add it to our feature leadeboard to properly expose your idea to the devs!

To address your point about automatic sharing, tag-based collaboration is one of the solutions that we're considering for this issue! I'm personally very excited to see how this idea will evolve, but it will certainly make collaboration in Amplenote be very seamless and handy.

For your final note, showing tasks in context is a likely candidate for the Calendar release, but here is a related suggestion that you can upvote in the meantime!

I've just created this demo IFTT integration: https://ifttt.com/applets/XV6vSUwT-if-you-say-dictate-to-amplenote-then-add-a-task-to-today-s-daily-jot.

I haven't managed to test it yet, but do let me know if you have any feedback.

This applet (provided you create an account with IFTT) uses Google Assistant to trigger a voice command that will convert your speech to text and send it to Amplenote as a task.

I haven't looked into a web solution yet.

All details are here:

https://obsidian.md/publish

It's basically a static site generator that uses obsidian (or in our case ammplenote) as an enditor.

The output is a 'blog' or wiki that you don't need to update with the (often dificult) methods of CMSs.

It's quite an idea.

Amplenote creates a Jot for the current day if you start editing the current day's empty Jot (the one that is always at the top in Jots mode). The tag that is applied to that Jot will always be the one that is selected in the sidebar when you start editing the note.

By default, the selected tag in the sidebar is daily-jots (we call that a "Default" Tag Shortcut). Here's what it looks like when daily-jots is a Tag Shortcut. If it were a Default Tag Shortcut, the star symbol next to the tag name would be yellow.

You can click on the star next to a Tag Shortcut to make that Shortcut the "default" one. Default Shortcuts are automatically selected when you switch to Jots mode, which means your Jots will be automatically tagged accordingly.

More on Tag Shortcuts.

That's a good suggestion! Will forward this to our design team.

As far as adding tags to newly created notes, you can do that by prefixing the title of the note with the tag's name and a slash sign. Using this mechanism, it's possible to add an arbitrary number of tags to a note by using commas to separate them. Relevant help page.

To complement u/Locatino_Paul's answer: you can bring over a note or a section from a note by typing [[= followed by the name of the note (relevant help page). This mechanism is equivalent to copying and pasting the contents manually, however, so updates in the source note will not reflect in the destination note.

Apologies for my delayed response!

Keeping completed to-dos inline is currently one of the most popular feature requests, so we're actively figuring it out behind the scenes.

As far as creating tasks that don't appear in Tasks Mode, here are a few possible suggestions:

1. Create the checklists you don't want to show up under a certain tag, for exmample #ignored. Then, when in Tasks Mode, simply select the tags (Shift-Click) that you want to see to-dos from. In fact, that's the main purpose of tag filtering! It is unrealistic that you want to see every single task you create across all of your notes. So, as long as you don't select your "ignored" tag, those to-dos are not going to show up. Note that you can also create a Tag Shortcut to quickly jump to your most frequent tag selections.
2. Use Inline Tags to individually tag to-dos that you don't want to see in Tasks Mode. Soon enough, it will be possible tag multiple tasks at once by tagging their parent tag.
3. Lock the notes whose tasks you don't want to see in Tasks Mode. This has the disadvantage of making the notes read-only until you unlock them.

Let me know if this helps your use case.

Quick update here: Inline Taggging is now live! Other potentially interested people from this thread: u/craha and u/LibrarianSufficient3.

Quick update here: Inline Tags are now live. Tagging other potentially interested people from this thread u/mangelito, u/czph_ and u/Komatik.

I'm browsing the backlog of mentions of "GTD" and "inline tags" among other things, so I think this might be of interest: Inline Tags are now live.

Great question, Paul! The way to prevent adding the currently selected tag to new notes is to add a tilda ~ sign after your double brackets [[. I've centralized the various ways in which auto-tagging works in Amplenote in this help section, but at your suggestion I'll brainstorm some ways to make this info easier to find.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hey there! Sorry for my late reply. The most recent update we've added was Inline Tags! Check out the help page about this. TLDR is that inside your tasks you create a link to another note using the double-bracket [[ linking syntax. This note can act like an inline tag and you can then browse all of the tasks with a particular combination of tags (i.e. particular combination of links to notes) in Tasks and Calendar mode.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Tagging u/Locatino_Paul and u/benf101.

As a semi-update to this thread: here are the instructionsfor setting up an Apple Calendar sync using Google as intermediary. Hope this helps somewhat!

Hey there u/cjrecordvt!

I'm afraid we still don't have an ETA for this feature. It's not currently among our top-of-mind features to implement.

Would you please share your favorite things about the ideal "native share" functionality? Given the various third-party automation tools that are available as well as the beta Amplenote API, I could (at least) write up a decent proposal for how such a functionality would look like.

Thanks!

Update: sending multiple images to Amplenote is now supported. Make sure to download the latest Sharing Shortcuts from here.

> notes are not "unique" in the sense that multiple notes with the exact same name can be created and still be "different" objects. Am I correct?

That's right!

> What's the logic of having multiple "thoughts" with the exact same name ??

Great question! This is mostly a byproduct of how we envisioned Daily Jots. As you might have noticed, you can create a Jot for any node in your tag hierarchy (or more appropriately - Amplenote can create it for you automatically).

Jots are meant to be a landing pad for your ideas and tasks, and just like with other networked-note apps, daily notes are very fit for "content that categorizes itself": you can drop a block of text in a daily note and as long as you reference the appropriate notes, everything gets categorized automatically without having to think about (tags and) hierarchy.

In addition to this use case for daily notes, in Amplenote you can have a separate thread of daily notes for each of your tags/projects. In reality, most users only use a very small number of tagged Jots; for example, I added journal, work/journal and fitness to my Tag Shortcuts, so I can quickly start jotting on any of these projects.

This comes with the side-effect of having multiple Jots with the same title if you use daily notes in two or more life areas. Behind the scenes, we've been toying around with how to reduce the resulting confusion. In the future, we will try to make it unambiguous which Daily Jot you are targeting when linking to a note, moving a task, viewing your Domain notes and so on.

> if I want to write today a note that references a "daily note page" in the future, how do I do that?

Here is a section in our help page about Jots, describing how to create future Jots. Let me know if this helps.

Hey there u/n9n9n9n9n!

Your point inspired me to update the help page on search queries with new info. That is - you can search for group: untagged,taskLists to see a list of all of your notes that are untagged and have tasks inside them.

Note that you can also click on the Tasks button on the sidebar twice to see tasks from all of your notes, including untagged ones.

You can actually sign up and sneak into freemium mode https://www.amplenote.com/freemium_beta_plan

Compare note taking apps with free versions https://www.noteapps.info/features?feature=169

I believe Remnote is one recommended for students/study

Hey there Ben!

Use the Domain options (which appear when you click the sync indicator) to disable showing *all* scheduled tasks. Disabling this option will only display tasks from notes that you explicitly add to your Task Domain.

Hello u/FunkyParticles. Have a look at the Amplenote Pricing Page. If you create an account using the web app, Amplenote will charge you with the US-based pricing.

Keep in mind that for the mobile stores, we are actually relying on the pricing schemes that Google/Apple are providing, which means that often times there are additional taxes introduced automatically on top of the price in non-US countries. For what it's worth, we've now updated the scheme for the iOS store to conform with a more recent exchange rate, which starting November 5th will have the effect of lowering the monthly price of Basic in the UK ever so slightly.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Hey there u/Hareel78!

Thanks for reporting this! Forwarding this to the team. When this issue gets fixed, you should be able to remove the daily-jots tag from the list of Tag Shortcuts. However, this tag will still appear in the list of tags, because Amplenote treats it as the default container for Daily Jots.

In the meantime, to make sure that it doesn't get in the way, you can make your inbox tag the Default Tag Shortcut.

I've just compiled a more compact version of the Keyboard Shortcut page. Check it out here.

Tagging u/Common_Lake_2011 too.

Hope this helps!

And windows? And iOS? In a printable format? The only lists I found are just not easily converted to something I could print to have as a reference on my desk.

The full list is on the AN help page here: https://www.amplenote.com/help/keyboard_shortcuts_and_markdown_syntax_examples

I had thought about extracting the info to something more compact but haven’t gotten around to it.

The way I separate projects is somewhat different than this, but I envision a few strategies that could let you get a smooth flow for switching between projects.

> I frequently have projects with notes and tasks

That’s what tag hierarchies are great for. Example `todo/project-a` or `todo/project-a/milestone-1` if you want to get detailed. The help page linked above does a reasonably good job of illustrating the use of tag hierarchies to quickly swap between projects. Let me know if you have ideas on how to improve it? We also posted on Twitter today a new Shutorial on setting up Task Domains, which dovetails nicely with the use of tags to organize projects.

> as well as items where I’m waiting for others

When you’re waiting for others, hide the task. We offer lots of ways to do it. When they respond to you, you can unhide to mark it complete, or just wait until it pops out for you to take action and mark it complete then (my usual preference—always nice to have a task come out of hiding and send it straight to being a completed task that proves how much got done today :)).

> Multiple tasks in various phases over time, all tied to a project and set of notes

I think this is mostly a summary of the points previously made? If “phases” means something that I didn’t already capture, holla @ ya boy

On mobile, you’re using the app yes? Usually the easiest way to quickly add/schedule a task is using the mobile quick bar https://www.amplenote.com/help/tasks_and_todos_create_list#How_do_create_a_todo_list?

It allows you to pick a time that the task takes place along w the note. If the note destination is in a task domain then it would be on your calendar, but regardless you should get reminded about it if you have notifications enabled

It's not just you. The share sheet Shortcuts mostly work though, with limitations like photos not attaching, tweet IDs as note titles… but even with the limitations it's a good start.

https://www.amplenote.com/help/ios_share_sheet_automations_mail_to_note_options

Hey u/M1ckey,

The number displayed underneath the search bar (when no filter is active) is the current number of notes that are not archived. That number is going down because of the auto-archive feature.

You can see how many archived notes you have by typing group: archived in the search bar.

Hey there--templates were a common theme of emails I was receiving, so I wrote a help page about them a couple weeks ago: https://www.amplenote.com/help/using_note_templates_via_duplication

Maybe that approach serves your needs w/ less steps?

Just to double-check, and also based on your e-mail to support, are you copying the HTML code generated by Amplenote into the body of the Wordpress post, after switching to the HTML view inside Wordpress (as per these instructions)?

Hello again! I take that back!

TIL: you can set up custom weekly recurrence patterns, including weekday recurrence. I've added a section on the help page about this: https://www.amplenote.com/help/tasks\_and\_todos\_recurring\_due\_dates#\_\_\_Advanced\_weekly\_recurrence

Thanks to u/pixel8ed and u/lukkes. Perhaps Amplenote should consider putting that on its list of shortcuts or perhaps even its list of favorite shortcuts.

Hey there u/cjercordvt!

We've recently changed occurences of "due date" to mention instead "start date", in order to fit better semantically with the recently released Calendar mode, which is why some help pages are behind right now and still mentioning the "due" terminology. Apologies for that!

We only offer "start dates" as a property for tasks, but that start date can be "soft" or "hard", depending on how you view your tasks.

If you're in Tasks mode, you are likely looking at an auto-sorted list of tasks and you're interested in the ones that have accumulated the most score. Tasks that start on the current day receive a boost of 10 task score points, but sometimes that might not be enough to bring them to the top of the list.

If you're in Calendar mode, switching to the day view will display all tasks that start today, "bypassing" the task score sorting (assuming you have set up Task Domains). Another option that achieves the same thing is to sort by "Start date" in Tasks mode.

Let me know if the above addresses your use case!

Hey u/tylertul!

Check out this section from the help page on mail-to-note. To summarize, you can obtain your Amplenote account's email address (by extracting it from whichever one of your note's email addresses). Any email you forward to that address will be converted into a new note titled after the email's subject.

Hey u/tylertul!

For any task, you can only add footnotes while editing it from the containing note.

An alternative is to add tasks via the mail-to-note functionality, which supports adding the contents of an e-mail as a footnote for a to-do in one of your notes. For both Android and iOS, here is a useful page explaining how to set up the mechanism for sharing content from mobile using mail-to-note. Let me know if you have any questions about that as I'm still refining the language on the guide.

Both Jots and Tasks mode support choosing your own "tag shortcuts" that you can use to quickly access jots and tasks across your tag hierarchy. The daily-jot tag is the default tag shortcut for Jots mode, but you can change that using the star-shaped button next to the shortcut's name.

You can read more about setting shortcuts and default shortcuts on this help page, but let me know if you have any other questions!

Hey there u/skrama!

We'll make sure to have some help pages on the new Calendar view once we get to releasing it to all Amplenote users. In order for tasks to show up in the Calendar view, one has to set up Task Domains (recent blog post about this).

If your "Personal" tasks mostly reside in a note called "Note A" and under a tag called personal/todo, for example, then you can assign the note and the tag to the "Personal" domain in your settings. This will make all of the tasks fron "Note A" and from any note tagged with personal/todo to appear in your Calendar (as scheduled if they already have due dates, or as unscheduled otherwise).

You can currently set up to 3 Task Domains (and hide or rename them as you please).

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Hello Sai!

Mobile share sheet is not yet implemented. Make sure to upvote this feature request!

In the meantime, you can quickly set up an alternative way of sharing content from your mobile that is just as easy to use by following the steps in this help article. It involves setting up a set of iOS Shortcuts that will appear in the phone's share sheet and that will facilitate sending content to Amplenote (by making use of Amplenote's mail-to-note feature). Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties!

For anyone else interested, the linked article also references a guide for achieving the same results on Android.

Hey there u/WasteDiscussion2!

Thanks for taking the time to write this.

We are considering ways to offer opt-in vault notes without individually converting them, although we don't yet have a timeline for this. As a way of keeping track of user interest and potentially encourage this item on the roadmap, I do encourage you to leave this as its own separate request on the feature leaderboard (optionally mentioning your idea about tag-based separation which sounds like a very appropriate one to me)!

Vault attachments is probably a feature we will try to prioritize from this batch of security items.

To anyone else curious about the details of Amplenote's security design, this help page is a great resource on it. In case you would rather way for more security optiongs before jumping into Amplenote, the best ways to stay up to date with upcoming improvements to security are via Twitter and the blog.

Hope this helps, but reach out if there are any other items we can address!

I've been studying the security design document and I've chatted with the dev team about it to make sure I can give you a valid answer.

My previous response was partially wrong (will edit to point this out), in that Amplenote does have access to the encryption key for standard, non-vault notes. You correctly deduced that indeed Vault notes introduce an additional layer of security by not sharing the encryption key with the servers.

So, to summarize:

• standard notes are encrypted client-side and at rest on the servers, the encryption key is shared with the backend (although it is deliberately separated from the database servers) in order to allow for collaboration and publishing of notes
• Vault notes are encrypted with a key derived from your vault password, which isn't transmitted to AN servers

We also rephrased the blog appendix message to avoid the ambiguous claim ("by default" vs Vault notes), so thank you for pointing this out.

Let me know if I can clarify any further and apologies for the errors in my previous reply!

I jumped in and don't regret it so far. Their credo or whatever you want to call it mentions easy exporting of your notes. My impression is the company doesn't seem to take a grow-at-all-costs approach and appears rather conscious of what they want the app to be. Quite frankly with my past experience I'm just as worried about an app becoming bloated and buggy with half-baked features as I am about staying power.

While a share extension is planned, you can simulate it right now with our mail to note feature, which allows you to email content into any specific note, or a newly-created note for each email. It's not as seamless as a share extension will be, but also allows for a diverse set of workflows to get content into your notes where we don't yet have dedicated options.

Sorry to necro an old thread, but Workflowy handles this via mirroring: https://workflowy.com/feature/mirrors/?utm_campaign=mirrors+launch&utm_medium=in_app_banner

Not demanding you add this or anything, just showing the UX flow. I think they use it in part because there's no unified task view as in Amplenote.

I don't personally use many markdown editors, but after quickly testing it out, it seems like Typora is capable of opening links (On my Windows machine, using Typora I would have to right click on the link and then click on "Open link" which opens the linked note in a separate window).

Another option that I expect should work with Amplenote exports is Obsidian, but I have not tested it myself yet. I expect Google to yield some useful results for your situation, but otherwise I'm sure the /r/Amplenote members would be very happy to help if you created another thread asking them for suggestions!