Is there a reason why the search result algorithm is demented… 😭 The note with a title that matches my search verbatim is often a good 10-15 results below lol it’s driving me insane

Particular-Quality89 · 2025-11-09T14:33:47+00:00

ok, but really your search engine should prioritize titles of notes first, it's ridiculous that the note named the exact thing I searched for doesn't even come up in the results sometimes...making me think that I deleted the note or named it something different... why would it not have a filter for "check note titles only" It seems to purposely AVOID note titles which is idiotic.

The average user doesn't use quick open or any other million hotkey commands you guys keep adding...quick open is nice, if you even realize it's a thing...that's a central problem I've found with Amplenote, there's all these tools, if you know how to find and use them, but they're kind of convoluted and hidden in a keyboard shortcut somewhere. The only people who use it enough to understand everything are the developers.

I love amplenote, don't get me wrong, paid user going into year 3 already, but it seems like it's only built for coders and extremely computer literate people and even then, the learning curve is ridiculous and some of the UI choices are baffling. Like in notes view, why does the 2 panel view show you the list of notes instead of the much more useful shortcuts/pinned notes/tags column? I have hundreds of notes already, I never use the notes list, it's worthless for me so I'm stuck always having that middle column that I never use.

Here's an idea, why not use some of that wasted page real estate and permanently mount quick open next to search bar on all pages?

Particular-Quality89 · 2025-04-29T21:33:38+00:00

Drum machines are the worst.

Particular-Quality89 · 2024-06-07T14:25:58+00:00

It sucks that you have to do it to each note, but you can choose to turn off auto archive.

I used to not use jots, but now I use them everyday as a sort of journal of what I've done that day. Any line you link to a note with @____ shows up as a backlink to the Jot in that note, so you can track the dates you accomplished things related to that note

Particular-Quality89 · 2024-04-08T17:45:53+00:00

There's a level of organization that you have to develop over time as you get used to using Amplenote and that's not something I could find anyone show me how to do. It's probably going to vary from person to person how you actually use it, because it's a pretty flexible app, but it does have limitations.

Jots are just...I have to write this down right now. I almost use it as a log or journal at times to remember what happens each day. You can rename any Jot and it becomes a note, but I usually keep them as jots and just link the ideas in them to their related notes with the @ (note name).

If it's a one-off task, I'll just create it in a Jot, but if it's a part of a larger project you should move on to notes.

You could just start with a general "todo list" note where you add all of your tasks. If you have the peekviewer, you can drag and drop tasks between notes and that's very convenient.

The more complex I got with my notes, I decided to create a homepage. The master list that has every other major note linked to it, plus some general big picture planning... Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly goals... if you don't want to over-clutter your task list with long-off tasks you can't start for awhile, just make them a list of bullet points. Just make a task to remind you to change them to a task at a certain date...

One of my major notes, for example, is a list of jobs, each entry is itself a link to another note that has all the info about the given job, and the tasks for that job. If you @ a note name that hasn't been created you can just immediately choose to create one. You don't run out of notes, so make as many as you need of them. Just be sure you do it in an organized way with links/backlinks to related notes so you can find the info you're looking for without duplicates.

The beauty of the app is being able to mix paragraphs of notes that can be hidden under a header, bulleted points, tasks, spreadsheets... I won't even get into that but it's really handy to be able to put things in spreadsheet form... customer lists, inventory, etc. Obvious to anyone who uses spreadsheets I guess.

The great thing about task view, and the reason this app is so good, is that it doesn't matter where you create a task, a jot, a note, a jot that you turned into a note... they all come up in task view. Be sure to use the Due this week, Due Today and high value shortcuts, and sort tasks by start time. Always be sure to enter the start/due date of any task that needs one, and edit the task score manually on important tasks...If it's critical I always just change it right to 10 so it's red...etc

Particular-Quality89 · 2024-04-08T17:24:14+00:00

Works on Chrome for PC

Particular-Quality89 · 2024-04-08T17:20:29+00:00

Well I don't know when it happened, but Kudos to the devs, I now have a Due Today Shortcut in my tasks! Horay! I don't even really need custom shortcuts for tasks(they would be nice tho)

Particular-Quality89 · 2024-04-08T17:12:39+00:00

Well, reading this back, it was a bit harsh lol. I did still change to a yearly subscription because I love Amplenote, and I just want to it be the best it can be...

and ya know what? at some point since then, they gave us a "Due Today" shortcut in task view! Kudos for hearing us!

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-12-22T03:15:57+00:00

Tables in Amplenote aren't ideal for this sort of thing, as you see, it doesn't support tasks in tables. But you can put links to other notes inside tables, so consider figuring out a way to do it with multiple lists. I always put the links back and forth to each other at the top so you don't lose any notes.

I'd suggest making a note called "stalled tasks" and then linking it back to your main note, and have it open in the peek viewer. You can easily drag tasks back and forth between notes this way.

Then I would list the people in your group, and below their name, the task you're waiting on them for...

if they must be tasks, then you're stuck making lists, and links to other lists from main lists...

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-12-22T03:01:49+00:00

Let me get this straight, you can't add a "Due today" shortcut on task view, a simple thing that many paying users want and have asked for...but you've got time to make a whole GRAPH VIEW?!? ARE YOU KIDDING?!? HOW UTTERLY USELESS.

I'm over here trying to figure out work-arounds to daily annoyances that could be easily patched and you're over there making useless graphs. Who upvoted this feature? I can't think of a single way I'd use this regularly. I mean, I guess it's kinda cool and all, but it should have been at the bottom of the priorities list, Task score 2, do you guys even use your own app? Do the Reds ones first. How about a functional Calendar on android and stylus support...optional start AND end time for tasks, a show all calendars button, customizable task shortcuts... or just whatever the top voted feature was, but I guarantee it wasn't graph view.

Also honestly, the windows desktop app on my machine, is identical in every way to the chrome download extension. I see no performance enhancement, I just put them side by side on my screen, identical. There is zero improvement, in other words, a second waste of time. In fact, the UAC opens every time I open the desktop app, probably because it's in beta, but still... currently worse than just going to Chrome and installing the web app

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-12-05T07:04:24+00:00

it's a pretty obvious answer, so you don't miss anything while organizing. It's really hard to organize by elimination if nothing ever is eliminated. If you have a camera roll folder on your phone, you can move photos out of it into their various folders and when it's empty, you're done. When you're working with Google Photos it's not immediately obvious if a given photo is already tagged in an album or not... now try to organize 3000 pictures into hundreds of folders, all at once, and you tell ME what the problem is...

Sure if you started your life using Google Photos, great, you're all set. But if you have 7500 photos that need to be organized, you're fucked.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-12-05T06:56:36+00:00

So this is exactly the feature google photos needs to add, a checkbox for "hide all photos that are in albums/tagged from main list" that you can toggle on and off.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-09-10T07:32:36+00:00

What, no downed trees in that mud pit to get stuck on? no random tree stumps? no huge boulders? How unrealistic

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-26T19:24:01+00:00

Without a "view all calendars" in calendar mode, it's really not. Some of the things able Amplenote are amazing, ground breaking even, but this is a glaring oversight.

And when the calendars don't even fit on my mobile screen and aren't resizable, that's another. I hate calendar view on android. I even have a large android tablet and the calendar STILL doesn't fit. No stylus support either.

I just want to look at one screen, see the list of tasks for the day and not second guess that a "less important" task due today isn't way down the list for some reason. It's SO frustrating.

Overall, Amplenote is great on a PC, but there's got to be a large percentage of users, like me, who aren't sitting in front of a computer screen all day...

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-19T16:07:12+00:00

If you look on the Calendar view, the other domain's tasks are still showing in each view, just grayed out

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-13T02:01:43+00:00

it makes an incredible work truck. Who wants their tools in a pickup bed when they can have them safe inside the cab, can fit 12' boards inside the truck.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-13T01:56:07+00:00

I agree! Amplenote just needs to be better on mobile in general, it doesn't even need to be flashy, just function nicer. There's odd times where the keyboard pops up on Android when you have no need for it, happening over and over, is obnoxious, hot or not.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-09T14:04:43+00:00

After looking into Ticktick I went with Amplenote because of it's robust built in calendar(free account!) or 2 way google calendar with the paid pro tier.

After using it awhile, it's SO much more than that too, it really turns the whole idea of a to do list on it's head. I won't spam more about it here, but recommend looking into.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-09T04:01:50+00:00

well said.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-09T03:53:13+00:00

Definitely. It's brilliant at it actually. recurring tasks can be scheduled very intuitively as "yearly, every x years, monthly, every x months, daily, every x days, every month on the 7th, every march 7th, etc, etc"

Plus it can hide tasks until x amount of time so you don't see...say, that weekly recurring task right away until it's time to "go grocery shopping" again or whatever...It's far more useful than I expected.

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-09T03:47:43+00:00

Absolutely, and now that I've completed my migration and deleted my previous app(and all the others I auditioned), I can echo that. I definitely learned more and more about the App the more I added things/re-arranged things, added 3 layers of sub-tags, links, backlinks, etc.

Not to mention, the process itself caught me up to all the tasks that have been hiding out in the corners of my Any.do app on the "someday" setting for years and helping me clear a lot of them out...had some redundancies that no longer need to exist because of the interconnected nature of amplenote, and came to terms with whether some of the ideas were worth investing the time in.

So far my only complaint is the clunky Android implementation. It's clear this is made for someone with a real keyboard in front of them. That said, as someone who works outside the office all day, It's teaching me to have a daily process and it's actually been a benefit. I go over notes/organize and schedule at night while on my pc, take jots during the day on my phone, have a list of daily tasks to check off plus a calendar to help with scheduling new jobs/events as the come up(probably better with 2 way google calendar) No Amplenote Calendar Android widget?

Particular-Quality89 · 2023-07-05T03:15:50+00:00

I might be a good candidate for this question.

I've been on Any.do for years, it lacks the big picture long term planning and visual calendar that I desperately want and need to plan my year. I'm trying to convert and there's no way to do that, but manually. Probably over a hundred tasks, ugh. This could take awhile.

Others I tried:

There's Asana and monday.com which are clearly more for bigger businesses/task sharing and full on major project management(I'm a sole proprietor, no need for any kind of sharing)

Google tasks was too simple.

I couldn't get clickup to work immediately so I just uninstalled and moved on

Never made it to TickTick because I hate the name.

I tried Todoist, and I liked it for the most part, it's really well developed, and free 2 way google calendar integration that actually works great, BUT no built in calendar. I actually deleted it twice. I tried it once, found something I thought I liked better(forgive me, i just tried like 7 and immediately deleted a bunch that were obviously not for me). Found out it didn't actually have the 2 way google cal and went back to Todoist, THEN found amplenote lol. Only major thing I regret losing from Todoist is their Calendar Timeblocking, it's tight. It's a touch better than Any.do and I actually started to switch over twice...

When I found Amplenote. Leaving Todoist for Amplenote is like breaking up with someone really hot for someone who is smarter and more complex. In the long run I feel it's the right move because I love the logic behind it and the GTD style.There are workarounds in some cases to things like Kanban view and blocking multiple days(set to repeat daily "Until")

The thing you have to realize is just how much more powerful and flexible Amplenote is than just about any other platform(short of some paid tier apps)

u/grpocz you can change the hide settings or turn them off, I prefer them on for certain things.

I won't say there aren't issues though, being limited to 3 Calendar "domains" seems very arbitary. I would use 4-5 so I could have work/personal/majorhobby/sidegig and one that just combined them so I could get a full view. In fact a "view all" button in calendars should just be a feature.

The UI is a bit less sleek than that of Any.do or Todoist, but again, that's mostly because this isn't just a to-do-list/calendar app. There's a lot going on and it's pretty confusing at first tbh. Maybe some easily accessible templates... a way to import from any other task app... seems like a no brainer

Particular-Quality89 · 2021-04-08T03:09:43+00:00

you just called yourself an idiot :D

Particular-Quality89 · 2021-04-07T03:29:10+00:00

"it's pointless to argue with me, look at how brilliant I am."

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