Native tasks living inside notes
Turn any thought into a task without leaving the page. Add any detail inline. Imbue task text with pictures and videos to mince words.
Best Obsidian alternative
Keep your linked notes. Finish more of the work.
Obsidian is excellent for local-first knowledge vaults. Amplenote is built for the next step: turning connected notes into prioritized tasks, calendar blocks, shared plans, and measurable progress—without assembling a fragile plugin stack.
Native tasks
Calendar scheduling
Shared notes & tags
Mood + completion stats
Shape thoughts into actions
Jots → Notes → Tasks → Calendar, designed as one execution funnel.
Search notes, tasks, tags…
Research launch plan
Meeting notes, source links, delegated tasks, and calendar commitments stay connected inside the same living note.
Draft comparison section for Obsidian users
Important
30 min
@Blake
Schedule design review with marketing
Today
Calendar
Import example Markdown vault
Done
Victory +18
Rich Footnote: plugin comparison notes
Embed research, screenshots, links, or videos without losing task context.
Imports from
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Evernote
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Obsidian
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Notion
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Todoist
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Google Keep
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Markdown
Bring your existing notes with you
Drop in an Evernote, Roam, Obsidian, or Markdown export to import notes in seconds. Your trial starts the moment your file is ready.
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Cancel anytime from inside the app.
One flow
Capture ideas, refine notes, rank tasks, and schedule work.
Less setup
Core productivity tools are native instead of plugin-dependent.
Shared context
Collaborate on individual notes or entire tagged knowledge bases.
Visible progress
Review completed work, Victory Value, and mood trends.
Why switch?
Built for the part after note-taking.
Obsidian helps you build a vault. Amplenote helps you build momentum from the notes inside it.
Task Score reduces decision fatigue
Important, urgent, short, and repeatedly reviewed tasks rise in priority so the most action-worthy tasks bubble to the top.
Calendar scheduling is native
Drag tasks out of your notes and onto your calendar. Time-block the work without maintaining a separate planning system.
Collaboration without vault gymnastics
Share single notes, or all linked notes. Share tags. Publish groups of notes. Delegate tasks between collaborators.
Mood and progress analytics
Recall how your energy level tracked, not just what got done. Completed Task Stats connect past with future by revealing correlations.
Markdown import, no lock-in energy
Bring an Obsidian vault into Amplenote, then keep exporting when needed. Your system should serve you, not trap you.
Idea execution funnel
From spark to scheduled work.
A landing page should make the product’s workflow obvious before a visitor reads the details.
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Capture
Jot the idea fast, clip the source, or add a quick task before context disappears.
2
Connect
Use backlinks, tags, and rich footnotes to keep source material attached to the work.
3
Prioritize
Task Score pulls important, urgent, and high-leverage tasks toward the top.
4
Schedule
Drag tasks into calendar blocks so good intentions become real time commitments.
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Review
Completed Task Stats show what got done, what mattered, and how it felt.
Amplenote vs Obsidian
Choose the tool that matches your actual goal.
Use Obsidian when your highest priority is a local Markdown vault. Use Amplenote when your notes also need to drive execution.
| Capability | Amplenote | Obsidian |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit |
Notes → tasks → calendar
A single workspace for knowledge, planning, and follow-through. |
Local-first knowledge vault
Excellent for Markdown note collections and personal graph-building. |
| Task execution |
Native tasks and Task Score
Prioritization, duration, hiding, recurrence, and task views are built into the core workflow. |
Markdown tasks, plugin-powered depth
Basic checklist syntax is native; advanced task systems often require plugins and configuration. |
| Calendar planning |
Drag tasks to your calendar
Move from ranked task list to scheduled time block inside Amplenote. |
Less native
Calendar-centric workflows generally depend on community plugins or external systems. |
| Collaboration |
Share notes and shared tags
Built for shared notes, team knowledge bases, meeting minutes, and collaborative task context. |
Shared vaults via Sync
Useful for shared files, but no live same-file editing and no fine-grained permissions yet. |
| Mood + task stats |
Native reflection layer
Mood/energy tracking and Completed Task Stats help connect effort, value, and wellbeing. |
Not native
Possible to approximate manually or via plugins, but not a built-in product loop. |
| Plugin overhead |
Essentials bundled
The core productivity path works without building a stack of third-party extensions. |
Powerful but time-consuming
Community plugins are flexible, but discovery, trust, compatibility, and updates take attention. |
| Migration |
Obsidian import path
Import zipped Markdown files and preserve key content types where supported. |
Markdown-friendly
Strong file portability and local storage are core strengths. |
Plugin stack replaced by native workflow
Amplenote
Task prioritization
Important, urgent, short, reviewed, blocked
Native
Calendar planning
Drag tasks into time blocks
Native
Collaboration
Notes, shared tags, assigned tasks
Native
Mood + stats
Completed work, Victory Value, mood trends
Native
Publishing
Share a living note with the web
Native
Fewer decisions before doing
Stop tuning your system. Start trusting it.
Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem is a gift for tinkerers. But when the goal is execution, every plugin choice adds another maintenance decision. Amplenote’s advantage is that the usual productivity stack is already wired together.
The promise: keep the connected thinking that Obsidian users love, but remove the friction between “I wrote it down” and “I actually did it.”
Migration
Bring your Obsidian vault into a system that acts on it.
Start with your Markdown files. Keep the parts that matter: note formatting, links between notes, tags, images, code snippets, and supported attachments.
Images uploaded
Formatting preserved
Links between notes
Tags applied to notes
Code snippets
Supported attachments
Three-step import
1
Select your Obsidian vault Markdown files.
2
Compress them into one zip file.
3
Upload through Amplenote’s Markdown import.
Your notes already know what matters. Amplenote helps you act on it.
Trade plugin maintenance for a native notes-to-tasks-to-calendar workflow that keeps knowledge, priorities, collaboration, and progress in one place.
