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Q4 2024 Mini-Update: Top-voted features, Task Dependencies & Mirroring, are now live

Read about the three task upgrades that had been top-requested on both our "Supporter Wishlist" and our "Public Wishlist" voting boards.

Amplenote Q3 Updates: Background Images, Calendar Events, Agenda View, plus lots more

Welcome to our quarterly roundup of everything new from a very busy quarter of building. This quarter's greatest focus was on enhancing the beauty of Amplenote for those who have been asking for a ...

🔥 🧩 9 hot plugins you should check out

This month's plugin highlights. Check out these plugins and upvote your favorites.

The 5 Best Todo List Apps for Recurring Tasks in 2024

If you need to get things done on a regular basis, chance are you’ve used recurring tasks in todo apps before. These can be useful for simple chores like “Take trash out every Sunday”, or long-term...

Sorry, But Eisenhower (and WaitButWhy) Were Wrong About Q4

The case for occasionally carving out time in your life for unimportant, non-urgent tasks.

Supporter Drive: Great Success! Thank you!

We know that there is no more truthful measure of how much value we are providing than whether you will spend your earned wages on our product. It is one of many reasons we are grateful for our use...

Last Chance Notice for Amplenote's Supporter Drive. Plus bullet journal, saved search, more...

We are down to the final two days of the Amplenote Supporter Drive, and whether we will hit our goal is looking veeeery close as of when I write this update late on Wednesday July 10. Also: Learn a...

Five Minute Daily Bullet Journal (5MJ): Ink or Bits?

You've been wishing that *somebody* would finish the 20-year-old debate about whether "paper" beats "electronic" for note taking. And you're elated that the perfect fair arbiter to settle this disp...

2024 Amplenote Supporter Drive

June 28 marks the beginning of Amplenote's first Supporter Drive! We've prepped a powerful package of perks for all the active users who have been on the fence about subscribing to Amplenote...

The official Bounty Plugins page: earn prize money for building new plugins

The brand new Plugin Bounties page offers prize money for plugin suggestions submitted by our customers. Also, plugins now sorted by Trending!

Q2 2024 updates: Inline PDF opening, text & background coloring, inline Peek Viewer, lots more

We got so excited by this quarter's flurry of upgrades that it took a minute to get around to bundling it all up into an update post. But good things come to those who wait, and so, dear customer, ...

2024 New Year Release: Note Graph, Native Desktop Apps, Mobile Backburger, and so much more

New Year, new note app: we have released the beta version of our native desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux 🎉 Also new is the release of our top-voted user feature -- a note graph visualizati...

Getting the best out of Amplenote without paying

The complete guide to helping us help you not give us any money!

How the CEO of Amplenote chooses what to work on every day

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Q2 2023: Our biggest quarter of updates ever

We apologize in advance to the completionists. We didn't make this blog post 3,000+ words because it was fun to write. The size of this update reflects the torrent of improvements being made to Amp...

Earn $1,000 + Unlimited Subscription for Authoring a Popular Plugin

Earn $1,000 and a complimentary one-year Unlimited subscription by creating the most popular Amplenote plugin for a month between June and November 2023. This post provides a complete guide to writ...

Your CEO isn't an expert on productivity. So, who is?

How many CEOs, visionaries, and world leaders have you heard touting their favorite productivity app or system? Why don't they?

Sampler #6: Why I use reviews (Part 4: Planning in more depth)

Thanks for sticking around all the way up to the fourth and final part of this mini-series on Reviews. This last bit covers some of the common obstacles when it comes to planning, that is: "What do...

Q1 2023 Updates: Editor plugins; AI like everyone else; mobile widgets; lots more

In just a few months time, we've somehow gone from "what's an LLM?" to more Youtube "get-rich-with-AI" videos than there are people to watch them. By the end of this post, you'll learn how to tap i...

Sampler #5: Why I use reviews (Part 3: Introduction to Planning)

Continuing the exploration of the "minimum viable review" with part 3: Planning.

Sampler #4: Why I use reviews (Part 2: Even better journaling)

Last week we looked into the why behind journaling, now let's look into the how. This edition covers some tips you can use in your own Daily Jots to make Journaling more lucrative.

Sampler #3: Why I use reviews (Part 1: Introduction to Journaling)

In this mini-series on Reviews, we'll cover what a Minimum Viable Review is, how to check in with yourself every week and how that helps you tame your long-term projects and goals. This first part ...

One-time discount opp: 50% off for new Evernote importers

Our team was more than a little surprised to hear that, the original giant of note taking had, in the parlance of aviation, "completed its descent." Here are 5 reasons we believe that Evernote user...

Update roundup: Task search, tables v1, bulk edit notes, embedded code editor, lots more

Development velocity continues at an all-time high, with five more top-voted user requests completed in the past 8 weeks, including: task search, tables, and a fully integrated code editor.

Announcing the Supporter Feature Voting Board

Today we're debuting a new tool to help Amplenote enthusiasts steer our roadmap toward their hopes & dreams.