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Capture: Jots & Amplecap
- Amplecap: capturing web content with our Chrome/Firefox extension
- Amplecap usage examples
- Create a task from a jot
- Creating future daily jots
- Fastest way to add a task from phone?
- Forward emails (Gmail, Outlook, etc) to a note inbox of your choosing
- From Jot task to scheduled event on calendar
- Global task/event capture hotkey on desktop (Bonus: global note open key)
- iOS/Android Share Sheet: Sending text, links, images and PDF files on mobile
- "Jots" -- what are they vis-a-vis "Notes"?
- Mobile long-press options
- Recording voice notes, speech-to-text, audio notes, or voice typing (OpenAi, Siri)
- Sync your Kindle/Readwise Highlights
- Using OCR (optical character recognition) to extract image contents to text
- What are Jots suggestions and how to configure them?
Notes & Writing
- Applying custom foreground and background color to text and table cells
- Calculations: dates, time and math
- Code block & colored block text formatting
- How do I create a new note?
- Jump to top of notes list
- Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) & markdown syntax examples
- Link to new or existing notes (at @ and double-bracket [[ notation)
- Multi-note selections and bulk actions
- Note content formatting and page layout options
- Note templates (aka note duplication)
- Note version (aka "revision") history
- Outlining with collapsible bullets, tasks, and headings
- Rich Footnotes and content previews
- Tables
- Transcluding blocks and unlinked references
- View note revision history
- What other note settings are there?
- Word count and character count
Tasks & Todo Lists
- Assign/delegate tasks
- Batch moving & updating tasks, batch changing Task Score
- Checkboxes (lightweight tasks that don't show up in Tasks Mode)
- Completed tasks: see what's getting done
- Create a task (to-do list)
- Cross out (strikethrough) when task complete to leave it inline
- Filtering tasks: tags and note references (backlinks aka projects)
- Hide (snooze) a task until later
- How does Task Score work?
- How to add images, videos, text, and other details to a task?
- Keyboard-driven ! Task Commands Menu to snooze, assign due date, more
- Linking tasks: "Block," "Mirror," "Implement Goal," and basic task connections
- Nested tasks and subtasks
- Set a task Start Time (aka "Due Date") using natural language
- Setting a maximum limit of open tasks per note
- Tasks Mode Overview, and how to show visible due/starting time
- The iOS & Android Quick Task Bar: creating tasks and to-do lists on mobile
- View a task's surrounding context from Tasks or Calendar view
Calendars & Scheduling
- Agenda View (group tasks by due date)
- Calendar: Detailed Visual Guide
- Calendar Task Domains
- Color external and internal calendar events and tasks
- Connect Google, Outlook or Apple Calendars with two-way sync
- Dismiss tasks: Prevent completed tasks from showing on calendar
- Getting a task reminder through your calendar
- How do I change the first day of the week in the Calendar?
- Meeting notes for calendar events
- Recurring events and tasks: fixed and flexible options
- Rescheduling en masse: Options to make fast adjustments to many tasks
- Scheduling a deadline for a task (to-do item deadlines)
- Scheduling "events" vs scheduling "tasks" (how to schedule events)
- Setting an event (task) reminder time
- Task push notifications
Organize Everything
- Backlinking (bidirectional linking)
- Control auto-tagging of newly linked notes
- Deleting all notes
- How do tags work in Amplenote?
- How to define what is "Important" and "Urgent"?
- Idea Execution Funnel: How ideas evolve in Amplenote
- Managing tasks across multiple projects with nested tags
- Moving & organizing tasks (to-do items) in Notes & Jots
- Naming your tag hierarchy: five recommendations
- Note Graph View: visualize & create new note connections
- Organizing notes into folders using hierarchical tags
- Organizing, sorting, and viewing tasks lists
- Peek Viewer: Sidebar for multi-note viewing
- Shortcuts and Pinned Notes (saved searches, tag shortcuts, etc.)
- Tag settings: coloring, moving, renaming, deleting and merging
- What does archiving a note do?
Devices & Syncing
- Comparing the Amplenote PWA to our native desktop app
- Does Amplenote work offline?
- How does syncing work?
- How do I download mobile apps?
- How many devices can I use?
- How to enable web storage in the browser
- Installing Amplenote
- Native Desktop app client
- Recovering recently deleted notes
- Which devices are supported?
- Why is my uploaded image showing as a gray box?
- Widgets: an iOS and Android glimpse into your agenda & lists
Security
- Enabling Two-Factor Authentication (2fa) on Amplenote
- How are my Amplenote notes secured?
- How are my uploads to Amplenote secured?
- How secure is Amplenote?
- Login with email/password when your account is connected to Google/Apple ID
- Longevity pledge, commitment to long-term availability
- Our "note decryption" policy
- What are Vault Notes and how do I create them?
Search, Lookup & Navigation
- All about searching, lookup and filtering for notes and tasks
- Backlinked note references: finding and formatting
- How do I use Quick Open navigation?
- Inserting a Table of Contents
- Navigate through recently opened notes and modes (backburger history menu)
- Note Reference Filtering (or Inline Tags, or task tagging)
- Search queries: tag filters & other searchable symbols
- Tag Shortcuts, and the Default Shortcut
- Working with table formulas
Sharing & Publishing
- Collaboration status icons
- Export a note to PDF
- How do I embed notes in web pages (e.g., your blog)?
- How do I prevent shared notes from being edited?
- How do I publish notes to the web?
- Leave comment feedback on work and conduct follow up discussions
- Managing collaborators list
- Publishing notes with background color and image
- Removing Amplenote branding from published content
- Shared notes and shared tags: flexible collaboration options
- Share groups of notes or tags via tag share
- Styling a blog for use with embedded notes
Import & Export
- Automatic (live) backup for note content, images, and other attachments to a local directory
- Exporting your notes
- How long does importing take?
- How will my exported notes be formatted?
- How will my notes be organized?
- Import from Markdown
- Import from Obsidian
- Importing from Evernote
- Importing from Google Keep
- Importing from Notion
- Importing from Roam
- Importing from Todoist
- What are Amplenote's storage limits?
Use Cases
- Building habits (flexible recurrence)
- Creating a bespoke Kanban Board
- Getting the best out of Amplenote without paying
- How the CEO of Amplenote chooses what to work on every day
- How to QUICKLY capture tasks in Amplenote (how to create an Inbox)
- Images & Videos: Mastering the medium, plus suggested use cases
- Improve research & thinking depth via Rich Footnotes
- Keep a more focused long-term to-do list
- Remember everyone you've ever met
- Schedule the week in under 10 minutes
- What tasks are scheduled to start (aka due) on today & tomorrow?
Account & Subscriptions
- Are student/academic pricing discounts available?
- Deleting your Amplenote account
- Free Unlimited monthly subscription opportunity
- How do I cancel my plan?
- How do I sign up for a plan?
- How do I upgrade, downgrade, or otherwise change my subscription plan?
- How will I be billed for my plan?
- Invite friends, coworkers to Amplenote for swag & bonuses
- Profile badges available to earn
- Setting a theme to change editor coloring
- User referral program & affiliates
- View Account Settings
- What plans are available?
Make it Sparkle
- Appearance control: configuring "Theme" and "Light/Dark" preferences
- Connect Amplenote to other apps using Siri Shortcuts, IFTTT or Pipedream (custom API integrations & automations)
- Controlling "Standard" vs "Full" width layout for notes
- Create your own styled blog with instant updating to replace Wordpress
- Handwriting and drawing (native iPad and Excalidraw)
- Inspire yourself with beautiful note background styles
Goals, Forums & Social
Extending Amplenote
- Amplenote roadmap via feature voting: how we choose what to work on next
- Guide to Building Plugins (Beginner to Advanced)
- Installing & Using Amplenote Plugins
- Note Attachments: Adding images, videos, audio, PDFs, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files to notes
- Opening PDFs, Youtube videos, and other content in Amplenote
- Plugin API Reference Documentation
- Plugin Example: AI Plugin
- Plugin Markdown Reference
- Published Plugins Directory
- REST API Documentation
- Using the default AmpleAI plugin