Amplenote encourages its users to follow the advice of productivity experts: instill an agenda that mixes short, medium and long-term goals. Because, yes, it's nice to have an app that reliably keeps track of what you might work on; but if you're like most people, you're often stuck in busywork tasks that don't improve your long-term prospects. Getting more done in that case doesn't bring you closer to "fulfilled." You can do better.
You don't have to stay mired in a daily routine that feels more like "firefighting" than 🔥, but you need a compass. The key to gradually improving your satisfaction is to shake out some critical truth: where you are headed?
Of course, easier written than derived. Nevertheless, we assert that thinking hard about your Quarterly and Monthly Goals is not only recommended by most esteemed authors. It is the tunnel that draws you toward answers in assessing "What changes will make next quarter even more enjoyable than this one?" Once you know that, you can begin to determine which tasks, if scheduled & completed, will leave "future you" happier and healthier?
linkWhat is Plan Builder?
It is a wizard built into Amplenote's Mission Control Dashboard that uses frontier LLMs to guide you toward discovering which direction will leave your future self in the best possible state.
It begins by requesting a "Highest level intent," i.e., "What's the end game you're working toward this quarter?" A vague or broad answer is fine, if not expected – the point of this wizard is that it will help deliver the specifics of what to work on (and when to work on those specifics).
linkThe payoff: Suggested agenda on calendar
Amplenote's Idea Execution Funnel is all about making "idea capture" near-instant, then helping to nurture your inchoate scribbles into action-ready tasks for the calendar. Traditionally, Amplenote users have used the Calendar pane to drag high-relevance tasks onto the calendar, but as of 2026, the "Suggest" button proposes tasks for you:
Hover on any suggestion to see the rationale for scheduling it:
Task suggestions are generated by the combination of the Dashboard and Agent Pro plugin, so ensure that you have both installed in order to access your custom-tailored recommendations.
linkPlan Builder steps
As of Q3 2026, Plan Builder is still under active development, so we are still soliciting user feedback to ensure that we're asking the right questions in the right order to produce a game plan that is attuned to the user's taste. However, we can say that the general steps will include:
link1. High-level intent
What are the highest-reward personal and professional achievement that you might hope to experience in the coming months?
Sketching out high-level intent
For example, in the next quarter you might professionally aim to "grow subscriber base by 20%," or "increase revenue by 30%," or "get featured in XYZ."
link2. Specific projects
Getting more granular, what are some of the specific areas that you believe deserve attention before the end of this quarter?
A list of projects is backed up by an evidence gathering, which is enumerated if you click "View sources" from the "Projects" page.
Recommended or actual projects, grouped by associated & proposed tasks
This page is likely to become further integrated into Amplenote to the extent that users find it useful to think in terms of emergent (less-so explicit) projects.
link3. Project pacing
At what rate do you expect to work on each of the projects in your roster?
link4. Monthly pacing
Would you like to schedule some tasks to receive focus earlier in the quarter vs later?
link5. Surprise twist finish
If you want to see the last step of Plan Builder, try it out. This is our favorite feature, and one that we can guarantee you will not find in other task apps.