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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 27, 2021 at 04:43 PM
I noticed that Amplenote was mentioned in the spring, but hasn’t really received much attention here since. I am enthusiastic about this app. I especially like that you can create tasks in any note, then see a list of all tasks throughout your notes.
For a good introduction, take a look at this video:
BTW, one thing I love about this video is that the presenter ends the introduction with use cases. That’s all too often missing from such videos.
Steve Z.
Posted by satis
Jan 27, 2021 at 09:49 PM
Seems to be as privacy-conscious as Standard Notes, but more full-featured (albeit for $20/yr more).
Posted by megatron
Jan 28, 2021 at 12:43 PM
I moved to Amplenote from Evernote three months ago and it has been working well for me. I would lump Amplenote in with Roam or Obsidian as a personal knowledge manager, but it also borrows a subset of the features of a filing cabinet-type application such as Evernote, and a task management apps such as Things. The key features of Amplenote include:
1. Backlinks with context. The context is well done here. If the link is in a bullet, the entire bullet is provided as context in the linked note. If the link is to a heading in the document, then the entire section is transcluded.
2. Rich footnotes. While creating links there are several fields that you can populate.I like to add a description in my links that explains the reason I am link the notes.
3. PDFs and image files attached to notes are searchable with OCR. The OCR works well and there is a button on images to pull the text from the photo into the body of the note.
4. Task list. All todos are pulled out of all notes in a tab of the application. The tasks have fields for marking priority, urgency, importance, due date, etc. It uses that data to calculate a task score. The task list can be sorted by tag, task score, which note it appears in, etc.
5. Calendar integration. You can assign reminders on tasks or block time you want to to work on tasks and that will be sent to your Outlook or Google calendar.
Posted by satis
Jan 28, 2021 at 03:43 PM
I’m all for calendar integration when possible, but since the sync process here is one-way only date and data get synced to the calendar, but not the other way around. So with apps like Amplenote and Dynalist you must switch between editing dates in the app and using the calendar to view your events. And if you see conflicts and need to make changes you have to switch back to the notes app to make the changes. This is so frustratingly clumsy that I avoid using the feature.
The task manager I use has two-way sync, so that when inside my calendar I can move events around and have them link back to the task manager. I think that’s the way it should be done with all these apps.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 28, 2021 at 06:29 PM
Amplenote claims to be planning to have its own calendar at some point in the coming year. I don’t know if that will improve the situation or not. I agree, two-way integration with your calendar is crucial.