Milanote
Launched 2016
114 features found available
In their words
Get organized. Stay creative. Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Milanote:
Free plan- $0
Personal plan- $9.99/month billed annually
Team plan- $49/month billed annually
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
A note can preview content embedded from another note in the same pane as the note itself
A note can preview and edit content embedded from within another note or section
Editor can show content exactly as it will be exported/printed
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in an external PDF viewer
Interactive preview of a Tweet will be displayed, including any rich content
Playing and interacting with YouTube videos is possible from within a note
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
Company has averaged at least one blog post or change log per month over the past year that details recent product updates
The company provides a list of the app's upcoming and newly added features for public consumption
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
Documented claim that all note data and their attachments are encrypted on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Audio can be placed in a note with embedded controls to start and stop the audio
a vertical bar formatted to the left of the selected text allows for an indented "quote" styling
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
A sub-list contained within an unordered list
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
There exists a means to recolor the background behind specific text in more than one color
Note content can be laid out in multiple columns without any visible borders (i.e., not in a table)
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Text can be indented (without bullets, block quote, or other incidental features)
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
A monospace font with its own background color can be invoked without breaking a line. Sometimes referred to as "inline code"
Numbers are used at the beginning of the line to assemble ordered lists
A sub-list contained within an ordered list
Text can be explicitly designated as "center"-aligned, "right"-aligned or "justified"
User can choose an explicit font (not just a theme) to restyle text
Videos can be placed in the body of a note, with controls to start and stop the video
An open canvas view where blocks of text, images, and other content can be dragged to any horizontal or vertical coordinate
What functionality specific to images is possible?
Text with special formatting can be added beneath an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
The note app allows the edges of the picture to get dragged so it becomes larger or smaller
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Without leaving the app, text can be drawn on top of an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be rotated (e.g., 90 degrees, counterclockwise)
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
When an export is initiated, the downloadable package includes image files for each image uploaded to the user's notebook
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Supports syntax allowing diagrams and charts (Mermaid, etc) to be inserted into a note body
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
Features specific to the mobile experience
When picking the "Share with..." option from an iOS app, the app exposes a means for sending content to the app
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
A menu to view available keyboard shortcuts is located within the app
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
It's possible to drag-and-drop, or otherwise relocate a branch of the organization hierarchy to a new location
Nodes in the note hierarchy can be colored
A note can be pinned to the top of the note list for easy access, and will stay there until unpinned
A hotkey is available that can be used to access an input box that searches notes, and a note can be selected from that list without using the mouse
The portion of the note that matches a user search query is shown on all desktop and mobile platforms
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Collaborators can be referenced via an @ prefix, receiving a notification upon being mentioned
App provides means to embed note content in web pages outside the app
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
A conversation thread is available at the top level of a shared note
When multiple users are concurrently editing a shared note, their cursors are visibly demarcated
It is possible to deduce which users are currently viewing, and editing, a note
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Highlight the background of any table cell with a variety of color options
Column data types (e.g., numeric, text, enumerated) can be defined such that they restrict the type of input that can be entered into a cell
Formulas can be deduced by an inline autosuggest hint
Table formulas can perform mathematical equations
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
An option exists to designate who is expected to complete a task
A specific date and time at which a task is scheduled to be addressed
An alert time can be associated with a task, or note, before it is due. (e.g., remind me 1 hour before task is due)
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
Web clipper allows choosing a note to insert image into
An official Chrome web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
When the clipped selection is sent to a note, the title, and body of its text can be found using the apps search function
An official Firefox web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
An official Safari web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
Did we miss something?
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