NotePlan
Launched 2016
139 features found available
In their words
NotePlan combines your notes, tasks, and calendar in one app. Link everything together for a complete view of your work and plans. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for NotePlan:
Annual: $8.33 / month
Monthly: $12.00 / month
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
The app allows note content to be created & viewed with minimal formatting and today's date as the default note title
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
The light/dark setting of the OS can control whether light or dark layout
Different sets of colors can be chosen to alter the appearance of the app window
Custom CSS can be included by the note editor to effect a specific theme via CSS
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
A word or phrase can be selected and queried for additional explanation
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the app
App will import existing events from an external calendar (e.g., Google Calendar) and show them within the app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There is a dedicated venue such as Discord where users can chat about the product in real time
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
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?
Note data can be encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider (sometimes referred to as "end-to-end encryption")
Attachments included with note data are encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider
The entire account's worth of notes, not just individual notes, can be encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider
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.
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)
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Does text formatted as code get syntax highlighting?
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content from within the app can be translated into text
What functionality specific to images is possible?
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
Notes can be deleted from an active account en masse without emailing the company
App includes a built in importer for any markdown notes (MD)
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
A list of different versions of the note from past various points with the ability to revert to any of them
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Hotkeys can be remapped from their default values
It's possible to setup callbacks to external services when a note changes
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
The app allows users to develop and package extended app functionality. A directory is provided to help users browse and install plugins
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
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
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
For any given note, the app provides a way to browse all other notes that contain links pointing to it
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Means provided to link to specific content in another note (be it a heading, paragraph, task, or bullet)
A dialog is provided to look up other notes as link targets while creating a new link in a note
A dialog is provided to look up other specific headers/blocks as link targets while creating a new link in a note
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
Notes can have metadata or frontmatter ("properties"), which can be used to locate the note later
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
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
The note owner has options for different levels of permissions when sharing a note with other users who have an account (ex: full access, read only, editable by others)
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Allows for basic text formatting (e.g., bold, italics) to an entire row or column of data within a table
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
A specific date and time at which a task is scheduled to be addressed
There exists a means by which one can designate a task as being "high priority"
There exists the means to mark a task as "Important," implying the task should not be forgotten but needn't be done soon
There exists a means to mark a task not only as "High priority," but "Urgent," which brings the additional implication that the task is to be completed soon.
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
Did we miss something?
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