When comparing Facilethings vs Amplenote, the Slant community recommends Facilethings for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform task apps?” Facilethings is ranked 29th while Amplenote is ranked 55th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Helps the weekly review process
Pro Allows adding items via email
Simply send an email to info@facilethings.com to add a new item to the Inbox.
Pro Support of a "start" date and a "expected" date
This is a very outstanding feature for a gtd App.
Pro Horizons of Focus
FacileThings integrates GTD's Horizons of Focus.
Pro Allows attachments in emails
You can collect stuff in the FacileThings Inbox by sending an email with attachments to the inbox@facilethings.com address.
Pro Full Integration and Syncing with Evernote
All notes are automatically synced.
Capture things in Evernote and the notes will appear in the FacileThings inbox.
Reference Material in Evernote will appear in Facile Things.
Pro Integrates with a bunch of third-party tools
Facilethings can integrate with Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox and Google calendar.
Pro Very simple
Pro Excellent support
Pro Notes encrypted at rest on servers
See here.
Pro Long-term minded
Company has not raised venture capital.
Pro "Idea Execution Funnel" methodology
Schema follows sensible flow from capture to revision to prioritize to schedule.
Pro Community-driven
Team maintains a voting board at https://amplenote.featureupvote.com that drives development roadmap, ensuring calibration between note enthusiasts and the product.
Pro Publish and share notes
Publish notes to the web (with configurable URLs) or share notes with collaborators.
Pro Offline-first
Fully functional offline mode.
Pro Omniplatform
Can be installed on macOS, Linux, Windows (via PWA), iOS and Android.
Pro Task/calendar syncing (Google Calendar & Outlook)
Any task with a date/time assigned to it will be exported to calendars optionally connected. Completing the task removes it from calendar.
Pro Multi-level tagging (personal/hobbies/bike-rides) to keep organized
Any note can be assigned as many deeply nested tags as desired. The tag hierarchy can be navigated, filtered on tasks or notes.
Pro Backlinking & networked note references
Amplenote supports the same [[]] syntax popular in Roam to create a link to an existing note. Every linked note has a tab with all the references into that note.
Pro Automatically sorted task list
Every task can be marked as "Urgent" or "Important," along with the time it's due. This makes it possible for the software to automatically sort your todo list in a way that makes sense, and save you time of deciding what to work on first every day.
Cons
Con Android app
The Android app is not always reliable and doesn't have all of the features of the desktop app.
Con Rather slow
The web app has some performance issues. It feels too unresponsive at times.
Con A lot of clicking
Little inline editing or keyboard shortcuts.
Con Relatively costly
Con No native Windows App
Con Mobile web version is rubbish
Con Not end-to-end encrypted
See here.
