NotePlan overview

NotePlan is designed to make your task planning more productive. It solves problems like bloated, ever-growing to-do lists.

Modern Writing - Enjoy a full writing area with Markdown and injected flavour for productivity.
Calendar Notes - A calendar shows you where the action is. Jump right into a day to manage it by writing notes into each day.
Backlog Notes - Save away your backlogs and general notes behind the daily planning and apart from the calendar.

Features

Full, modern writing tool included for every day of a month - NotePlan will give you the convenience of a modern writing editor supporting markdown. Add formatting to your task lists and notes to keep it better organized.
Monthly calendar overview with color-coded daily note content - See a summary of your notes and color coded lists in a monthly calendar view. Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and quickly jump into a day to review or edit it. The calendar will also show you, if you missed out on some tasks, so nothing important slips from your mind.
Schedule tasks to stay organized - If you couldn't finish a task, don't leave it unmanaged on the list. Re-schedule it to another day. Or, if you manage a backlog, schedule a todo directly from there onto your calendar.
Backlogs, drafts, bug lists or just text notes, apart from the calendar - Some information is not related to a day and should be kept separated from the calendar. Like bug lists or project backlogs. They can be managed in NotePlan and scheduled directly into the calendar, when required. Notes can be organized by tagging them. In the overview you can filter your notes by tags.
Your notes are not saved on our servers. You will find them safe and sound in your iCloud Drive.
Integrations to useful apps like iCalender, Reminders, and more are available.

What’s new in version 3.19.3

Spases

Renamed “Teamspaces” to “Spaces”.
Improved Spaces login and onboarding.
Added “Copy Web Link” to open a read-only website version of a Space.
Calendar notes from Spaces now appear inside the References of your private notes.
Fixed folder moves in Spaces creating duplicate folders.

Importing

Added import for Evernote, Apple Notes, and Things 3 (in the menubar Files > Import Notes)

Language Support

Added full Portuguese translation.
Added full French translation.

Fixes and Improvements

Improved sync robustness and recovery in the case the local database gets corrupted.
Fixed missing error message when publishing failed.
Fixed Note Cards font size not resizing.
Enhanced weather API with more detailed location information.
Fixed timeline event width when displaying multiple days.
Moved Lab settings to Sync → Advanced and added a dedicated Spaces settings tab.
Various layout, polish, and stability improvements across devices.

3.5

(11 Reviews of NotePlan)

Comments
User Ratings

Gazman

Oct 31 2024

3.14.2

5.0

Version: 3.14.2

Yes, it is a subscription (and an expensive one at that), but I couldn't do my job (High School Principal) half as well without it. Every now and then I look at the alternatives, but none of them gels with the way I work as fluidly as NotePlan does. I do all my daily planning, meeting agendas, phone call notes, etc. in my daily note, but then I can also link to my other notes. It has Apple Calendar and Reminders built-in, so you can also use it with Siri. It may not be for everyone but this is easily the most used app on my Mac.

Michael-Vilain

Jul 23 2024

3.13.1

0.0

Version: 3.13.1

There are so so many other options. Beaver-Note is open source and offers the same features, is multi-platform, and their cloud sync is cheaper. I use Joplin, also the features. YMMV.

Jan 26 2023

2.4.6

Version: 2.4.6

It doesn't look like MacUpdate has been keeping this app up to date. It's now up to version 3.8 and is still actively developed. Version 3 is a big upgrade (in terms of functionality and price, now being a subscription), but I couldn't live without it.

Jan 10 2020

2.2

Version: 2.2

With the new 'markdown live rendering' (i.e. you see rich text, not markdown even though that's what it's using), this great task management app has become even more user-friendly. The same markdown rendering is also now live on the iPhone/iPad apps as well.