NotePlan for Mac
Task management with Markdown, calendar and notes.
Free
In English
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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 3.21
Community plugins
- More plugins by the community, mixed in with the core plugins.
- Community plugins carry a COMMUNITY badge and are security-reviewed before being listed.
- New: Stock Ticker, Weekly Review Dashboard, Task Zoom, Reflect, Note Graph, Donote, CRM Dashboard.
Kanban board
- Heading columns — add, rename, remove, reorder.
- Drag and drop columns to reorder.
- "+" button on heading and date columns to add tasks.
- Smoother card dragging.
- Today's column header uses the accent color.
- Date columns sort chronologically.
Tables
- Simple formulas like "=sum" with autocomplete and a formulas submenu (hit "=" in a cell).
- Resizable columns (drag the borders).
- Rewritten tables load faster and scroll more smoothly.
Folder views
- Events and reminders available as sources, enabled under the View menu.
- New Sources option — mix calendar notes and regular notes in one view.
- Drag events and reminders between date columns.
- New filters: Hide Past Events, Hide Timeblock Events.
- New "Rolling 7 Days" timeframe.
- Event editor, context menus, and sorting for calendar items.
- Tap the folder title to jump to today's note.
- Fixed swipe from the edge to open the sidebar when a folder view was open.
In-note find
- Find now also searches inside embedded tables.
Editor
- Optional setting to let tables expand beyond the text width.
- Copy button for code blocks.
- Fold chevrons stay visible for collapsed lines.
- Filter completed or cancelled tasks in References.
- Confirmation before discarding a voice recording.
- Week-number options in the schedule dialog.
Widgets
- New Control Center widgets to quickly add a task or bullet.
Plugin API
- New CommandBar Forms API (CommandBar.showForm) for multi-field dialogs.
- New HTML plugin type with lifecycle events for refresh on show/hide.
- API expanded so notes can be accessed and edited from HTML view JavaScript.
- Tightened plugin URL handling for safer links.
Performance and memory
- Notes with big tables open noticeably faster.
- Lower memory usage with many notes.
- Snappier folder views, tag search, and calendar updates.
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed editor toolbar overflowing with Display Zoom.
- Fixed freezes opening notes with very large tables.
- Fixed references count to show the real number of matches.
- Fixed folder rename merging notes with the same name.
- Fixed slash date parsing for day-first locales (e.g. en_GB).
- Fixed weekly references disappearing when the week didn't start on Monday.
- Fixed the overdue task popover going blank after switching Spaces.
- Fixed an empty calendar on iPad with an external display.
- Fixed table content being wiped when moving between notes.
- Fixed x-callback links being stripped when pasting.
- Fixed a clipped highlight and caret at the bottom of a note.
- Fixed several rare stability crashes.
NotePlan for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.21
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User Ratings
Oct 31, 2024
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.
Jul 23, 2024
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
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
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.
Aug 13, 2019
Version: 2.0.16
Solid app, regularly updated. Bought this a few months ago and am slowly migrating my Todoist tasks to it.
