NotePlan for Mac
Task management with Markdown, calendar and notes.
Free
In English
Version 3.21.2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
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 3.21.2
- The share sheet lets you edit the title when creating a new note, and the keyboard no longer covers the form (iOS)
- The note menu has a new "Update" button that renames the file to match the note's title (Mac)
- Cmd+K now converts a selected wiki link into an alias link (Mac)
- Custom transcription hosts (Groq, local Whisper) work again, and failures show a real error instead of failing silently
- Fixed auto-inserted templates landing on the previous day's note after a timezone change
- Fixed [[note|alias]] including the alias in the filename when creating the note
- Fixed background Shortcuts pulling the NotePlan window to the front, and disabled "Note" menu items when the sidebar has focus (Mac)
- Fixed Markdown export of shared-space notes — content and attachments (Mac)
- Fixed the collapsed Plugins section in the sidebar re-expanding on every click (Mac)
- Fixed a crash opening an event from a folder view on macOS 26
- PDF printing: tables render correctly, and wide images fit the page
- Fixed several freezes and hangs — heavily folded notes with time blocks, startup delays on large libraries, and a permanent freeze from stale time-block ranges; on iOS, also opening notes and adding a note in a folder view
Full list of changes available here
NotePlan for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.21.2
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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.
