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 3.21.3
NotePlan 3.21.3 brings Siri AI support and gets you ready for macOS 27. NotePlan now works with the new AI-powered Siri, helping you find information in your notes. You'll also find more reliable reminders and sync, new ways to group your notes, and editor improvements.
Siri AI Support & macOS 27 Readiness
- NotePlan is now compatible with the new AI-powered Siri, with improved discovery of your notes and their content.
- Fixed: duplicate split views when opening notes on macOS 27.
Apple Reminders
- Send several selected tasks to Reminders at once.
- Linked reminders follow tasks when you move them to another day.
- Undo and redo now handle reminder creation correctly.
- Fixed: duplicated task content when completing reminders, and improved time and priority updates.
Folder Views & Properties
- Group regular notes and tasks by day, week, month, quarter, or year, using scheduled dates, note timestamps, or date properties.
- Switching saved views preserves each view's settings.
- Hashtags and mentions in frontmatter are now clickable.
Sync & Editing
- Improved: sync reliability, including shared spaces with large note collections.
- Restoring a note version now recovers linked attachments from the trash when available.
- Fixed: unchanged tables overwriting external edits and Markdown links losing their URLs near code blocks.
- Moving tasks preserves indentation, and time blocks ending at midnight work correctly.
- Fixed: crashes caused by invalid theme font sizes.
Plugins
- New: calendar APIs support recurring events and editing individual occurrences.
- Fixed: async plugin calls that could hang, and date values returned to HTML plugins.
On Mac
- Hold Command to embed a dropped file, or Option to insert a link.
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NotePlan for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.21.3
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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.
