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linkQ3 2025: Build Winning Habits with Task Streaks, Mood Analytics, and a Smarter Task Pane

Welcome back, Amplenote friends!

Last quarter, we introduced a powerful new foundation for understanding your productivity and well-being: Mood Tracking and Victory Value.1 We gave you the tools to not only track what you got done, but how it made you feel—the first step in Cal Newport's "Good Life Algorithm".1

Since then, you've been collecting invaluable data on your daily highs and lows. But what's the point of tracking all that data if you can't turn it into a better plan?

This quarter, we're answering that question.

Q3 2025 is all about analytics and action. We're shipping a completely revamped "Completed Tasks" dashboard that transforms your raw data into a personal roadmap for a more productive and fulfilling life. These new tools create a powerful reflective feedback loop, helping you learn from your past self to build a better future. It’s time to stop guessing what works and start knowing.

Whether you're looking to build Duolingo-style habits with Task Streaks, find out when you have your best ideas, or just want a faster mobile app, this update has something for you.

Side note to fellow builders: As always, you can see the full, unvarnished list of every single merge in our public changelog. This post is our attempt to synthesize a mountain of those entries into a clear narrative. For the story behind the features, you're in the right place.

linkHeadlining Features: Your Life, Quantified

This quarter's main event is a massive, unified upgrade to the Completed Tasks view (now called "Stats" in the Tasks Pane). These aren't just charts; they're a set of interactive tools for answering the big questions: "What work actually matters?" and "How can I have more '+2' days?".1

linkBuild Unstoppable Momentum with Task Streaks 🎯

We're borrowing a page from the most successful habit-building apps to bring you Task Streaks.1 We all know that motivation is fickle, but the psychological drive to not break the chain is incredibly powerful.

Now, for any recurring task or habit, Amplenote will visualize your consistency in the new "Streaks" tab.

This feature subtly shifts Amplenote from being just a task manager to being your personal habit-formation partner. It's no longer just about completing a to-do list; it's about building an identity—the identity of someone who shows up, every single day.

linkThe "Good Life" Dashboard: Connecting Mood, Tags, and Victory Value

This is the payoff. In Q2, we promised a "long-term happiness hack: Spot the patterns that underlie your +2 and -2 days".1 Today, that dashboard is live.

The new "Overview" tab in your task Stats directly plots your average daily mood against your total Victory Value.1

You can now see the correlation. You can finally prove that days spent on "deep work" tasks (high Victory Value) really do lead to a better mood score. Or you might discover the opposite: perhaps your happiest days are the ones filled with many small, easy wins.

To dig deeper, you can now browse completed tasks by tag and see a full Tag Distribution.1 This is the "What kind of work am I really doing?" report.

Are you making real progress on your strategy tag, or are you stuck in an admin loop? The data is now at your fingertips, and you can even visualize how different subsets of tasks contribute to your overall Victory Value.2

linkTime-Travel Through Your Productivity

A single week is just data, but a year is a pattern. The new Stats dashboard allows for true "Quarterly Reviews" or "Annual Reviews" of your life by letting you navigate your completed tasks by month, stretching back through the years.1

How did your mood this October compare to last October? Was that big project really as productive as you remember it being? This historical perspective is crucial for spotting long-term trends and making meaningful changes.

linkCo-Headliners: A Faster, Smarter Workflow

The new analytics dashboard is your "brain," but you still need an upgraded "nervous system" to act on those insights quickly. This quarter's co-headliners are all about reducing friction and making your day-to-day workflow faster and more intuitive.

linkNew Task Pane Filters: Find Your "Genius Hour"

This is a secret weapon for power users. We've added new filters to the Tasks Pane that let you filter tasks by their "Created" and "Completed" times.1

This transforms your task list from a simple "what's next" list into a dynamic database you can query for profound personal insights.

Try these two use cases:

This is an incredibly actionable insight for structuring your day around your body's natural energy cycles, and it comes from a "simple" filter.

linkA Huge Boost for Mobile: Android Performance & More 🚀

We'll be direct and transparent: we heard our Android users. A productivity tool is only as good as its speed at the point of capture, and our Android app wasn't always meeting that standard, especially on non-flagship phones.

This quarter, we've shipped significant performance improvements for Android.1 The app feels snappier, more reliable, and is more likely to sync your notes before you even open it, ensuring you're always looking at the latest version.1

We've also brought the new analytics to mobile. The completed task graph is now beautifully integrated into the mobile app's "Completed" screen, with a highlight that shows you which range of days you're currently viewing.2

linkPeek Viewer Sticky Headers (A Founder Favorite)

This is one of those small changes that makes a huge difference in daily use, and it's already a "Founder favorite" here on the team.1

The problem: You're scrolling deep within a note in the Peek Viewer sidebar and you forget... which note am I even in?

The solution: The Peek Viewer header, which shows the note's title and options, is now "sticky" and stays visible no matter how far you scroll.

It's a simple fix that reduces cognitive load and keeps you in the flow.

linkFine-Tuning Your Victories: Victory Value Adjustments

The automatic Victory Value score is a great starting point, but we believe the user should always be the ultimate judge. Sometimes, a task that looked small (low score) was actually a massive personal win.

Now, you can right-click on any completed task to manually adjust its Victory Value.1 This "human-in-the-loop" approach ensures your analytics are even more accurate because the source data is being fine-tuned by your own intuition. Better data in, better insights out.

linkMore from the Q3 Changelog: Power-Ups and Polish

As always, the quarter was packed with dozens of smaller upgrades and quality-of-life improvements. Here are some of the highlights.

linkTask Management & Jots Upgrades

A special callout to our Jots users! We know you live in a world of daily notes, which made our per-note "max task target" feature less useful. No more. You can now set a max task target for a tag (like daily-jots).1 This is a huge workflow upgrade that finally allows you to set a sane daily limit for all your open tasks, regardless of which note they're in. We heard you!

We've also made task creation more powerful. The "Add Task" popup now includes the full recurrence rule menu for fixed schedules (e.g., "every 2 weeks"), not just relative schedules.2

And for tasks with deadlines, they are now clearly called out on your calendar, even if they never had a "Start Date," making sure nothing critical slips through the cracks.1

linkNote, Link, and File Enhancements

linkPlatform & Plugin Power

Our plugin developers are getting more power, too. Plugins can now be opened in a full-page sidebar section, allowing for rich, persistent tools (like Excalidraw) to feel like a native part of your workspace.1 We've also added the ability for plugins to open multiple sections or windows, enabling complex workflows like having multiple mind maps or AI-chat sessions open at once.2

Finally, we've shipped another round of web offline caching improvements, making the app more resilient and reliable when your connection drops.1

linkLooking Forward

This quarter was all about learning—building the feedback loop that helps you understand your past work to design a better future. The "Good Life Algorithm" is no longer just a concept; it's a dashboard you can visit every day.

But we're far from done. In the coming quarters, we'll be expanding our AI assistance to help you not only analyze your tasks but execute them more effectively.1 The combination of your personal analytics and smart AI is the future we're building toward.

As always, your feedback on our public voting boards drives our development priorities. What do you think of the new Task Streaks? How are you using the new analytics? Let us know in the forums or on Twitter!