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Our search for a perfect note taking app might never come to an end, but sometimes an app comes out which gets as close to perfect as it can. Bear did it last year and now it seems to be the time for Agenda to do the same thing. Now, keep in mind that the definition of a perfect note taking app differs from person to person. Depending on your needs, you might prefer one which is truly cross-platform and has extra features like a web clipper, and sadly Agenda is none of those things.

That said, Agenda is a fairly capable app which offers a ton of novel features which none of the other note taking apps do. Think of Agenda as an amalgamation of a note taking the app, a calendar, and a task manager. And what’s best is Agenda brings all those things by creating a harmony between them, such that none of the features it offers feels out of place. If the premise of the app has you even a little bit intrigued by now, here is my in-depth review of the app to help you decide if it’s the one for you or not.

Agenda Review: Overview

As the title of this article suggests, Agenda is a note taking app which is based entirely on the calendar. Well, that’s good, but what does it actually mean? It means that Agenda has utilized the good old calendar to help you organize your notes in a way that none of the other note taking apps do. Every note you create can be assigned a date. So, you can easily file them, search for them, and more. You have the ability to assign dates to note in the past, present, or future, which really comes useful, but more on that later.

First, let’s take a tour of the app. In the picture above, you can see how the app looks like. The app offers a three-pane view. The leftmost pane houses all your categories and projects which are the primary level of notes categorization. When you click on a project, it will show you all the notes inside that project.

The middle pane is where all your notes are stored in a reverse chronological order. You can click on any note to edit it or collapse it. The last pane is where all your calendar events and recently edited notes will show.

You can easily close the first and the last pane by dragging on the handle shown in the picture above. It will appear as soon as you hover near on the boundary lines of adjacent panes. That is pretty much it. As you can see, it’s a very simple looking notes app, but it is also very powerful. We will see all its powers and the features it offers in the coming sections.

Note Taking and Organizational Basics

As I mentioned above, Agenda gives you three major hierarchy for notes. First is called a category, then comes the projects, and then there are individual notes. You can create notes only inside a project, so you must at least have a single project to be able to create notes. Creating a project is really easy, you can either click on the obscure plus button at the bottom of the left pane, or you can just hit the keyboard combo ⌘⇧N (Cmd+Shift+N).

Similarly, you can create a category by hitting the ⌘⌥N (Cmd+Opt+N) key combo and a new note by hitting ⌘N. Another easy way to create a new note is by clicking on the yellow plus button present in the notes panel.

1. Editing and Note Styling Options

Now that you know how to create a project, category, and a note, let’s see what you can do with your notes. Whenever you create a new note, it will be created with an “Untitled Note” title, which obviously you can edit. Below the title is the place where you can type. Once you start typing, you will notice a simple blue dot at the left of the line you are currently on. Clicking on the blue dot will give you different styling options like creating a heading, sub-heading, italicizing, bolding, and underlining among others.

Of course, you can use the usual key combos like ⌘I, ⌘B, and ⌘U to italicize, bold and underline the texts. However, if you want other options, like creating headings and indentations, you will have to go through the blue dot menu. The blue dot menu is the place where you will also go if you want to create a list, whether it’s a bullet list, numbered list, or a checklist. You can also add tags and assign notes to a person from the same menu, but there’s an easier way to do that and we will talk about that in the next section.

Apart from text notes, you can also attach pictures to your notes. However, attaching pictures in Agenda is a little bit different from how the function is handled by other apps. To attach a picture, you will have to drag and drop the picture inside the note. But when you do that, the picture actually doesn’t show up in the notes, rather it creates a link to the picture. So, if you delete or move the picture from its original location, you won’t be able to open it.

2. Tagging and Filtering Notes by People

Apart from the usual hierarchal form of organization, Agenda also allows you to categorize notes by using tags and filters. Tags work just like they do on any other note-taking app. You just put a hashtag(#) symbol before the word you want to use as a tag and that tag will be added to that note.

You can add any number of tags on a single note and the same tags can be used in multiple projects or categories. Tags give you a relatively relaxed way of organizing your notes. It’s an easy way to keep track of similar notes, even when they are in different projects.

Another way to organize notes is by using filters. Filters work a little differently on Agenda as the app basically lets you filter notes using people. For example, if you are working on a project with multiple people under you, you can easily assign specific notes to different people by using the filters. Just type the name of the person preceded by the @ symbol (@Jena). Both the tags and filters are searchable entities which makes it really easy to use them as fluid categories.

3. Importing and Exporting

One of the best features of Agenda is its ability to easily import and export notes. Agenda support imports for Agenda files, Markdowns, and Apple Notes. To import a note, one needs to follow this path, the File menu → Import and then select the relevant option.

In my testing both the imports for markdown and Agenda files worked perfectly, however importing files from Apple Notes did bring certain problems. I like the fact that Agenda turned folders of Apple notes into its projects which helped in keeping the note hierarchy.

That said, none of my links or photos were imported which made the whole import process useless. I can understand the photo import problem as Agenda doesn’t support native image imports, however not being able to import links was unexpected, especially when it easily imported links from my markdown files.

When it comes to exporting, Agenda support exporting in PDF, markdown, Rich Text, and Agenda file format. However, when exporting as PDF, I was not able to export individual notes as Agenda was exporting the whole project in one big PDF file. Also, exporting in markdown is a premium feature, so if you need that, you will have to pay for the service.

Calendar, Events, and Note Links

At last, we have come to that section which you can call as the USP of the Agenda app. As I mentioned in the introduction, Agenda utilizes calendar as its base and then w

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