Agenda: Notes meets Calendar

UDATE: Nothing like a dev telling a PAID customer that what they want is not important. I am avoiding this DEV FOR GOOD. TOO ARROGANT. END UPDATE: This app needs templates for projects. It has templates for notes which for me is useless but templates for projects would be priceless. The first request for this functionality on the devs website for Agenda was in 2018 and several others followed. All such requests have been commented on by several users stating how much they desire this functionality. Based on how nice this app looks & functions (this one critical issue aside), I doubt that it can’t be done and I don’t understand why it hasn’t with so many requests. This app is not cheap. I use it for several tasks but one is for planning woodworking projects. I have a project I would like to use as a template as I have notes within it that apply to all of my woodworking projects (Materials, cut list, joinery by part, machining by part, assembly instructions/order). For each project, each note is different (thus a template for notes to me is useless) but I need the same notes in each project (thus the need for templates for projects). I understand not all requests for update can be done or are feasible (I think this can be done and is feasible) but what is frustrating is the number of customers requesting the functionality and it not being implemented in the 4+ years since it was first requested.

I’ve played a lot of video games, particularly RPG’s, and wanted something similar to the typical “Journal” feature that tracks quests and their various stages and whatnot, often with explanatory notes attached. At first I wasn’t sure if this app was what I was looking for, but it was exactly. Maybe that’s not the intention, but it fits the bill exceedingly well. This is the only app I’ve ever written a review for, so that says something I hope. When I was setting up my notes and projects, I thought to myself that it was a little inconvenient that I couldn’t see everything at once, then I clicked on the overview and saw everything at once. I’m not a big time white collar worker, nor do I own a business or something, I just use this to be a bit more organized. Speaking as someone who doesn’t have the same kind of responsibility typical of the users of this kind of app, it’s been exactly what I’m looking for (this is without premium too).

Overall, I’m thrilled to have this app!!!!!! Nothing else is like it exists (linking note taking to calendar events) and it’s an indispensable for keeping my work organized. I am more than happy to pay for this application and I love not being forced into subscription pricing!! That said, I hope the iOS version eventually gets to the same level of polish as the Mac version.... The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because text entry on iOS is frustratingly inferior to the Mac version of Agenda. For example, I am constantly recorrecting style assignments that render incorrectly or seem to change on their own, and simple things like setting my text insertion point at the end of a line (using touch) is crazy hard. I fear these iOS shortcoming are so fundamental that they threaten Agenda’s long-term survival. If I hadn’t tried the Mac version first and experienced what the developers were capable of, I would have given up on the iOS version by now over text manipulation and rendering problems. Because I mainly live on an iPad, I hope I don’t have to suffer this silliness much longer.