Agenda: Notes meets Calendar

Name: Agenda: Notes meets Calendar
Rating: 4.6 (3648 reviews)
Author: Momenta B.V.

Project notes on a timeline

Free · In‑App Purchases

3.6K Ratings
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Editors’ Choice

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9+
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Productivity
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Momenta B.V.
Language

EN
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Your notes, on a timeline. Apple Design Award winner that connects notes to your calendar. Meeting prep, project plans, and decisions stay tied to when they happen. Most notes apps lose track of time. You write something, it disappears into a folder, and a week later you can't remember why you made that decision or what you prepared for that meeting. Agenda fixes this. Every note lives on a timeline alongside your calendar. Prepare for next week's client meeting, capture decisions as they happen, and look back at exactly what led you here — all in one view. "It's my favorite new app in years." — John Gruber, daringfireball.net "Every notes app should work like Agenda." — Khoi Vinh, subtraction.com "One of the most interesting note-taking apps I've used." — John Voorhees, MacStories YOUR NOTES, CONNECTED TO YOUR CALENDAR Attach any note to a date or link it directly to a calendar event. Mark notes as "On the Agenda" to surface them in a dedicated overview — your shortlist of what matters right now. A REAL TEXT EDITOR Headings, lists, tables, checklists, indented blocks, and preformatted text — with the simplicity of plain text input. Focus on what you're writing; Agenda handles how it looks. FILES, PHOTOS, AND LINKS Attach files and images to any note. Everything syncs across your devices and can be previewed inline. PROJECTS AND CATEGORIES Group notes into projects, group projects into categories. Drag to reorder, collapse to focus, or let the timeline do the organizing for you. MAC, IPAD, AND IPHONE Agenda syncs across all your devices via iCloud or Dropbox. Share individual notes for real-time collaboration — useful for team meetings or shared lists. FREE TO USE, FOREVER Agenda is free with no time limits. Premium features are available through a yearly subscription — and you keep every feature you unlock, even if you cancel. A one-time lifetime purchase is also available.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

3.6K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Agenda is a note-taking app that stands out thanks to its clever use of time. To improve the odds you’ll actually refer back to your notes one day, you can attach a specific date to each note you create, tie a note to an event already on your calendar, or organize your notes on a timeline—that way it’s easy to tap through to a specific date and find the note you created.

Editors’ Choice

Agenda is a note-taking app that stands out thanks to its clever use of time. To improve the odds you’ll actually refer back to your notes one day, you can attach a specific date to each note you create, tie a note to an event already on your calendar, or organize your notes on a timeline—that way it’s easy to tap through to a specific date and find the note you created.
Incredible
06/05/2018

dhakert
Delete Bear, Todoist, Ulysses and any other "free” subscription-based apps that you have to pay monthly for. Agenda effectively ties organization, scheduling, and note-taking/short-form writing apps together for an awesome multi-platform (macOS/iOS) experience. I first downloaded it two months ago and have used it every day since for work and life (wish I had this back while I was still in law school). One of the best aspects of Agenda is the full-featured version (which is totally optional) is unlocked for a reasonable one-time fee. But even compared to other *more expensive* highly-acclaimed, one-time purchase apps (e.g., Things 3, Fantastical 2), I still prefer Agenda for practically everything. The Agenda interface seems more effective for my simple tasks, and more intuitive for more difficult ones. One notable example of this is the “Share” menu, which includes default options like “Send by Email”; ”Send with Messages”; ”AirDrop”; “Add to Notes”; and “Create Reminder,” as well as more personalized (yet automatically configured) options allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pocket, Evernote, MailMate, EagleFiler, and Simulator. Hovering over one of these sharing options presents an additional menu that allows you to choose the format, including standard formats, i.e., Notes, PDF, Markdown, as well as Agenda specific options, i.e., Agenda File, Agenda Link. Given the time it takes, I have written very few App Store reviews—and will only do so for apps that I am extremely impressed with, or extremely disappointed with. For an app like Agenda that has enhanced my life to the degree it has, however, writing a positive review to spread the word is the very least I would do.
Incredible
06/05/2018

dhakert

Delete Bear, Todoist, Ulysses and any other "free” subscription-based apps that you have to pay monthly for. Agenda effectively ties organization, scheduling, and note-taking/short-form writing apps together for an awesome multi-platform (macOS/iOS) experience. I first downloaded it two months ago and have used it every day since for work and life (wish I had this back while I was still in law school). One of the best aspects of Agenda is the full-featured version (which is totally optional) is unlocked for a reasonable one-time fee. But even compared to other *more expensive* highly-acclaimed, one-time purchase apps (e.g., Things 3, Fantastical 2), I still prefer Agenda for practically everything. The Agenda interface seems more effective for my simple tasks, and more intuitive for more difficult ones. One notable example of this is the “Share” menu, which includes default options like “Send by Email”; ”Send with Messages”; ”AirDrop”; “Add to Notes”; and “Create Reminder,” as well as more personalized (yet automatically configured) options allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pocket, Evernote, MailMate, EagleFiler, and Simulator. Hovering over one of these sharing options presents an additional menu that allows you to choose the format, including standard formats, i.e., Notes, PDF, Markdown, as well as Agenda specific options, i.e., Agenda File, Agenda Link. Given the time it takes, I have written very few App Store reviews—and will only do so for apps that I am extremely impressed with, or extremely disappointed with. For an app like Agenda that has enhanced my life to the degree it has, however, writing a positive review to spread the word is the very least I would do.
Seriously lacking a key functionality
01/22/2025

v from midlo
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.

Developer Response
Frankly, I would not call project templates “key functionality”. I would estimate probably less than 5% of our customers would have much interest in it. I understand that if it is a feature you yourself would like, it is frustrating, but we have to choose between many projects, and decide what to tackle next.We introduced the app in 2018. Within about a month we had heard virtually all possible feature requests — all of them. It is rare now that we hear a new request.Each year we choose a bunch to implement, and so it goes. That is how every software company works. It is simply not the case that building a feature is as easy as asking for it.The good news is that now that templates are setup, we are thinking about how to make groups of them, so you could make a new project. This is a continuous process. First we needed to be able to make note templates. Now we can build on that to see if we can offer some grouping options.
Seriously lacking a key functionality
01/22/2025

v from midlo

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.
Developer Response 06/26/2022
Frankly, I would not call project templates “key functionality”. I would estimate probably less than 5% of our customers would have much interest in it. I understand that if it is a feature you yourself would like, it is frustrating, but we have to choose between many projects, and decide what to tackle next.We introduced the app in 2018. Within about a month we had heard virtually all possible feature requests — all of them. It is rare now that we hear a new request.Each year we choose a bunch to implement, and so it goes. That is how every software company works. It is simply not the case that building a feature is as easy as asking for it.The good news is that now that templates are setup, we are thinking about how to make groups of them, so you could make a new project. This is a continuous process. First we needed to be able to make note templates. Now we can build on that to see if we can offer some grouping options.
Exactly what I was looking for
01/06/2025

DevonFill66
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).
Exactly what I was looking for
01/06/2025

DevonFill66

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).

IMPROVED - Added three-mode paragraph filter: All Content, Include Selected, and Exclude Selected - Letter and roman numeral numbering support for numbered lists - Copy As Markdown now produces valid markdown tables - Improved paste handling: prefer HTML over RTF when pasting from external apps - Improved highlight keyboard shortcut and increased highlight visibility - Improved Touch ID unlock and privacy authentication - Dismiss popovers and sheets when the app privacy lock is applied - Added Ask Agenda to Help > How To menu FIXED - Fixed search field corrupting text when typing tags or people quickly - Fixed mail links broken after TextBundle import - Fixed image aspect ratio issues in display and copy/paste export - Fixed iPad center panel position after size changes - Fixed some notes not appearing correctly in Spotlight search results

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