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CRIMPing alert: new app looks fascinating!
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 21, 2017 at 08:20 PM
Oh dear, I recently received an extraordinarily tantalising e-mailer from a company I’d never heard of before.
They’ve been busily developing an app that appears to be a kind of notes/journal/diary/task management thingy. For macOS only, I’m afraid (at least, for the moment).
And they teased the app with such an excruciatingly good presentation (visit https://agenda.com to see it) that of course I immediately signed up for the beta. Which is pretty well advanced, by the way. The download link came this evening.
And of course, being me, I’m instantly hooked! It’s reminiscent of an alas, now defunct app the name of which I can’t currently remember, but which stood out by virtue of automatically interconnecting related notes (they later removed this feature from the iOS version). Anyway, it interconnects, or allows you to interconnect, pretty much everything. It’s very elegant (nowadays a vital feature, I feel), and really looks very nicely put together. It “folds” notes, allows you to move them onto or off your agenda (hence the name, Agenda), and if you purchase the full version (cunningly, it doesn’t offer too many extra features; Agenda is perfectly usable in its free form), you can also link it to Calendar etc. It supports tags, people, and so on. There’s clearly a lot more on the roadmap.
So I’ve already had a little play…
... and it’s such fun! Oh dear.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 21, 2017 at 11:43 PM
Great alert, Bill. I’ve signed up for the beta test too and already have Agenda fired up on my Mac. Initial reaction is like yours. Great concept. Nice UI. There’s nothing else exactly like it in my experience. Looking forward to continuing to test it. Thanks for the notice.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Dec 22, 2017 at 08:42 AM
Thanks, Bill. (In passing, I wonder if the developers realise that they’ve adopted a name that was once well-regarded amongst application purchasers - well at least this application purchaser. Lotus Agenda was the first application I personally bought - Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Notes were bought for me by an employer. In retrospect, although at the time it seemed like magic, it was probably a clever application looking for a purpose.)
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 22, 2017 at 09:52 AM
Ha, yes, good point - I’d forgotten about Lotus Agenda. Rather a nice piece of software, back in the day!
I remember spending endless hours trying to tame Lotus Notes (in some ways very much ahead of its time), only to give up in total frustration. Probably an early influence on my subsequent CRIMPing behaviour…
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 22, 2017 at 11:49 AM
I agree, it is a pretty nifty. It’s basically a redo of Eduard Metzger’s NotePlan, which Eduard has written about many times on this forum. So far, Agenda adds nothing significant to NotePlan’s feature set, and there’s no Agenda iOS app yet. Agenda’s UI is more “Things-like”, which is important.
I was surprised that to use all the features in the beta, I had to pay $17.99 to “unlock” the pro version. I’ve read that others did not have that experience—so maybe there is some A/B testing going on: some testers pay, others don’t.