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Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 6, 2022 at 06:34 PM
Sorry, Steve, I was thinking laterally there – I shouldn’t have implied that Lattics was comparable with Agenda, it was just the interface issue/comparison that intrigued me.
Following your/@tberni’s input, I’ve just been playing with Agenda again – I was subscribed until a couple of years ago. Hm. No, still really, really irritates me for various reasons, although I appreciate that I’m no longer working with the most up-to-date version (mine dates from early 2020; to their credit, you keep all the features you paid for).
Even the windows thing I can forgive. What I find really surprising is that you can’t use Agenda for time blocking (or not easily, i.e. by dragging and dropping tasks onto a timeline). Unless that’s been introduced in the meantime and I haven’t discovered it? Given the app’s layout, it’s such an obvious feature – surely?
But go on, tell me I’m wrong!
Cheers!
Bill
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Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Bill,
>
>Thanks for the reference to Lattics. Very interesting looking app. While
>I get your objection to Agenda, to my mind Lattics is a very different
>animal. I want to use Agenda for managing projects. Whereas, Lattics
>looks like it would be an excellent way to craft long-form articles or
>even books.
>
>The appeal of Agenda for me is, to some extent, its limitations. I won’t
>be tempted to try to stash all my notes in it. It is the perfect way to
>track and record healthcare, for instance. And for planning a vacation.
>Even the fact that it is Apple-only is an advantage for me, since I
>won’t be tempted to combine my work (which is Windows-PC based) with my
>personal.
>
>(In the middle of writing this response, I decided I had to download and
>try Lattics. CRIMP in action.)
>
>Steve
>
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>Interesting to hear.
>>
>>My biggest question remains, however: does Agenda allow you to work in
>>multiple windows?
>>
>>And the short answer is still: no.
>>
>>I’ve just been experimenting with another interesting app that uses a
>>single-window workspace, Lattics – a knowledge-management app.
>Its
>>strengths over Agenda: it has multiple panes, including a “cards” pane
>>(cards can be any size you like, and you can embed them in your main
>>notes as footnotes, body copy or references), and it lets you divide
>the
>>main note pane into two (either horizontally or vertically) and then
>>display either different parts of the same note in each half-pane, or
>>two separate notes.
>>
>>It’s also a very elegant app (although I notice that the export options
>>don’t include footnotes, despite a checkbox option promising to do so).
>>More on https://lattics.zineapi.com
>>
>>Sadly, it’s macOS only for the time being.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>Bill
Posted by tberni
Apr 6, 2022 at 07:56 PM
Well, Bill: I get the impression that you are using a version of Agenda that is more than two years old. Is that true? If the answer is yes, you can upgrade to the latest version, and you won’t lose any of the premium capabilities you purchased at the time. You will also gain a whole series of enhancements that are inherent to all later versions and are not subject to the pro version. For example: the export to textbundle format in version 14 is an open upgrade, as well as improvements in the use of tags (these improvements do not require the annual premium upgrade).
If all the above assumptions are correct, you may find that you have a new user experience with Agenda.
It is true that Agenda has its limitations, but from my point of view it is a good application for chronological tracking of project notes.
By the way: I have also downloaded Lattics, and I am giving it a review.
Posted by satis
Apr 20, 2022 at 09:19 AM
FYI a purchase of an unlocked Agenda license with one year of included updates is now $9.99 (down from $35) via a Stacksocial deal ending 4/24
https://stacksocial.com/sales/agenda-premium-14
If you’re new to Stacksocial you can get an extra 10% off when signing up for their newsletter.
Posted by satis
Apr 26, 2022 at 08:48 PM
FYI I took advantage of that $9.99 Premium unlock and have been playing with the app. Very much in the vein of Noteplan.
I wanted to give praise to the app’s Discourse discussion forum at https://agenda.community/ and especially the How To section with subsections on all the app’s features.
https://agenda.community/c/how-to/
I wish the app had better onboarding but this how-to section is quite useful.
Unfortunately, people have apparently asked since at least 2018 for ‘foldable outlines’ without seeing any hint of it being forthcoming, and a few days ago the dev (or dev rep) wrote that outline functionality is “not something we see adding in the next few updates.”
Even without outlines it’s still a really nice app, and I’m investigating it as one of several possible replacements for Day One. The features roadmap they’re currently working on are here.
https://agenda.community/t/the-features-we-are-working-on-right-now/
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 27, 2022 at 02:41 PM
And of course you *can* fold notes, but only from the title – and it’s certainly not as easy as it should be (currently you have to use the context menu; once a note title is folded, a more or less intuitive “minus” sign appears which you can click to unfold the following note. Why they can’t put a “plus” sign next to the header for folding purposes, I really don’t know).