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Posted by Hugh
Jul 18, 2018 at 01:18 PM
I like what I’ve seen of Agenda. But two omissions from its feature set would discourage me from using it as a writer’s log: an iOS app (I increasingly write on my iPad), and tables with simple arithmetic (writer’s logs may not be all about word counts, but word counts are still the best metric of productivity and progress for many projects).
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 18, 2018 at 01:38 PM
Hugh,
The developers have introduced an iOS app and it is very elegantly conceived (may still have a few bugs).
Steve
Hugh wrote:
I like what I’ve seen of Agenda. But two omissions from its feature set
>would discourage me from using it as a writer’s log: an iOS app (I
>increasingly write on my iPad), and tables with simple arithmetic
>(writer’s logs may not be all about word counts, but word counts are
>still the best metric of productivity and progress for many projects).
Posted by Hugh
Jul 18, 2018 at 02:05 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Hugh,
>
>The developers have introduced an iOS app and it is very elegantly
>conceived (may still have a few bugs).
>
>Steve
>
>Hugh wrote:
>I like what I’ve seen of Agenda. But two omissions from its feature set
>>would discourage me from using it as a writer’s log: an iOS app (I
>>increasingly write on my iPad), and tables with simple arithmetic
>>(writer’s logs may not be all about word counts, but word counts are
>>still the best metric of productivity and progress for many projects).
Thanks, Steve. My error.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 18, 2018 at 02:46 PM
Developers Charles Parnot (Findings) and Drew McCormack (Agenda) have discussed their collaboration in their respective forums. I understand there is some shared code in the two apps.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
That’s a great suggestion, Paul.
>
>As an aside—or maybe it isn’t—one of the developers, I believe,
>also worked on Findings.
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>Perhaps Agenda would serve well as a writer’s log? Entries can be
>>grouped in categories and projects, linked to calendars and dates,
>>linked to other entries, tagged, assigned to “persons” (i.e., any sort
>>of entity), grouped in saved searches, etc., contain checklists, and
>>exported anywhere.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 18, 2018 at 02:49 PM
As Steve mentioned, the iOS app is there. From reading the drift in Agenda’s forum, I doubt dynamic variables will show up any time soon—but I believe markdown tables are on the horizon. (Agenda’s “On the Horizon” list is sort of like seeing Russia from Wassila—one never knows what’s really going on over there). You can link to an external Numbers or Excel or Numi or other file in the context of note in Agenda.
Hugh wrote:
I like what I’ve seen of Agenda. But two omissions from its feature set
>would discourage me from using it as a writer’s log: an iOS app (I
>increasingly write on my iPad), and tables with simple arithmetic
>(writer’s logs may not be all about word counts, but word counts are
>still the best metric of productivity and progress for many projects).