I use Agenda for GTD by just adding tags, such as likely time, energy or cost, location, monthly (for the next review), or whatever, then add things to 2do as necessary. So far I’m just copy/pasting them, but the amount of great use I get out of Agenda makes that small amount on inconvenience well worthwhile 
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The biggest reason I still use Things 3 for GTD is that I have always used Things, so it has years of items to remember (like restaurants to try tagged by city). Lots of these things aren’t really ideal for Things because they kinda go away once I check them off, so an app like Agenda might be better suited for things I would like to remember but not forget. Any idea how Agenda might scale if I dumped my years of Things things into it? Is there a known upper limit for the number of notes before Agenda starts to bog down?
There’s no theoretical limit, what we do notice is that it’s important to find a balance between note length and separate notes. If you create a book-long single note it can make editing of such a note slow at the moment, and can even give some issues on iOS displaying the note due to hardware limits (we’re talking 30k lines or more). Similarly, if you put each todo item in an individual note and as such creates a project with a thousand notes, that too could get you in trouble. Dozens of projects with dozens of notes of medium size should scale just fine however.
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This discussion has changed how I plan on using this app. I saw Agenda featured in the App Store and love the design, so I gave it a go. Being new to officially trying GTD (I’ve tinkered with some aspects of it over the years), I wanted to use this app as my everything; after all, I like simplicity and using as little apps as possible. But, maybe I need a dedicated GTD app (I’m going to try Things 3) and a great note taking app (obviously Agenda).
I can’t overstate how much I appreciate the design of this app. I do think it is possible that the app can be my project manager, task list, and notebook, but I’ll patiently wait until that day.
I still have all of OmniGroup’s apps but I rarely use them nowadays. The problem was and is that they don’t work together. So you’d have OmniFocus and -Plan and they’re completely separate entities, although they’re both about planning and GTD. Then there’s OmniOutliner (my mostly used Omni app) which lets you check off things - and which was the original “OmniFocus” app - but doesn’t really communicate with OmniFocus. OmniGraffle is a totally different story. Great app!
So I now do everything - and I mean everything that’s somehow got to do with planning, GTD, storing info etc etc … in Agenda.
Oh yes. When there’s things I really have to be reminded of, I make a Reminder (which shows up in Agenda).
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The new OmniJS allows savvy JavaScript programmers to write little modules that will allow you to connect the various Omni products to each other. I think I saw a little JavaScript snippet that allowed OmniPlan to create a new OmniFocus project amongst other interesting plugins. Using JavaScript will be similar to Applescripting but it is not available on both iOS and macOS.
I’m no JavaScript programmer but I can install these JavaScript plugins and use them immediately or with just a few tweaks.
Thanks, I’ve seen that. Tried it but haven’t used it though. For my taste, it’s a bit too close to programming at the moment. Maybe it is a solution for some, but not for me, now.