I’ve said before that Drew and I are very similar. Task oriented things get done (for me) in Todoist. Planning, chronicling in Agenda. Agenda has become my rolling strategic thought journal for personal things, and a Goal-Strategic Planning vehicle for business and projects. At that level, a more robust hierarchy might be valuable, rather than just having “Category” and “Project” though one could work around this.
One thing that Agenda has revolutionized is the way I think of productivity systems (I think Drew elegantly stated this). I used to think that you had 4 parts to a personal organization system: Email, Task Management, Calendar and a Reference system (personal database of “stuff”). So you tried to get a best of breed, feature-rich, cross-platform solution for these such as Outlook for Mail (ick), Omnifocus, Google Calendar and Evernote for instance. While almost all the features of Agenda were available in Evernote, it was the presentation and UI and force a really radical change away from that 4 program approach for me. Now, I think top-down. Agenda is at the top in how I THINK about various aspects of personal and business life. Then, yes some things need to get off loaded to my task manaement system (Todoist). I have quit using a Calendar altogether. I still am using Evernote for “reference” because images, scans and other free-form database things are better handled by Evernote right now.
One thing that I haven’t really seen addressed much in the forum is Collaboration capability. I can, of course share a note with someone by using the Share menu and drop an email or message. This is good. Another workflow that works for me at the moment, is to select a Note, go to the Share menu and click the Add to Todoist option, which automatically opens a Todoist Add with the title of the Note being the Task to be done. However, there is a bug in what Agenda sends as the date. For some reason, it puts March 1, 2019 instead of the selected date. But even so, I still have to go to that task, add the collaboration requirement to the people I want to be there. Also, Agenda does not pass the context of the note into the comment for the task. Because we use Asana as a global task management tool at present, there’s even an extra layer here that has to be managed, too.
All of this is why I, as a user and early-adopter of Agenda, really am hoping that the development team doesn’t lose focus on its vision. Agenda shouldn’t include deep functionality for task management such as conflict checking or major sort/search criteria and tracking of milestones. Leave that to Omnifocus, Todoist or whatever tool that’s out there and being enhanced. However, building more “best-of-breed” integrations at the OS X level as well as the iOS level (and WatchOS) is paramount.