I’m sadly finding myself in this same situation after using Agenda as my exclusive notes app for over a year. The date-focused notes concept is brilliant and the implementation and integration with Reminders is nearly flawless.
The one issue I have is the inability to identify open tasks without manually working through individual notes and hunting them down. My working environment is one where I can collect dozens of tasks/to-dos daily. Some are delegated, others I own. All are important and need to be addressed according to priority. None can be ignored.
I had high hopes for Agenda to support note taking with inline tasks — which it has largely enabled, however using tags to flag tasks requires work … and the saved search results for tagged tasks are marginalized because searching for the tag returns the entire note instead of just the sentence/paragraph/task with the tag. This also requires added work to hunt down the task embedded in the notes.
I was also thrilled when Reminders integration was added. It eliminated the need to add a task tag; but the inability to identify incomplete tasks without manually going through notes to find them is tedious. After months of using reminders I have tons of open reminders/tasks scattered over dozens of notes. To identify these tasks I need to devote hours to scouring through notes to find them.
I purchased a subscription to Agenda because I believe in the inspired concept, and appreciate the excellent and responsive support. However, after months of banging my head against the wall to find an effective way to manage tasks in Agenda, I’m extremely disappointed and on the verge of throwing in the towel due to frustration that Agenda does not allow a search for open tasks.
And, no I do not need a dedicated task manager — I need a note taking app that supports inline, embedded tasks. This is exactly what Agenda is and does better than every other app I’ve found and tried. However, I’m perplexed that it does not allow me to easily find all open tasks across all notes without requiring me to dig through each note to find the embedded task.
Very disappointed.