Agenda as repository for all notes

[trebso]

@salvai

Agenda could perhaps solve all this if it just had an Inbox!

I’ve set up a project called ‘Inbox’ but I find I rarely use it as it’s just as easy to put notes in the relevant project right away.

What would really work for me, is the ability to ’send’ text, files, emails etc from other applications directly to the Inbox - in the same way that Things offers.

I’m using it a repository of all my notes and for drafts. I don’t see any problem with that for me at the moment. It’s easy enough to create a category for notes that don’t belong to an actual project.

I use Quip, Google Drive and Asana for collaboration with different groups of people - and where necessary I’ve added links to the relevant documents to my notes in Agenda. This seems to work so far in giving me one place - Agenda - to have an overview of what I’m doing now and next, and giving me a direct route to the relevant webpages/documents.

Regarding Agenda’s philosophy, I found this - “the tools to make your system” - very reassuring:

Colour coding of Due Dates

Where I see Agenda going is stronger search, combined with paragraph level search results. With those two things, you could build any system you want. You can have a tag “#onagenda”, and make a saved search for those paragraphs. You could apply due date to paragraphs, and create a search for those due in two days time. That would be an upcoming tasks. In other words, I don’t think we want to turn Agenda into a particular system, but we want to give you the tools to make your system.