Could we get a really basic Apple Watch app?

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Is there any update on this front? At least a basic Watch app on the pipeline?

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I’m afraid we haven’t made any progress on this. We have had some false starts, but in the end, decided some other projects were more important to a wider variety of users.

If you have ideas about what an Agenda watch app should do, and how it should work, please post them. One of the problems we have is that we don’t see a really big use case for a watch app in Agenda.

Eg. Putting your whole Agenda library on the watch won’t work well. It’s too big. So what do we put there? On the Agenda? Today?

By all means post a story about how you would want to use it on the watch. May give us some new insights.

(Since this thread was active, we did add widgets to the app. Perhaps a watch app could be like the widgets. Ie show a few notes that we judge to be important. Eg. ones with dates today. Ones that have been recently edited. Perhaps ones “on the agenda”. Would that be of interest?)

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Sure, so for the past 4-5 days, I adopted a new workflow.

I have one main note everyday that lists the tasks I have planned to do today and approx how much time I might take for each task. This is a checklist of tasks.

And I have time blocked activities on my Calendar (and meetings) and for each of them I create corresponding notes in advance at the beginning of the day.

My expectation from the Watch App is something like this -

On opening the app, I want to see the titles of the notes - only “Today” notes (same as the “Today” section on the main app). And I want to be able to click on each of the notes and skim through the contents. If there are checklists, I should be able to tick them off. I would also like to voice dictate from the Watch and add content to any of those notes.

I am realising even as I type this that just the content of today’s notes may potentially make the app heavy on the Watch :sweat_smile:

I understand different people use Agenda differently and have a lot of unique workflows, but at least from my perspective, the notes from “Today” makes the most sense in the Watch app.

So if I were to prioritise what I would like to see in the Watch app, it would be in this order from most important to least:

  1. Seeing the Notes that belong to “Today” (title first and probably see content on clicking on the title)
  2. Checking off tasks, if any, from each of those notes
  3. Appending more content to a note using voice.
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Thanks! Sounds a lot like what we did have in mind.

Indeed, appending is an obvious first step for editing. I do wonder how long it would be before the first customer asked why they can’t add text in the middle of the note :slight_smile:

Anyway, this has been helpful. It confirms some of the ideas we had.

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Any update here? AW Ultra with the larger screen is here.

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It’s not as high on our project list as other things, I’m afraid. Still on the list, but probably not imminent.

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Note that we did add Shortcuts support to Agenda recently, which does allow you to create shortcuts that run on your watch and should allow to push things into Agenda on your phone through the watch.

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Are your Shortcuts implemented via NSUserIntent as described in Create quick interactions with Shortcuts on watchOS - WWDC20 - Videos - Apple Developer

Or only NSUserActivity? Do intents return .continueInApp (hope not)? Is “supports background execution” checked, etc.?

Currently, I’m using Cheatsheet to view, append to and change notes I want to be able to interact with on my Apple Watch Ultra. I’d like to be able to use Agenda instead, now that I’m perpetually tied to it :sunglasses:.

Is there an API someone motivated might be able to build a WatchOS app around?

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Yes, we use NSUserIntent. Continue in app is returned where it’s relevant (like “open note”), supports background isn’t checked as we don’t running Agenda in the background at the moment for technical reasons.

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Do let me know when you might be able to support ‘runs in background’, at least on the same intents where continue in app isn’t necessary, e.g. Get Note Text, Append to Note, and similar, as those would allow shortcuts on the watch to interact with Agenda data on the phone…

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Apologies, yes, some will run the background, sync is what is not done in the background.

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Awesome. They did a bunch of improvements in this space in WatchOS 11 beta 1 and iOS 18 beta 1. This gives me a reason to learn them.

:smirk:

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Any chance there’s update on a possible watch app? Main thing I’d personally like to be able to use it for is ability to see set notes such as a note of a workout routine. And to be able to append to a specific note such as a journal note.

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+1 on this. I would love to be able to view and append notes from my watch.

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The difficulty is bringing something useful to the watch. I don’t think it would be reasonable to actually load all your agenda data on the watch, but it could copy over notes from the iPhone app, acting a bit like our widgets on iPhone.

Would you he happy to be able to choose some note from a list, like you do now with the favorites widget we offer, and have that available for reading and perhaps appending?

Perhaps we could allow the watch to manually select some notes, and just keep a small list that you can open and edit in very limited ways.

Ideas?

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I wouldn’t expect to be able to access all my notes from the watch. I would be happy to have a predefined list to choose from (maybe we could define by tagging a note with @watch? Or just On The Agenda or another saved search).

I would love to be able to quickly pull up something like a daily note and be able to append to it or be able to glance at note for an upcoming meeting without having to pull my phone out. I spend a lot of time walking / running / hiking, and it’s just more convenient to use the watch.

Thanks for considering!

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Thanks for the ideas! That’s very much along the lines we were thinking — a curated list of notes, like favorites, that you can read and append to from the watch. Good to know that’s what would work for you.

Would you expect to be able to checkoff items in a list, or is that no so important?

I think most likely would be that we make it work like the Favorite widget: you get a list of projects, and a list of notes in each project, and you can choose them to add. Once added to your watch list, they will sync up with the iPhone app.

We’ll give it some thought…

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Being able to check off items would be a bonus, but for me personally it’s more about capture without having to take my phone out.

Thanks!

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I like that idea. For me for example I have a training routine note with my different workouts for the week and i like to be able to open while I am working out. If possible would like to be able to be able to create a dictation note that would allow me to jot down the weights I did for the day.

In other use case could the watch app just show a specified project? like for example a fitness project is displayed then I could click on and append to or dictate a new note of the workouts I did on a certain day.