Agenda is a well-crafted note-taking app that stands out for its integration with scheduling features. While I don’t use it heavily in its current form, I greatly value two of its core strengths:
- The strong association between notes and specific dates.
- The card-style layout that enhances readability.
As a project manager juggling multiple large-scale projects simultaneously, I often find myself managing a complex stream of ongoing issues rather than simple one-off tasks. These issues span extended periods and involve various intertwined details.
To better support this kind of use case, I would love to see the following improvements:
- Timeline View: A timeline-based feature that allows users to track the evolution of a particular issue over time through note entries. This would provide a clearer, more intuitive view of how events unfold.
- Cross-Project Gantt-Like display: A visualization tool similar to a Gantt chart that displays note cards across multiple projects. This would allow users to see the progression of different tasks in parallel, improving cross-project clarity and planning.
Are there any plugins or roadmap plans for such features? Would love to hear from fellow users or the dev team.
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There are no plugins or shortcuts that I am aware of.
Honestly, you may be better using Agenda together with an app like OmniProject. Perhaps you can link back and forth, or embed files in Agenda with important info.
I think to turn Agenda into more of a project management tool would hurt its focus on note taking. But I appreciate the feedback. Thanks!
What Drew describs is exactly how I deal with that use case. I work with project management tool Merlin for planning and tracking work and resources and Agenda for complexer note taking, research etc. related to my projects. Both apps support links to arbitrary items, so it’s really easy to interconnect them and leverage their individual powers together.
Thank you very much for your quick reply. It seems my original intention may not have come across clearly. I apologize—my English isn’t very good, and I used AI to help translate my message, which might not have fully conveyed what I meant.
In my usage, I label the actual project names under the “Category Name” field, while the “Project Name” field is where I put the specific task or todo item within that project.
As shown in the screenshot, I often have to manage more than five projects at the same time, and each project typically involves around five tasks that require ongoing follow-up.
These tasks usually span a long period of time before they’re fully resolved. For example:
- Jan 1 — Task A started, details xxxx
- Jan 5 — Unexpected issue with Task A, details xxxx
- Jan 8 — After executive review, shift toward Plan B, details xxxx
- Jan 9 — Coordinated with vendor to move forward with Plan B
- Jan 11 — Vendor raised a delay risk, held a meeting to discuss details xxxx
- Jan 12 — Further executive direction
- Jan 13 — Goods prepared, packaging scheduled in 3 days
- Jan 13 — Pre-packaging inspection arranged at factory, details xxxx…and so on.
I usually have to keep track of more than 25 such threads at once. While tools like Todoist help me stay on top of what needs to be done now, they don’t help me recall the full history behind a particular issue.
So when a boss suddenly asks, “Why did we make this decision back in March regarding that issue?”, I struggle to recall the background quickly.
Agenda is great because it helps fulfill that need to track the full history. However, as the number of notes (cards) grows, it becomes hard to navigate—scrolling up and down takes a lot of time.
That’s why I’m wondering:
Would it be possible to introduce a more visual and intuitive timeline view to show the chronological flow of notes more clearly
