I work as a learning designer. Currently I have about 16 courses in paralleled development with the subject matter experts. I use Agenda to record and log progress in each course. My current organization looks like the following screenshot
I use Projects to to create a list for courses within the same Code range (PATH1000s, PATH2000s), and for the individual note, I give them a prefix like “PATH1224 | “ to identify which course a note belongs to. However, I’ve already found this to be overloading, and even with the new filtering function, it still looks pretty much messy. I also tried the method to create 1 project for each course, but that makes a very tall and messy Sidebar lists of projects. I’d like to hear from you guys if you have any suggestions on this particular user case?
I think if it was me, I would make one course = one project, and use subcategories to group related courses. I guess each not in the projects would be one lecture or whatever the unit of study is.
I think that would be the most logical grouping, but it’s up to how you work a bit.
I also think that without subcategories, you won’t be able to get the chaos on the left side under control.
The overview in the middle can also be organized a little better using the smart overviews. For example, I would like to see only the PATH1225 course. This can be organized using tags such as #PATH1225 and saved searches. Or if you only want to see an overview of the current week, this can also be quickly accessed via the smart overviews.
This definitely reduces the chaos in the middle and you only see the notes you want to see. It always depends on what is relevant to you at the time.
Of course, the list in the smart overviews can quickly become too large, so only save the most important items here.
