Where is the PDF? If it is on your Mac, it should open Finder and show you the file. Agenda is not allowed to open the file directly due to macOS security restrictions.
PDF import is a high priority, and will be addressed when the iOS app is done.
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With the release of the ios vision this is even more of a priority. I use notes plus and notability both of which I save as a pdf. These are automatically synced onto my Mac through icloud. I then drag them into agenda. I can export pdfs directly from notability and notes plus to a number of apps on my iPad but not agenda. Fixing that would be great as I take most of my notes with a pen not the keyboard.
Cheers
David
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Yes, with the iOS app out, this is now our highest priority.
Drew
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That’s great news - thanks.
David
I tried to drag and drop a PDF file from Finder (and PDF Viewer as well) on my iPad Pro (iOS 11) into a (Agenda) note but nothing happens. Should it insert a link to the file ?
Matthieu
We don’t support this yet on iOS as on iOS there’s not user visible file system.
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It would be great if PDF’s could be previewed in a similar way to Evernote.
What is the current status of this feature request? This is the only thing keeping me from completely switching to Agenda 
There is no mention of PDF annotation on the post that you shared with the features you guys are working on. Does that mean this is not so etching you guys are planning to add?
This would be an essential feature to have to avoid having to live so much outside of Agenda. It especially complicates things while I am working on my iPad Andi want to annotate PDFs I have added.
From the link above:
Annotation is something we’d like to look into, but in all fairness, it won’t be in the short term, and it’s also not our goal to turn Agenda into a full featured PDF annotation tool. We do however want to make it easier to edit attachments in external apps, which would be a good alternative here.
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It will be great if Search results also searches in the imported PDF content (if it is not already done)?
Searching in attachments would indeed something nice to add, thanks for the feedback.
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PLEASE make this optional.
Sorry to be dramatic – but searching note content only is one thing I really appreciate about Agenda. It allows me to be clear about my stuff (note content) vs other people’s stuff (attachment content).
I agree I would like to search attachment content too at times, but the current behavior is important to me.
PLEASE make this optional.
Yes, definitely.
Just echoing the request for indexing file attachments. I actually haven’t been using Agenda since a few weeks after I bought in, but this feature could bring me back.
The concept of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) seems to be gaining traction lately, and as the below discussion over on Mac Power Users (and the link that inspired it) shows, the market for PKM apps is quite divided.
https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/a-comparative-chart-of-modern-notes-apps/14954?u=ryanjamurphy
I think Agenda’s extremely well-positioned to take up a lot of space in that market, as it fulfills a lot of the features people look for. (See this list of “requirements” from one of the biggest proponents of so-called “Second Brain” systems, for example.) The main—or only—lacking feature is indexed attachments!
Congrats to the team on what must be a blistering development pace and happy almost-new year!
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Indexing attachments would be a nice feature, but a PKM fits better with apps like DevonThink. Agenda is not ideal for that purpose; it is more focussed on projects, and a time line of notes, rather than a database of all your stuff.
We will consider adding the indexing. Still useful for search etc.
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I get that. I am curious about what weaknesses Agenda has that would make you suggest avoiding it for this purpose, though.
I am an avid user and advocate of DEVONthink. Problem is that the iOS version hasn’t been keeping up with other apps (like Agenda)! DEVONthink To Go doesn’t have feature parity with the desktop DEVONthink. The interface is also lacking, especially when you want to write notes within the app.
For many, PKM apps are synonymous with note-taking apps—the latter term definitely describing Agenda.
Obviously I can’t really argue with the team! Just doing some armchair analysis… I think adding indexing and doing a bit of marketing in that direction and Agenda will be added to these lists of “PKM” apps as a great alternative.
I think what @drewmccormack is trying to say is that the goal of Agenda is not to become a full-on competitor/replacement for Devonthink, which has a more database-of-all-your-stuff approach. Those apps are often a mix of files and notes, where they are at the same level in terms of hierarchy.
Instead we focus more on the note-taking part where notes can have attachments but attachments can’t be standalone for example. In that sense files are by definition lower in rank than in typical PKM apps perhaps. Agenda can work as a PKM but you’d often use it in combination with files on disk in dropbox, Finder, etc. Or with other apps, for instance like @heyscottyj just talked about in his Nested Folders podcast: Podcast: Actions vs. Reference - Nested Folders Episode 12 - #3 by RosemaryOrchard
So perhaps it’s a matter of definition of what exactly is a PKM, if you think a Devonthink replacement, then Agenda will probably not sway you over, if you see it as a note-taking app, then yes, it certainly can be. And at least for me personally, Agenda is indeed my “Personal Knowledge Management” app, but then again, I have all my files in Dropbox and am not a Devonthink user for example.
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Right. Totally makes sense. There’s dozens of ways of making this work depending on personal preference.
As it happens, Tiago uses Evernote as the “core” PKM app, which also does the attachments-inside-notes bit.
And yes, linking back and forth between apps is a good workaround. My worry is that it’ll dismantle Search efficacy over time. I’d rather not maintain a mental map of which apps hold which items in order to effectively (re)discover relevant items. Keeping every file and note in one app’s search index is the dream.
Merry Christmas!
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