Improved PDF Embedding & Usage

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Hi Agenda-Team,

I’m working with big PDFs at the moment within Agenda and have two wishes / requests to improve handling:

  1. Better Embedding: At the moment I can only embedd the big PDFs with a short title and a symbol next to it. I would love to have the PDF visible without going into Preview or Commenting, ideally even be able to scroll through it (perhaps similar to what Apple Notes does).
  2. Remember Page for Commenting / Previewing: I have a 122 Page PDF at the moment, that I work with within Agenda, commenting and previewing. Its quite tedious to always having to scroll to the page I was before when going back into commenting.

For me personally the second one would be priority and really a game changer, the first one would be just awesome to have :smiley:

Best regards,
Tobi

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I just wanted to add this as a note…
Over time, as the amount of data grows, it can become a problem if a lot of PDF files and image attachments accumulate in Agenda. Agenda can sometimes become very sluggish, which isn’t exactly pleasant. It might still work, but Agenda isn’t really designed for that.
As far as I understand, deleting large attachments later on doesn’t necessarily solve the problem.
At least that’s been my experience, and I’ve already significantly reduced the number of new attachments. Now I try as often as possible to link to the PDF files and leave them in the cloud.
Most of us still take advantage of the freedom Agenda gives us to do this anyway, simply out of habit. :wink:

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Thanks for the suggestions, Tobi.

  1. Inline PDF preview is something we have heard before and is on our list to look at. Scrolling through a PDF directly in the note (like Apple Notes does) is the obvious win. No fixed timeline, but we agree it would be a nice improvement.

  2. Remembering the last viewed page in QuickLook / commenting is a smaller, more contained change and probably easier to get in. I will add it to the list. Just not sure how much control we have over QuickLook to do it.

On the point about large attachments: it is right that performance can suffer when notes accumulate many large PDFs or images. In general, splitting them over notes and projects helps this a lot.

Drew

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