I used Agenda a couple of years ago and ended up using Notion.
I’m looking to restart with agenda and with a premium subscription but not sure how active the project is anymore.
Youtube updates seem to have stopped, and the How to YouTube video promoted as the get started is 5 years old so likely doesn’t cover any updates in the past 5 years.
So I guess my question is twofold
Is this project still active
Is the simple elegance of this app something that just doesn’t need consistent updates or an updated Getting Started Series on YT
Don’t get me wrong I love the concept of this app but don’t want to get fully invested and find that its a bit stalled and as you still promote your YouTube channel heavily but there is nothing much for the past couple of years it did make me pause my decision.
Not only it is active but versions are succeeding and I don’t have time to test and assimilate all the new features. They are doing a great job and it is getting better and better!
Thanks for checking in, and for the kind words about the app. Agenda is very much in active development. We put out around three major releases a year. The most recent, Agenda 23, shipped in May, and added an Apple Watch app, Apple Contacts integration, a Safari web clipper, and Send to Agenda, which lets you email notes into the app. We are now working toward the September release cycle, which will include a big update to support Siri and new features in macOS 27/iOS 27.
You are right about the YouTube channel, though. We are a small team, and in the last couple of years most of our energy has gone into the app itself rather than video. The best places to see what is new are the release notes in the app, and the How To section here on the community, which we do keep up to date.
Glad to help. Hope you enjoy getting back into Agenda!
We will see if we can get some form of launch videos going again. Probably won’t be the same complexity as the old ones, but something that gives you the idea in a few minutes.
I was just about to write the exact same comment! I’m considering going back to Agenda, but their last YouTube video is over a year old now, and I would love to see a new video covering all the updates they’ve been making. I’m currently using Things 3, but I still have a love-hate relationship with Agenda—I’ve been subscribing on and off since the very beginning and last 5 updates are already off my plan. Currently using Elements from Rapidweaver and evenm small team, their support and videos covering basic is fantastic and I believe the right way to aproach new users, I hope Agenda team will reconsider making even short vido updates and if possible more use cases examples.
I’m a huge fan of Agenda and I love the powerful recent new features, and syncing between iOS and macOS. However I agree with the OP; without an up-to-date manual or videos I often struggle to get the best out of Agenda for my workflow.
On the manual, that is fair. The How To section here on the community is the closest thing we have to an up to date manual, and we do keep it current, but it is organised as separate articles rather than as something you can read start to finish, so it is easier to use when you already know what you are looking for than when you are trying to get an overview.
I will see if I can compile the HowTos into some single manual. Should be doable.
I can’t promise a full video series, we are a small team and the app itself has to come first. But shorter videos covering what is new in a release, and a few real workflows, is the direction I have in mind, and it is clearly what people are asking for here.
If I haven’t mentioned it before, the release notes have become so much more thorough and detailed over the last year+ which is appreciated, as is the rapid march up feature road. I find more value in the notes overview, purpose, objective, details, example, nuances and interactions than in videos but for new users I can see the video being helpful to better understand the concept of the app and different ways the pieces can fit together. If there are time constraints, perhaps videos only on major updates/additions.
Glad it is already proving useful. That is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping it would help with.
Bruce, thanks, that is useful to hear on the release notes as well. Point taken on the videos, keeping them for the bigger updates sounds like the sensible balance.
Thank you so much for this manual Drew. I’m a user who doesn’t use Agenda all day, every day, yet it has still become the place where I record and cross-reference all kinds of lists and records. Clearly I’ve missed several past release notes, and from skim-reading this manual I can see so many useful features (e.g. AI Assistant, Text Actions, Templates, Shortcuts) that might have been in previous versions but I’d missed them when they could be really powerful for me,
I’ve realised that I must make time to read this manual because Agenda will be many times more useful to me now that I can understand its capabilities. For me a single manual that encapsulates the whole of Agenda is far more useful than a collection of videos,
Thank you so much drew.. Overall this’ll make the difference for me as will the possibility of capturing notes and then sorting and allocating them later. I am just about to start a new business and am now looking forward to getting much more engaged with Agenda. Are there any operative links to Remarkable ? Jeremy
Thanks, that is really good to hear, and it matches what I was hoping the manual would do. The features you mention have mostly been there a while, but if you only dip into Agenda now and then it is easy to miss them as they arrive one release at a time.
That is exactly why I want to keep the manual going rather than treat it as a one off. The plan is to prepare it with each release, in the supported languages, so there is always a current version that covers the whole app in one place.
Enjoy the read, and let us know if anything in there raises questions.
Jeremy, on reMarkable: nothing built in at the moment, no direct link between the two.
It is a bridge we hear asked for pretty regularly though, usually the same shape as what you are describing. Prep or reference on one device, handwritten notes coming back into Agenda afterwards. Nothing concrete to announce, but it is on our list, and the parts we find most interesting are getting handwritten notes back in a structured form and recognising checkbox-style items as tasks.
The one thing that does work today is our MCP server, if you are the sort to tinker. It lets an AI assistant read and write your Agenda notes, and people have wired up their own bridges to other tools that way. Not a plug-and-play reMarkable integration, but worth knowing it exists.
Good luck with the new business, and glad the manual is proving useful.
It is the full User Guide, readable start to finish rather than as separate How To articles, and it is there in all 20 supported languages. Each chapter page has a Download as PDF button if you prefer to read it offline. You can also reach it from the main site navigation, under the hamburger menu.
Thanks for the nudge in this thread, it is what got it moving. The plan stays as I said above, prepare it with each release so there is always a current version.