My impressions after a couple weeks: Input and ToDo structure

[mekentosj]

Thank you for the constructive feedback, much appreciated. Regarding the keyboard bug, we’ll respond to that one in the other topic you created (thanks for that!).

On the desktop version, input of the different types of entries ie Title, List types etc. are cumbersome to invoke. The “little circle” on the left of a line is not always present and is “fickle” in its invocation. The right button fly-out menu is cumbersome to use in a normal typist’s flow. We really need keyboard shortcuts!

Perhaps you hadn’t seen them yet, but we have a full set of keyboard shortcuts, I’ve copied the ones regarding editing below:

Shortcut		Command
⌃⌘ 0		Body Text
⌃⌘ 1		Heading
⌃⌘ 2		Sub-Heading
⌃⌘ 3		Minor Heading
⌃⌘ 4		Minor Sub-Heading
⌃⌘ 5		Preformatted
⌃⌘ 0		Body Text
⌃⌘ 0		Body Text
⇧⌘ -		Bullet List
⇧⌘ I		Numbered List
⇧⌘ C		Checklist
⌃⌘ C		Mark as Checked / Unchecked
⌘ ]		Increase Indentation
⌘ [		Decrease Indentation
⌘ B		Bold
⌘ I		Italic
⌘ U		Underline
⌘ L		Fixed Width
⇧⌘ X		Strikethrough
⌃⌘+		Superscript
⌃⌘-		Subscript

A more MD markup approach to entering lines and assigning them attributes for those who prefer that (like me) would be really nice.

That too is already there, see this How to topic:

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Markdown Cheatsheet A powerful way to edit text in Agenda is to use markdown shortcuts to quickly insert or format text. Although Agenda is not a markdown editor pur sang, it does recognize some markdown syntax for applying styles and inserting things like reminders, checklists, and dates. [image] You’ll find a complete overview of the supported markdown shortcuts here: Markdown Cheat Sheet

One such ToDo structure I use in my planning is a Topic of an item (as a note?) associated with the greater project scope. It feels like Agenda is “missing a layer” of organizational structure?

You can build these structures yourself using Agenda links (and optionally pinned notes) if you want, in the Talk section I have given a few examples. Tags in combination with smart overviews are another way to create these kind of top level overviews.

Have a look to some of the techniques used in the examples here:

Copy-and-Paste 2.0 – How Templates Make a World of Difference

If you use Agenda for things like weekly catchup meetings, daily standups, prospective client meetings, and onboarding protocols, chances are you often find yourself using copy-and-paste of notes from other occasions, because the “agenda” is usually fixed. Here I’ll show you how to create note templates in a few simple steps using text replacement utilities. This makes Agenda even more powerful, and can save you a ton of time. nmcp → No more copy and paste! In this article I’m using TextExpa…

Or this suggestion:

Link one note to multiple calendar events

This indeed has been requested more often, for now we’d like to stick to a 1:1 relationship though. One solution is to create a “summary note” and use Agenda links to create a kind of “index card” to the individual notes for each event. Or alternatively, you could add a specific tag to all notes that related to the same series of events, e.g. #teammeeting, which you could then create a smart overview for that ties them all together in one overview.

Finally, indeed more powerful checklist options as well as the ability to create smart overviews of unchecked list items for example is indeed on our roadmap