I think this is a great app in terms of design. However the “on the agenda” functionality, let’s be honest, is just a pre-configured tag. I could create a tag called ontheagenda. I think the app would do as a great note taking app, even a journal or a microblog if “on the agenda” is just removed from the architecture of the app. It is not standard vocabulary and could confuse a lot of users.
Sure, it is a basic flagging functionality. Many apps have flagging, and we call it on-the-agenda.
Personally, I am always in On the Agenda. I tend to have projects that run for a few days or weeks, and for each, I have a note. These notes are always put On-the-Agenda, so that everything I need right now is in there. I couldn’t live without it.
As you say, you could make a poor man’s version with tags, but apps make design decisions like this all time. In theory, there is redundancy in every app, and it represents design priorities. This is a daily note taking app, and being able to bump the priority of notes so they are temporarily easier to locate makes complete sense.
Drew
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@ykz4qjn7jj - “On The Agenda” lets all of your notes/agenda items be listed without any filters - which is a basic necessity of a specific app like this. Using filters and/or tags lets you find the notes you are interested in at the time you are interested in them. Without “On The Agenda” as the database of notes, you couldn’t do that. And when you can’t remember what filter or tag you want to use, you can always scroll through “On The Agenda” to find the note you want. Once one understands that the creation of a note puts it “on your agenda” merely as a result of creating it (otherwise, why would you create it?), the phrase “On The Agenda” makes complete sense.
Just as an addendum, by default notes are put on-the-agenda when you create them, but there is a setting to not do that.
On-the-Agenda was designed as a way to group together things you are working on right now, regardless of the project they are in. I personally have several things going on at the same time, and like to have a handful of notes in On-the-Agenda. But I take them off again when I don’t need immediate access.
You could do this with a tag, but we felt it was fundamental to this type of app, and made it a feature.
You are free to ignore the feature, of course. You can set new notes to not go on-the-agenda, and use tags or whatever you like. That was also a design goal: to allow people to build their own system.