Thank you for your remarks, @stevew, and @trebso! I think anyone can create a series of connections between colors and actions, suiting his/her workflow. I think it is an essential feature to develop further because, in my view and experience, Colors are much more readable than texts because they are images (I mean, a colored surface is an Image). Our brain catches them faster than written notes, which are symbolic communication systems that the brain has to decipher. So connecting a color with a specific meaning improves communication making the workflow through the notes more fluid. In Agenda, notes are organized in a chronological order inside the projects, which is the main axis along with developing the flux of our work experience. Inside it colors representing a meaning or a type of event can immediately define the context of an action/event.
I can see the rationale but am afraid that it’s something we’d be hesitant to do because it would add a layer of complexity, i.e. you turn colors into “status”. The next thing you’d then want is to filter notes on status, etc.
I understand your hesitancy in terms of your workload and perhaps internal complexity, but I don’t see why naming colours and using them as statuses should be a problem for the user. It seems a natural evolution to me, and would address the request that has often been made to allow “tags” in the title.
I’d love to be able to filter on say Green and see all my notes on say vision & strategy!
You could add a tag, hash tag green etc. The problem with named colors is that it allows us to use custom colors so how would those be handled with filtering?
@mekentosj Here’s a simple feature suggestion. Type backslash and a color name (ie \green) to colorize the note. Then @trebso would just have one action (essentially) \green # green
I think @mekentosj meant he had put it in our development (beta) version, and it will be in the next release. We are beta testing Agenda 16 now. Hopefully out in the coming weeks.