Agenda on Apple Watch keeps your most important notes on your wrist. It’s a focused companion to the iPhone app — built for the moments where you just want to glance at a checklist, tick something off, or jot down a thought you don’t want to lose.
Requirements
- An iPhone running Agenda 23 or later, paired with an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later
- An Agenda Premium licence is needed to pin Favorite notes (see below). Relevant notes, viewing, and dictation work without Premium.
Installing the Watch App
The Watch app is bundled with Agenda for iPhone, so there’s nothing to download separately. Once you’ve installed or updated Agenda on your iPhone:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone.
- Scroll down to find Agenda in the list of available apps and tap Install, or enable Automatic App Install to install it without further action.
The first time you open Agenda on your Watch, it will sync with your iPhone in the background.
What You See on the Watch
The main screen has two sections:
- Favorites — notes you’ve explicitly pinned to your wrist. They’re always there, even when your iPhone isn’t nearby.
- Relevant — notes Agenda thinks matter to you right now, based on date and recent edits. The same logic that drives the Relevant Notes widget on iPhone and Mac.
Tap any row to open the note. Inside a note, each paragraph appears as a row — tap a checklist item to tick it off, or tap any row to see its full text on a detail screen.
Pinning Favorite Notes
Favorites are the heart of the Watch app. Pick a handful of notes you want at your fingertips — daily tasks, a packing list, a shopping list, a meeting agenda — and they’ll always be one tap away from your wrist.
To add a favorite from the Watch:
- On the main screen, scroll to the bottom of the Favorites section.
- Tap Add Favorite.
- Browse your categories and projects, then tap the note you want to pin.
To remove a favorite, swipe left on its row in the Favorites section and tap Remove.
Favorites sync between your iPhone and Watch automatically — and the watch will remember them even if you go for a run without your phone.
Premium: Pinning favorites is a Premium feature. The first time you tap Unlock Favorites on the Watch, you’ll be taken to a screen explaining how to upgrade on your iPhone.
Ticking Off Checklists
Notes with checklist paragraphs are designed for the Watch. Tap a checklist item once to open it, and use the Check / Uncheck action to flip its state. The change syncs back to your iPhone and the rest of your devices instantly.
This is great for the kinds of lists you actually want on your wrist — a grocery list while you’re at the store, a packing list while you’re moving things into a suitcase, a checklist of pre-flight steps before a meeting.
Adding Paragraphs by Dictation
You can add new paragraphs to any note straight from your wrist using Apple Watch’s dictation.
- To append to the end of a note, open the note and tap the + Append button at the bottom.
- To insert a paragraph before or after an existing one, tap the paragraph, then choose Insert Before or Insert After.
Either way, you’ll see a dictation field along with a small picker that lets you choose the kind of paragraph — plain text, a checklist item, a bullet, or a numbered item. Tap Insert when you’re done. The new paragraph appears in the note on your watch and syncs back to your iPhone within a few seconds.
Tip: Dictation works best for short, single-paragraph additions. For longer edits, open the note on your iPhone or Mac.
Sync and Offline Use
The Watch app syncs through your paired iPhone. When the iPhone is nearby, changes flow in both directions in seconds. When the iPhone is out of range — say you’ve left it at home for a run — the Watch keeps showing your favorites and any notes it has already cached, and lets you tick off checklists. Any changes you make are queued and synced back the next time the two devices are reunited.
The Watch app is not designed as a full editor — its job is to give you the right note at the right moment. For anything more substantial, your iPhone and Mac are still home.