Yes! This is so important. I’ve not looked at the Agenda website for ages, but certainly much of the discussion here in the community is about keeping on top of tasks. Doing this well certainly gives an empowering feeling!
But I’d love to see more emphasis in the discussion about the proceses and workflows that support thinking. Agenda is now the main app that I ‘live’ in, and it’s where I’d like to do more thinking, but I find Agenda imposes limitations that mean I sometimes ‘move’ elsewhere - and that tends to be physical PostIts on a physical whiteboard. I move the notes around, group them, name the groups, draw links between them, arrange them as a logical flow etc etc.
Because want to keep all my thoughts and planning together in one place, I try to do this process in Agenda, and often I can, using outlines, but the lack of collapsing makes in unwieldy, and the lack of ability to create visible links between sections is a problem. I sometimes use one note per main item, with lower outlines in the note, which allows me to collapse the notes and just see the title, and to drag them to rearrange. But I often mind myself wanting to ‘promote’ or ‘demote’ notes and outline ‘lines’ which gets fiddly and disrupts the flow.
The other approach I use sometimes is creating a scribble in a note, which is fine for quickly getting something out of my head and sketching relationships between idea, but it’s then static and has to be developed elsewhere.
I know I could find and use another app for this kind of stuff, but I’d love to be able to keep it all in Agenda - I really hate the mental overload of having to decide where to start working on an idea! Building on the existing Agenda approach I think the following developments would be most helpful to me:
- Ability to collapse any heading, paragraph or outline item, truncating paragraphs longer than one line with … at the end to indicate there’s more.
• Ability to ‘promote’ a heading to become a note, with the heading as the title, and bringing all lower levels into the note - Being able to have two windows in Agenda, one showing all the notes in the project or search results, the other showing the active note I’m editing, which might also be in the project. This would allow working in one note while getting an overview of the other relevant notes - being able to see the notes ’semi-collapsed’ ie titles, headings, first line of each para (for example) would be a huge step forward.
Sorry, I hadn’t intended to start a feature request!