January 2, 2020 at 8:43pm

Agenda and NotePlan: two apps that ostensibly do the same thing. They provide a method by which to take notes with regard to meetings, projects and daily happenings.

NotePlan NotePlan brings Markdown and other hypertext functions to your calendar and planning notes. What’s more, the latest NotePlan update, released last week, contains an AppleScript application programming interface (API) that enables users to automatically link its notes! NotePlan is organized around notes – one note per day, plus any number of undated notes that you can set up in parallel. Jot down notes and additional to-dos as they occur to you. At the end of the day or first thing tomorrow review the note and prioritize for the next day. NotePlan and the subscription model; VoiceOver; When your license is not accepted; X Callback Url Scheme; Navigation Jump to another date quickly; Jump to last opened Note; Jump to the current month; Open Notes in multiple windows; Notes & Todos Add a time to a Todo; Archive processed tasks; How to create a recurring or repeating todo. NotePlan’s simple folder/file-based architecture make that step an obvious one. Agenda, by contrast, started off with some impressive goals, and achieved a number of them at an early stage. But in doing so, managed to restrict its architecture in ways that are, I suspect, now hampering the developers as they struggle to implement things like. A5 MY ASSISTANT NOTEPLAN 12 Designs Large Notebook Writing Journal Notepad Daily Plan Notes Weekly Plan Bullet Journal Planner - This beautiful A5 My Assistant NotePlan comes in 12 different designs and layout: 01.

Design decisions

Both apps have been carefully designed but have ended up operating quite differently to one another. Agenda feels practically overwrought. It feels slow in operation, fiddly with a range of sliding panes, non-standard drop-down menus and a hybrid rich-text/markdown environment. Everything that is put into the app is tied up into its proprietary datastore.

In use, I often feel as thought I’m fighting against Agenda’s design. Yet it has the killer feature of being able to link together meetings in a continuous timeline.

Additionally, it allows me to attach files, take photos and create a rich tapestry of notes in relation to a project. The only problem is that because the note-taking itself is so obtuse, many of my notes say something like“refer to notes taken in OmniOutliner”. Not great.

NotePlan feels lightweight. It feels like I’m writing in a straight-forward text field that supports markdown. In essence, behind the scenes this is what is happening. Mac os 10.4 8 download. NotePlan creates a .md text file for each day that a note is created and stores it in the file system. It supports tagging which is how project notes can be tied together with the support of a search filter.

My usage

I used NotePlan consistently for about 6 months, but realised that I wasn’t getting any benefit from the history of notes I had taken. Things were getting lost, rendering the whole use of the app almost pointless.

So I purchased Agenda and moved in. This does a better job of enabling the review of notes, but the friction associated with getting data in is the roadblock.

Both apps offer feature parity across macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

How to buy

NotePlan is available via Setapp or as a standalone purchase. Agenda has a fair freemium/pseudo-subscription model whereby you keep forever the features the app has at that moment, plus anything added in the coming 12 months. If you want features beyond that, you pay once again.

The upshot

It’s hard to say which is better. They are both great, and both infuriating. I’m currently in the Agenda camp, but only just. I continue to look over the parapets to see how the other is performing. I own both, so the barrier to entry is low. Switching costs associated with data migration is the major factor, and that is not much.

I cannot provide a recommendation to others, but I am interested in alternative views.

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NotePlan is a unique, bullet journal style combination of calendar, notes and to-do list with iCloud Calendar Events and Reminders integration - all in one place.

The example shows how to use NotePlan to join a meeting plan created by other people and how to create a meeting schedule. Mockplus Cloud provides 8 interaction triggers and 15 animation effects to show basic page jumps.

Note Planner Adolescent

The interactive prototype — NotePlan is made in Mockplus Cloud:

Noteplan

There are 16 pages in this prototype. You can see all pages and their logic relations in the storyboard:

Hover or click on the elements to generate specs automatically. One-click to download assets: Logic pro x free download mac 2019.

Noteplan2

Noteplan Vs Roam

For team collaboration, members can add comments right on designs and all the other members can view and reply to the comments. You can mention members by using @+name:

Noteplan Obsidian

In the prototype panel, you only need to click and drag to create a jump link within the page or between the pages:

Noteplan App

Noteplan

Enjoy it!