I own both, so the barrier to entry is low. I continue to look over the parapets to see how the other is performing. I’m currently in the Agenda camp, but only just. They are both great, and both infuriating. If you want features beyond that, you pay once again. 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. NotePlan is available via Setapp or as a standalone purchase. This does a better job of enabling the review of notes, but the friction associated with getting data in is the roadblock.īoth apps offer feature parity across macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Things were getting lost, rendering the whole use of the app almost pointless. 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. It supports tagging which is how project notes can be tied together with the support of a search filter. NotePlan creates a .md text file for each day that a note is created and stores it in the file system. In essence, behind the scenes this is what is happening. It feels like I’m writing in a straight-forward text field that supports markdown. 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”. Yet it has the killer feature of being able to link together meetings in a continuous timeline.Īdditionally, it allows me to attach files, take photos and create a rich tapestry of notes in relation to a project. In use, I often feel as thought I’m fighting against Agenda’s design. Everything that is put into the app is tied up into its proprietary datastore. It feels slow in operation, fiddly with a range of sliding panes, non-standard drop-down menus and a hybrid rich-text/markdown environment. Design Decisionsīoth apps have been carefully designed but have ended up operating quite differently to one another. They provide a method by which to take notes with regard to meetings, projects and daily happenings. Agenda and NotePlan: two apps that ostensibly do the same thing.
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