Taking your first steps into a new way of doing something as basic but important as taking and storing notes can take some getting used, especially if the app you’re using is flipping the workflow on its head as much as Agenda is. Take its ‘On the Agenda’ feature—a basic, but powerful way of keeping your most crucial notes at hand.

Putting an item ‘On the Agenda’ will prioritise it in a few ways: of course it will show up in the On the Agenda-view, but also it’ll show up higher in searches. Just click the yellow circle at the top left of a note (or press Shift + Command + U) to add it.

While the action in itself is simple, there are multiple ways of using this way of working to your advantage. Here are some of our suggestions:

This seems to be the most common usage of the On the Agenda feature. Any notes that contain crucial information that you need to have on hand at any time—simply click that yellow circle and it’s on the agenda. Say if there’s a master list of key phrases you need to have accessible easily, or perhaps some handy info that you can’t quite seem to remember but you need to access a lot, go ahead and mark it.

So you’re working on a couple of projects at the same time, each with several, if not dozens of notes attached to it and you want to be able to jump between them when necessary. Here’s a tip: mark any note you’re still actively working on as On the Agenda, so when you come backto it later, you can find easily where you left off and what you still need to finish.

This way of working dovetails nicely with another feature of that yellow circle we’ve been mentioning so much. Instead of just clicking it to mark something as on or off the agenda, you can also Control click and select ‘Mark as Done’ (or press Command + Enter). Using this distinction can help you manage projects by marking notes that you’re currently working on as ‘On the Agenda’, notes that you might want to work on later, but aren’t currently, as just open and notes that you’re completely done with as… Well, ‘done’.

The ‘On the Agenda’ feature is great to keep track of a list of important documents, but can become a little overwhelming if you need to reference a lot of documents. So here’s an idea for users with those needs: create a master index note. All you need is a fresh note—perhaps in a seperate project and category if you want to keep it really clean (you can hide it in the left menu later). In this note, you can paste Agenda links, which are literally just links to either notes or project pages.

To make an Agenda link from a note, simply Control click on any note and select Copy As > Agenda Link, or press Shift + Command + L. To create one for a project, simply Control click on the project and copy as an Agenda Link.

In the ‘master index’ note itself, you can stylize the links as you’d do with any other text, so feel free to numerate, indent the text or pretty it up any other way you’d like.