Agenda’s most notable feature is the ability to pin a note to a particular date, and most notably, an event on your calendar. (It also inserts a link to the note in the calendar event, so that you can refer to the note from two places: Agenda itself, or your calendar).

An Agenda Note Link in Fantastical

In a meeting, inevitably a task or action will occur to you (or be assigned to you); I think best practice in GTD would be to add it to your task manager (OmniFocus, in my case). If you’re referring to your task manager and reviewing weekly, you won’t miss this commitment or open loop.

The one thing I’ve struggled with is taking notes in meetings and then tossing them into the digital abyss of history. It’s easy to type notes during a meeting and never look at them again. They are there if you ever need them, but a once-over can help you process anything of importance or remind you of something you might not have realized deserved your attention.

To this end, using Agenda’s “Mark New Notes as On the Agenda” preference can create a kind of digital inbox of meeting notes that you can add to your weekly review. This feature, as it says, puts any new note that you create on Agenda’s, ahem, agenda, and you can simply click on the “On the Agenda” menu item in the Overview pane.

Mark New Notes on the Agenda

My practice is to leave all new notes on the Agenda until I’ve performed a weekly review. Simple yet powerful.

This week, still on the agenda