I had tried to do it in both of my other apps, but it did not work. I had realized I had another need – something to help me reflect on things and think and plan the road ahead. But a few months ago I tried Agenda again, in a different way. It was not as well suited as Evernote at storage and retrieval of files, it was not as well suited as Todoist as task tracking and management.

Each time I tried to make it replace one of the other apps. In the past few years I’ve tried to use Agenda a few times. I trust that Todoist will not let me forget anything I don’t want to forget. My system helps me keep track of my deadlines and schedule, and lets me also queue up tasks that I can do whenever. In Todoist I have a moderately complex and manageable system involving several lists that I trained myself to review regularly. I trust that anything I put in Evernote, I can find again. Even with thousands of notes and files, everything remains fast and searchable. Since you can open and modify files right from the note itself, it becomes basically a kind of note-based file system. I’ve all but stopped putting files in folders, and instead I put everything in Evernote. I use Evernote to store anything I’m not actively working on and might need to reference later. I’ve been a heavy Evernote user for the past three or four years.

In this long ramble I will try to explain how I ended up adding Agenda to the small list of applications I use every day.

Evernote task management