Agenda - Notes meets Calendar
Organise your days
Only for Mac
Free · In-App Purchases
Apple Design Award (ADA) winner Agenda connects your notes to your calendar—so meeting prep, project plans, and decisions stay tied to when they happen.
Most note apps forget time. You jot something down, it vanishes into a folder, and days later you can't recall why you made that choice or what you prepped for that meeting.
Agenda changes this. Each note sits on a timeline with your calendar. Get ready for next week's client meeting, capture decisions as they occur, and review exactly what brought you here — all in one glance.
"It's my top new app in years."
— John Gruber, daringfireball.net
"Every note app should be like Agenda."
— Khoi Vinh, subtraction.com
"One of the most intriguing note apps I've tried."
— John Voorhees, MacStories
YOUR NOTES, LINKED TO YOUR CALENDAR
Attach any note to a date or link it directly to a calendar event. Mark notes as "On the Agenda" to highlight them in a dedicated view — your shortlist of what matters now.
A TRUE TEXT EDITOR
Headings, lists, tables, checklists, indented blocks, and preformatted text — with the ease of plain text input. Concentrate on your writing; Agenda manages the appearance.
FILES, PHOTOS, AND LINKS
Attach files and images to any note. Everything syncs across your devices and can be previewed inline.
SMART NOTES
Ask questions about your notes using Ask Agenda. On the Mac, connect agents like Claude or Codex via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to automate the entire app.
PROJECTS AND CATEGORIES
Group notes into projects, group projects into categories. Drag to reorder, collapse to focus, or let the timeline organise for you.
MAC, IPAD, AND IPHONE
Agenda syncs across all your devices via iCloud or Dropbox. Share individual notes for real-time collaboration — ideal for team meetings or shared lists.
FREE TO USE, FOREVER
Agenda is free with no time limits. Premium features are available through a yearly subscription — and you keep every feature you unlock, even if you cancel. A one-time lifetime purchase is also available.
more A note-taking app that stands out thanks to its clever use of time. You can attach a specific date to each note you create, tie a note to an event already on your calendar or organise your notes on a timeline, making it easy to tap a specific date and find the note you created.
A note-taking app that stands out thanks to its clever use of time. You can attach a specific date to each note you create, tie a note to an event already on your calendar or organise your notes on a timeline, making it easy to tap a specific date and find the note you created.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and that is also true for the Agenda app. Works great, looks nice, is reliable, syncs fast. Adding a few extra features such as more options to sort results of note searches, adding reminders across notes etc. would make it even better. I just learned that in a few weeks time, Agenda will allow to create and edit reminders without leaving the app. Looking forward to seeing more features coming in. I already purchased the premium, it is worth it!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and that is also true for the Agenda app. Works great, looks nice, is reliable, syncs fast. Adding a few extra features such as more options to sort results of note searches, adding reminders across notes etc. would make it even better. I just learned that in a few weeks time, Agenda will allow to create and edit reminders without leaving the app. Looking forward to seeing more features coming in. I already purchased the premium, it is worth it!
Edit: Drew from Agenda contacted me and fixed the problem. Thanks a lot:)I have bought the full version, and I cannot use Agenda on my Macbook. I get the error message 'The operation couldn't be completed. (NSSQLiteErrorDomain error 11.)"
Developer Response We're sorry to hear that, in the (fortunately few) instances where we have seen this error it was caused by a certain power outage or kernel panic of the Mac. If you haven't done so, please contact us at support@agenda.com and we can help you from there.
Edit: Drew from Agenda contacted me and fixed the problem. Thanks a lot:)I have bought the full version, and I cannot use Agenda on my Macbook. I get the error message 'The operation couldn't be completed. (NSSQLiteErrorDomain error 11.)"
We're sorry to hear that, in the (fortunately few) instances where we have seen this error it was caused by a certain power outage or kernel panic of the Mac. If you haven't done so, please contact us at support@agenda.com and we can help you from there.
I’ve been using agenda since the week it became available. I have not regretted my purchase for a single day! Agenda has proven to be a great way of structuring my workday, often dividing my time amongs different projects for different companies. Agenda manages to do this, and provide me with a great way of keeping notes & progress. Really recommended! Thanks!
I’ve been using agenda since the week it became available. I have not regretted my purchase for a single day! Agenda has proven to be a great way of structuring my workday, often dividing my time amongs different projects for different companies. Agenda manages to do this, and provide me with a great way of keeping notes & progress. Really recommended! Thanks!
Great to hear! Thanks!
FIXED
- A category nested inside another can be dragged back out again. While dragging a category, move the pointer to the left to lift it out a level, or to the right to nest it deeper.
23.3.2 6 days ago
IMPROVED
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Next is available as a font, alongside the existing Atkinson Hyperlegible
FIXED
- Agenda no longer pauses on a black screen for several seconds on the first launch after updating to macOS 27
- A saved overview using a relative due date, such as seven days from today, now moves with the day instead of staying on the day it was saved
- Pasting into a table keeps the table where it is, instead of moving it to the end of the note
- The Web Clipper and Agenda’s automation no longer stop responding when a single connection stalls
- Automation no longer reports categories, projects and notes that have been deleted
- Editing a note through automation is much faster in large projects
23.3.1 6 days ago
NEW
- Siri can now work directly with your notes on macOS 27: ask it to create a note, add to a note, open a note, or move a note to another project
- New Shortcuts action to export a note as a PDF, ready to attach in Mail or Messages
- Notes created by Siri without a project now land in the Inbox instead of failing
- Dates in the reminder and event editors, and in the \assign and \event text actions, now understand typos and casual phrases like "nxt tues 3pm", with help from Apple Intelligence
- You can now share into the Inbox from the share sheet
IMPROVED
- Ask Agenda finds and uses your notes more reliably, and gives better grounded answers
- Ask Agenda now explains when Apple Intelligence is unavailable, instead of failing silently
- Ask Agenda can find notes by meaning, not just by matching words, on macOS 27
- The Inbox is now always shown in the sidebar, so you can use it as a place for unfiled notes
- Agenda adapts to the new look of macOS 27, including refinements to the sidebar and window chrome
FIXED
- Notes you move to the bin no longer show up in Spotlight and Siri searches
- Fixed a white flash when opening the Community window
- Sidebar drag and drop now lands where the pointer is
- Restore Purchases now refreshes your App Store receipt, so a valid subscription no longer shows as inactive
- Markdown links whose title contains square brackets, such as an issue key, now paste as a single link
- Pasting text that contains a Markdown table no longer moves the text below the table above it
- Saved overviews now describe what they search for, instead of repeating their name
23.3 10 Sept
IMPROVED
- Widgets now hide your note content while Agenda is locked, keeping it private on your desktop
FIXED
- Pressing Command-Delete at the start of a list item now keeps the list marker and indentation, clearing only the text
- Fixed occasional stray or overlapping section headers in long lists
23.2 3 Jul
NEW
- Send to Agenda: inline images and file attachments are now imported with thumbnails, placed inline where they appeared in the original email
IMPROVED
- Send to Agenda: \move("...") now also accepts smart/curly quotes
- Send to Agenda: trashed Inbox notes show up in Trash, and the Inbox itself can't be renamed
- Blockquote: pressing Return on an empty blockquote line exits the quote, matching list behaviour
FIXED
- Touch ID icon stays visible after a Touch ID lockout
- Reminders sync no longer marks a section as edited when a reminder change comes from the system
- Right-click on an empty line no longer eats the newline
- Scanner: rotated landscape scans no longer look squashed
- Web Clipper detects missing Safari host permission and prompts to grant it
- Share extension hides the Send to Agenda Inbox from the destination picker
- Cleared up stray ghost note items in the section list after interrupted animations
- Fixed issues with untranslated strings in some languages
23.1 3 Jun
NEW
- Help > Use Agenda on Apple Watch menu
IMPROVED
- Web Clipper Safari toolbar icon now uses its full colours instead of being accent-tinted
FIXED
- Sidebar leaves extra room at the top when Reduce Transparency is enabled on macOS 26
23.0.1 27 May
NEW PREMIUM
- Contacts integration — Link people in your notes to contacts in your address book. Quickly email, message, or FaceTime them right from your notes
- Send to Agenda — Get a personal email address from the Integrations menu; anything sent to it arrives as a note in the synced Inbox
NEW
- Web Clipper — A Safari extension that captures the current page or selection straight into your Agenda Inbox
- New MCP tool and x-callback URL action for moving notes between projects
- Added Japanese, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian localisations
- Simplified welcome experience for new users on macOS 15 and later
IMPROVED
- Related panel sections now cycle between Closed, Compact and Expanded states; your preference persists between sessions
- New context-menu actions to convert text into an email link or a person tag
- Paste As > Plain Text is now bound to the standard ⇧⌘V shortcut
- Formatting palette: Code language submenu is now reachable from the dot popover
- Improved translations across all 20 supported languages
FIXED
- Per-template undo in the templates editor
- Ask Agenda no longer pulls notes and projects from the Bin into its context
- Fixed invisible drag insertion line on non-Retina displays
23.0 25 May
FIXED
- Fixed a crash caused by certain Unicode characters (combining diacritical marks) in note text
- Fixed search autocomplete not responding to mouse clicks and arrow key navigation
- Fixed the MCP edit_note tool removing embedded objects (attachments, drawings, tables) on any edit
- Fixed a crash on launch related to right-to-left text detection in empty paragraphs
- Fixed a memory crash during Spotlight indexing when many attachments are deleted
22.3.1 11 Apr
IMPROVED
- Added three-mode paragraph filter: All Content, Include Selected, and Exclude Selected
- Letter and roman numeral numbering support for numbered lists
- Copy As Markdown now produces valid markdown tables
- Improved paste handling: prefer HTML over RTF when pasting from external apps
- Improved highlight keyboard shortcut and increased highlight visibility
- Dismiss popovers and sheets when the app privacy lock is applied
- Added Ask Agenda to Help > How To menu
- MCP: Added markdown content update to edit_note tool
- MCP: Added file attachment support to create_note, edit_note, and append_to_note tools
FIXED
- Fixed search field corrupting text when typing tags or people quickly
- Fixed mail links broken after TextBundle import
- Fixed image aspect ratio issues in display and copy/paste export
- Fixed large spacing at the top of separate note windows on macOS 26
- Fixed MCP search_notes returning wrong totalCount when using limit with filters
- Fixed some notes not appearing correctly in Spotlight search results
22.3 24 Mar
NEW
- Claude Desktop plugin for linking to Agenda's MCP server
IMPROVED
- Better URL detection when pasting onto selected text
FIXED
- Integrations menu now appears in all languages
22.2.1 14 Feb
NEW
- MCP server for AI assistant integration, allowing tools like Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex to search notes, manage projects, and more
- Support for action syntax (\color, \done, \pinned, etc.) in automation and Shortcuts search queries
FIXED
- Overviews now filter by focus mode categories
- Inspector panels now filter by focus mode categories
- Group by Project now works in Today Overview
- PDF export now produces multiple pages
22.2 11 Feb
NEW
- Search Notes support in Shortcuts and x-callback-url
IMPROVED
- Enhanced PDF export with coloured note backgrounds
FIXED
- Autocomplete issues in non-English languages
- Corrected poorly localised action strings
- Various crash fixes and stability enhancements
22.1 5 Feb
Lower CPU usage during search indexing to avoid app interruptions.
22.0.2 30 Jan
NEW PREMIUM
- Advanced Tables: header rows, adaptive column widths, drag/drop reordering
- Drag and drop paragraphs and list items from the ruler
- Search within attachments (PDF, Word, RTF, text files)
NEW
- Convert CSV/TSV selections into tables
- Right-to-left language detection and alignment
- Smart Overviews update relative date tags like #defer(today) daily
- Letter and roman numeral lists using the \numbered action
- Manually reorder projects in "Other Projects" sidebar
IMPROVED
- Table cells support tags, people, stars, reminders, links, highlighting, autocompletion
- Enhanced ruler drag visuals
- Faster attachment indexing
- Pasting a URL now links to selected text instead of replacing it
- Improved table cell copy/paste behavior
- Paste copied table cells as CSV text into text
- CSV/TSV paste support into table cell selections
- Preserve PDF attachments as PDFs when exporting to RTFD
- Include archived projects when sorting alphabetically
- Improved search highlight readability on grayed-out text
FIXED
- Improved Spotlight search accuracy when cutting content
- Fixed markdown export issues with styled text whitespace
- Fixed section headers covering index in Tag and People browsers
- Fixed note focus loss when sorted by edited date
- Fixed sort order indicator in document header
- Fixed table drag-and-drop performing copy instead of move
- Various crash fixes in tables, ruler view, and popovers
22.0 23 Jan
NEW
- Use Alt+Shift+Click to open note link in a new window
IMPROVED
- Scrolling now follows automatically when moving paragraphs with keyboard shortcuts
- Enhanced support for reduced transparency accessibility mode
FIXED
- Window maximized state restores correctly after quitting and relaunching
- Text actions like \date expand properly when title field loses focus
- Search and assistant popover positioning on macOS 26
- Calendar search field retains focus while typing
- Note layout updates correctly when window is resized
- Improved scrolling performance on macOS 26
- Resolved blank format palette panel issue when tearing off twice
- Prevented multiple dialogs from appearing with rapid move commands
- Inline text style toggles function correctly when removing multiple styles
- Tag searches display results immediately
- Copy Selection to New Note now copies only the selection, not the entire note
- Fixed PDF export crash with text attachments
- TextBundle export now preserves image links accurately
21.1 11/11/2025
IMPROVED
- Upgraded Related Notes with better scoring for improved suggestions
- Refined appearance of search placeholder on macOS 26+
FIXED
- Correct handling of hidden content in Copy/Cut/Delete for folded paragraphs
- Resolved CoreSpotlight indexing for lengthy notes
- Addressed laggy scrolling on macOS 26.0
- Removed outdated agenda backlinks in Calendar events
- Fixed crash when typing #star tags with visible folded sections
21.0.2 25/09/2025
IMPROVED
- Shift+click to tick an item now also marks reminder as complete
- Scroll view edges in inspector panels now fade
- Archived notes included in search results by default
- TextBundle import improved for attachments
FIXED
- Related Notes now displays other notes with matching tags
- Ask Agenda popover looks better when switching modes
- Ask Agenda no longer creates broken links
- Shortcuts no longer cause beachballing
- Community button functional again on macOS 26
- Content no longer under title bar when app resumes
- Icons for Expand and Expand All menu items
- Inline format buttons in inspector palette functional again
21.0.1 18/09/2025
NEW
- Support for new liquid glass interface in macOS 26
- New layered icon for macOS 26
- Ask Agenda assistant (macOS 26 only)
- Ask Agenda uses Apple Intelligence
- Ask Agenda can access your Agenda notes
- Ask Agenda operates on-device, no cloud use
- Ask questions to Ask Agenda in plain language
- Receive responses from Ask Agenda in plain language
- Get links to relevant notes in Ask Agenda's replies
- Limit Ask Agenda queries to specific date ranges (e.g., last month)
NEW PREMIUM
- Ask follow-up questions to Ask Agenda
FIXED
- Issues with subdued token style in search field
21 11/09/2025
NEW
- Markdown tables in imported or pasted text are now converted to Agenda tables
FIXED
- Resolved issue in text editor where indentation and formatting were lost
- Resolved issue preventing new lines at the end of a note
- Tables now export correctly as markdown, maintaining row and column order
20.2 13/06/2025
FIXED
- Layout issues at the top of the note list
- Deleting tables with backspace
- Dictating no longer removes text when typing
- Formatting palette dismisses with full keyboard navigation
- "Search for Tag" menu in Tag browser no longer crashes
- Tables in notes export as markdown tables
- Share sheet retrieves website titles from URLs
- Fixed odd text when editing collaboratively with folded sections
20.1.1 23/05/2025
NEW
- Agenda is now available in Korean!
IMPROVED
- You can now insert tables using Writing Tools
FIXED
- Prevent popover text formatting palette from multiplying
- Various fixes to search
- The date search field now appears and behaves better
- Sorting when grouping with Marked as Done now works
- The title in the Template Manager window is no longer missing
- Fixed issues editing in Tag Browser window
- Fixed crash related to color conversion on latest OSes
- Clicking a note-linked event now takes you to the note properly
- The search popover will no longer go out the right of screen
- Attachments dragged within a note to the start of a list item do not disappear
- Applying a color or highlight to text does not remove bold or italic from words anymore
20.1 27/03/2025
FIXED
- The unfold button now is more responsive
- Fixed issues in big projects when switching text filter
- Paragraphs with a filter applied should remain visible as you edit, not disappear
- When editing a token in search, the "Save Overview" button will hide
- Fixed background color of the calendar selection popover in settings
- The text filter for bullet/dash lists will now show the preferred title
- Fixed a few crashes
20.0.1 22/01/2025
NEW PREMIUM
- Fold (collapse) note sections including headings and nested lists
- Apply text filters to notes to control what you see
- Choose from many text filters, including todo items, headings, lists, and images
- Combine multiple text filters to include only what you want onscreen
- Expand filtered text to see the whole note
- Edit notes even when folded sections and filtered text are present
- Store a text filter for any project and overview
- Add a text filter for search matches to any new overview
IMPROVED
- The Features screen makes clearer what you receive when purchasing
- There is a now a visual indication when using a non-standard sort order
20.0 17/01/2025
NEW
- Siri support for in-app search
- Siri support for better interchange of data
- Siri note preview
IMPROVED
- Spotlight support for App Entities and Shortcuts
FIXES
- Improved performance when sharing many notes
- Changing font now properly refreshes all attachments
- Fixed a new issue with scrolling when adding new projects
- Fixed missing translations
19.2.1 13/09/2024
NEW
- Siri support for in-app search
- Siri support for better interchange of data
- Siri note preview
IMPROVED
- Spotlight support for App Entities and Shortcuts
FIXES
- Improved performance when sharing many notes
- Changing font now properly refreshes all attachments
- Fixed a new issue with scrolling when adding new projects
- Fixed missing translations
19.2 12/09/2024
FIXED
- A category nested inside another can be dragged back out again. While dragging a category, move the pointer to the left to lift it out a level, or to the right to nest it deeper.
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