If you’re a regular reader of the site, you already know that elegant note-taking apps are a dime a dozen. Some manage to stand out with unique features while others manage to squander any potential with poor business models. There are a few noteworthy apps that still manage to be worth using after a couple of weeks, like Bear. Agenda from Momenta isn’t just an elegant note-taking app. It is that, supercharged with some essential features that other non-note-taking apps provide, all blended in perfectly. Agenda is an app I never thought I needed until I actually used it.
Instead of just being a great environment to write in and provide seamless sync (Agenda does these really well), the app is more focused on planning, documenting, and organizing your notes. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the actual note-taking aspect isn’t even the meat of the app. Agenda wants you to document and date your notes and wants you to use the app in meetings, on vacations as a journal, and more. It even has a lovely timeline and loads of organization options for projects, groups, and notes. This seems quite complex at first, but a lot of the functionality is optional and the app itself is free to use with a good amount of features.
Agenda has an interface that recedes into the background when it isn’t needed and lets you focus on actually writing. You can swipe from either side to access the sidebar on the left that has all your projects and the overview or the calendar on the right. The actual note taking supports Markdown, HTML, checkboxes in lists, and more. If you use an iPad, it has great external keyboard support. In fact, I’ve written this entire article completely in Agenda.
The onboarding experience is a bit disappointing on iPhone because you’re forced into a landscape video as soon as you launch the app the first time. I get why they did this, considering the app and video are on multiple aspect ratios, but I was hoping they’d do a portrait one or an interactive overlay on the actual app to get newcomers up to speed with the feature set.
Agenda’s pricing model is what I’d consider the best current model for smaller studios. You get the app for free with limited functionality and have the option to pay $9.99 for a year of Premium features that you get to keep even after the year ends if you just want it on iOS. If you want the features on both iOS and macOS, it is $24.99 for a year of support and new features. While many apps are moving to subscription models, this one is the most consumer-friendly one, because you don’t get locked out after the subscription period ends. You can then wait and see if there are more new premium features added before subscribing again. I wish more apps did this and I hope it works out well for Agenda.
Agenda is a gorgeous and elegant note-taking app that is beyond powerful and can do many things for you brilliantly. It can easily replace a few of your apps in a single go and the sync works brilliantly. While many apps have issues with iCloud, I had no trouble here. I can’t wait to see how the team evolves the app as time goes by. With the initial launch on iOS, I can see this replacing a notes app, a journaling app, and to some extent a calendar and to-do app for many as well.
In the Calendar app on your Mac, choose Calendar Accounts, then select the account you want to delete. Click the Remove button at the bottom of the account list. You can view, add, and modify events, and respond to invitations, in the Calendar app on all your devices that use the same accounts.
Agenda is available for Free as a Universal app for iPhone and iPad. There’s also a Mac version available on the Mac App Store.
This year has been a literal dumpster fire, but we all still have lives that we need to live, as hectic as they can be. We know — you have meetings, appointments, events, errands, and so much more on your plate, and managing everything can be quite difficult. That's why it really helps to have a digital calendar to help you track everything on your schedule. Here are some of our favorite calendar apps on Mac.
Fantastical has been around for several years now, and even though it has switched to a subscription model, it remains the favorite calendar app for many of us here at iMore.
With Fantastical, you are getting a fully functional desktop app that also has a menubar version for quick access. You can customize your views for daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly, and your agenda of events appears in the side bar as well. If you are running multiple calendars at once, things can get gnarly — Fantastical lets you customize sets of calendars to view at once, and they can even be location-based, so things don't get too crazy when viewing. For example, you can have work calendars viewable while you're at work, but personal ones when you're at home.
The natural language input is also top-notch, as the app easily understands and fills out all of the appropriate fields while you type out something as simple as 'Have lunch with Mom at In-N-Out on Tuesday at 2 p.m.'
While Fantastical does have a subscription model now, previous users of Fantastical 2 get most of the features unlocked, so it's still very functional. If you're new to Fantastical, there is a trial to test it out to see if you like it before deciding on a subscription. The free version has restricted features.
Fantastical has a beautiful interface that's easy to use and plenty of robust features.
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Another great option is BusyCal. This app automatically syncs up with any accounts that you're using with the Mail app on Mac, and everything will be up-to-date. The design of the app itself is simple and clean, but there are plenty of powerful features as well. One of those is the Smart Filter, which lets you create rules for what events are shown. For example, you can set a filter to only show birthdays or repeating events. BusyCal also lets you have multiple Smart Filters set up at once, making it easier to organize your hectic calendar.
Other features of BusyCal include a menubar app, travel time, natural language input, and a ton of customization options including font face, size, colors, time format, and much more. If you don't like Fantastical's subscription model, BusyCal and its one-time cost is an excellent alternative to consider.
BusyCal packs in a ton of useful features and is highly customizable. It also has a single, one-time cost.
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If you are satisfied with the default Calendar app on Mac, but just want a companion app to go with it in the menubar, then Calendars is worth a look. This free app lives in your menubar, acting as a viewer for the calendars that you've set up in Calendar. It serves as a quick way to see your schedule and agenda in a single glance, so you aren't able to add new events from this app. There is an optional subscription that gives you more features, like adding Google Calendar accounts and backgrounds.
Calendars lives in your menubar and serves as a companion to the default Calendar app.
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Need your calendar app to be more than just a calendar? Then Informant is the one you're looking for. This powerful app rolls your calendar, task manager, and notes into one, giving you everything you need in a single glance. The task manager element of Informant is also very flexible, working with you, whether it's GTD, Franklin Covey, or a simple and basic task list. Informant also has support for multiple filters, so you can easily switch and access the important stuff whenever you need to.
Informant rolls your calendar, task manager, and notes app into one.
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If you want your calendar to live in your menubar, but need a bit more functionality than Calendars, then InstaCal is worth considering. This app also lives in your menubar, so it's not a full blown app like the others. However, it keeps your calendar a click away, so you can view your events, agenda, and even tasks, as well as having the functionality of adding new events and tasks directly. InstaCal works with any of the calendars that you already have set up in Calendar, or you can manually add unlimited accounts from Google, Office 365, and Outlook. It also has Dark Mode support, customization options, and more.
InstaCal lives in your menubar but still gives you plenty of functionality, including the ability to add events and tasks.
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Do you want a calendar app that is simple and lightweight? Mini Calendar fits the bill perfectly. It gives you access to your calendars three ways: on the desktop, from the Dock, and from the menubar. When it's on the desktop, it is always-on and sits above the wallpaper. From the Dock, you just need to click on the icon and it will bring up the calendar as a popup. Mini Calendar is configurable in terms of color, shortcut keys, and it can show you sunrise and sunset times too. It's just a light and fast way to get to your calendar when you need to.
Mini Calendar is a lightweight calendar app that you can access from your desktop, Dock, or menubar.
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Rounding out the list is Calendar 366 II, which is another menubar calendar app. However, it's one of the more fully featured ones, which is quite impressive. With Calendar 366 II, you get full access to your calendar and reminders right from your menubar, and you can change the view to year, month, week, day, agenda, or even list. It has eight themes for light and dark modes, custom colors, calendar sets, custom font sizes, Spotlight integration, travel time, Alfred and LaunchBar support, and so much more. To pack all of the features of a full on application into just the menubar is pretty amazing, and the cost of the app is not too much either, all things considered.
I am stuck on a compiler error in Xcode: 'Ft2build.h: No such file or directory'BackgroundFirst time developing with embedxcode. It concerns a project with an adafruit featherwing touchscreen with teensy. So I have to include AdafruitILI9341 and AdafruitGFX.Took me a while before I found out that I had to modify the makefile with: USERLIBSLIST = AdafruitILI9341 AdafruitGFXProblemBut still, when compiling, I am getting one error: 'Ft2build.h: No such file or directory'This happens in file fontconvert.c, part of AdafruitGFX (on line #include ).What I tried up to nowSo I added the path where ft2build.h is located (/opt/local/include/) to the build settings, HEADERSEARCHPATHS, but without luck. Xcode for macos 10.0.6.
Calendar 366 II is one of the most feature-packed menubar calendar apps there is.
These are just a few of our favorite calendar apps on the Mac App Store. What are your favorites? Let us know in the comments!
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