Agenda: A Quick Review

Agenda is a new productivity app for the elementary OS desktop by Dane Henson.

Agenda is intentionally a very lightweight, minimalist app. It opens with a clean slate.

Adding items to your agenda is simple. The tasks appear in the order you've added them.

However, in my particular case, I wanted to drink my beer before going to bed. Tasks are easily dragged to their new order.

What works?

This is a strong first app by Dane. Here's what I like:

• Intuitive, minimalist design.
• Although I didn't love the pop-up interface at first, I grew to enjoy it as I used it more. It fits the philosophy.
• The drag-and-drop was a bit ugly, but it worked exactly as it should.

What doesn't work?

• It has no ability to set deadlines.
• It also doesn't allow agenda items to split into smaller tasks.
• It seems like this is more of a panel applet than a full-fledged application. Maybe a panel icon?
• There are a few bugs as expected. This is the daily-unstable build we're talking about here.

The bottom line

This is a great little app that I plan to use if it adds just a few more features. While rough around the edges, it shows great promise.

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:agenda-developers/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install agenda-tasks