Acadenda

Acadenda is your companion for academic conferences. Organize the program, choose sessions, capture research ideas, and stay connected with the people you meet.

Bring your program into Acadenda
• Import a conference PDF and keep the original available to read.
• Use the supplied prompt with an external AI service, then import its JSON response.
• Choose on-device parsing when Apple Intelligence is supported, enabled, and available.
• Import .acadenda or compatible JSON files, or paste JSON text.
• Follow an organizer's program link to receive schedule updates.

Plan your conference day
• Browse activities, talks, speakers, coauthors, and locations.
• Star the items you want to attend and see your schedule and recommendations in Today.
• Explore talks related to your research interests and set session reminders.
• View venue maps included with the program.
• Keep personal notes and stars when the organizer updates the schedule.

Your schedule on Apple Watch
• Sync starred events from your paired iPhone and check today's schedule, event details, and the next event on your watch.
• Add a watch face complication for your next starred event.
• Use the watch presentation timer with pause, resume, and reset controls, plus remaining-time and time-up alerts.

Capture every kind of insight
• Attach notes to talks, activities, or people.
• Write directly about a coffee break, lunch, or reception, even when there is no talk.
• Capture ideas with text, photos, handwriting, or audio.
• Save a draft and mark it complete when you are ready. Completed notes remain editable.
• Find notes with categories, search, and an activity filter, and export them for later use.

Keep academic connections going
• Follow researchers and organize names, affiliations, and contact details.
• Find people using Following, With Notes, and To Contact filters.
• Create an academic card, choose what to share, and exchange it as a QR code or contact file.
• Set contact reminders for conversations you want to continue.

Before, during, and after the conference
• Sync programs and notes through your personal iCloud account across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Keep presentations on time with the presentation timer.
• Choose English or Traditional Chinese, with Light, Dark, or System appearance.

External AI services are used separately. Apple Intelligence features depend on device support, system settings, and model availability. Cross-device syncing requires the same iCloud account and the relevant services to be enabled.
Apple Watch schedule syncing requires a paired iPhone. Timer alerts and haptic feedback follow your watch notification settings.