Comments on: Review: Agendus 2.1

By: Ragart

Ragart — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:16:38 +0000

Ooo, good extra note there, Sinister — thanks!

To be honest I’m not a huge notes man myself. I’ll just as quickly fire up Word Mobile to write something down.

By: SinisterJunkie

SinisterJunkie — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:21:55 +0000

I have tired pretty much every PIM I can. I usually have two install along with PocketBreeze, which I can’t live without. The only time I tried Agendus I was extremely upset with the way that Agendus handles it’s advanced features by modifying the notes section of the appointment or task. This was completely unacceptable to me since I use the notes section of my items and don’t want my PIM cluttering up my data. I much prefer that way that PocketInformant handles it with and additional database to store the advanced information that isn’t included in the standard PIM database. The first few versions of PI8 had some issues but I haven’t had any problem with the latest versions.

By: Ragart

Ragart — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:45:28 +0000

Thanks, Tariq.
In terms of other PIM — I’m actually a little different here. I’m a pocketbreeze man myself. And before you go “heeeey but that’s not a real PIM!” it actually does the job very well for me. I realize PBreeze is just a today plugin and that it’s primarily for displaying what’s happening, but I’d argue it’s really powerful enough to be a today screen PIM.

PI8 is pretty cool, but I have to say I felt let down by its initial release. It’s just not my kind of PIM. It kept hanging on me (possibly fixed in newest version, but I don’t want to try it anymore) and the scrolling was lagging me in contacts and tasks.It also took up more RAM than Pbreeze does with just the calendar tab showing.

With PBreeze I can display a monthly calendar pop-up on my today screen and check which days in the month have appointments, so there’s month view.
I keep just one tab open: calendar. I can filter which tasks to put on my today screen, and I show just the appointments that are happening today. If I need to check what’s happening tomorrow I just use the pop-up calendar.
But Pbreeze is powerful enough to show you the next week of appointments, and have a separate tab for tasks and contacts.
In short — it does everything I need PI8 to do, but without the hassle.

I also tried the Agenda Fusion demo for around a day, but I really didn’t dig the interface. I find when I’m confronted with too much information I just end up getting a lot less done. I found my screen just looked too packed.

By: Tariq Bamadhaj

Tariq Bamadhaj — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:14:10 +0000

Great review there. I must say that the lack of support in third-party is a real downer, especially since SIPs like TouchPal are really popular nowadays.

What’s your opinion on say this with other PIMs available like Pocket Informant 8?