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Agendus coming to Windows Mobile
Iambic has launched a beta for a Pocket PC version of its popular organization program Agendus. Agendus is a personal information management (PIM) suite for PalmOS that offers a complete replacement for the default calendar, contact, and notes programs. Like most PIM programs, Agendus offers a choice of multiple views, color schemes, and icons for sorting through their data. Along with Datebk, it's one of the more popular PIM suites for Palm.
The Windows Mobile market is currently dominated by Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant. I'll be curious to see whether there's room for another PIM suite in the Windows Mobile world. There are already a number of also-ran programs vying for third place in the popularity contest. Ulti-Planner is a light-weight PIM program, and Pen Agenda offers a clean look for a low price, but neither gets the kind of attention that Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant do.
What I think is really a shame is that there's such a large market for 3rd party calendar/contacts/notes programs. Considering these are the functions that most casual PDA users are looking for when they pick up a device, it seems a bit silly that the default features of Windows Mobile PDAs leave so much to be desired. The month and week views in Pocket Outlook's calendar couldn't be much less useful. And it doesn't look like Microsoft has any plans to change much in the next version of Windows Mobile.
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Richard said 8:25AM on 11-24-2006
Quite frankly, I just want a replacement that cleans up the UI and the weekly and monthly view more useable.
All of the replacements I've seen have 1001 other features which I don't want because they won't sync and work with Outlook.
Oh and a UI that looks like an explosion in an icon factory.
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Joe Angrisano said 8:40AM on 11-27-2006
I agree 100%. Ever since converting from Palm to Windows Mobile I've been searching for a clean, simple replacement for the calendar. Something that cleans up the UI and makes weekly and monthly view easier to read.
Every single replacement I've found adds a hundred features, make the UI far more complex and adds icons all over the place. I don't need thousands of options for meetings on my handheld. I need something that makes the few appointments I do have easy to read.
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