Pocket Informant or Agenda Fusion?

[mavakil]

Hi PPC-lovers,

I'm a huge user of tasks and appointments in Outlook as well as my imate. however, the reminder and snooze feature, is too prehistoric.

When reminded about an appointment or an alarm, I'm unable to snooze it to any desired time and am forced to snooze it to the default times in the pop-up window, which are "5 mins, 10 mins, 1 day, 1 week etc.". If 1 week is two early and I want to snooze the task or the appointment to a week and a half or two weeks, I'm unable too!!!! *frustration!*

Furthermore, recently I've been receiving multiple alarms for the same task. When I say multiple alarms, I don't mean, that the reminder pops up multiple times. But when the reminder does pop up, the alarm rings and rings and rings and rings. It rings some twenty times before it shuts itself up. It's as if the phone's ringing. I've recently downloaded Check Notifcations: http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/checknotifications.shtml Hopefully that should sort out the ringing problem.

Anyway, I certainly feel a more advanced PIM would be more helpful than the default one installed. Which would you recommend Pocket Informant or Agenda Fusion? Which is a better task and contact manager?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Looking forward to your post.
Arif

[Darius Wey]

Hi mavakil, welcome to Pocket PC Thoughts! :)

This question pops up time and time again, and in my opinion, the best way to tackle it is to try it out for yourself.

You can download trial versions of both Agenda Fusion (http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&sectionId=0&catalog=0&productType=2&platformId=2&productId=79456) and Pocket Informant (http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&sectionId=0&catalog=0&productType=2&platformId=2&productId=10226) and install each one into your device. Both have compelling features worth having, but as for which one you prefer, that will be left up to you to decide. Agenda Fusion has undergone quite a few updates over the past week or two (in particular, the new Power Text feature and updated status icons, among others). It's gearing up for the v7 release which is supposedly just around the corner.

Personally, I prefer Agenda Fusion, while others prefer Pocket Informant. Each have their ups and downs. Give the trial versions a go, perhaps give each one a week to test out, and eventually, one will pop right out at you and tell you that that's the one you like most. ;)

[Mark Kenepp]

As Darious recommends, it certainly wouldn't hurt to try out the products, I think you will be very happy you did.

When reminded about an appointment or an alarm, I'm unable to snooze it to any desired time and am forced to snooze it to the default times in the pop-up window, which are "5 mins, 10 mins, 1 day, 1 week etc.". If 1 week is two early and I want to snooze the task or the appointment to a week and a half or two weeks, I'm unable too!!!! *frustration!*

I use Pocket Informant 5.0 at present and it doesn't change the way my Pocket PC displays or snoozes alarms. I still only have the same limited snooze durations you mention. You will need to find out if Agenda Fusion works the same way.

Cheers,

[mavakil]

Thanks for your replies!

I've just tried out Agenda Fusion, it too doesn't change the alarm feature for appointments and tasks and I'm still stuck with the limited snooze options.

Do you knowany other s'ware that may help?

ta,
Arif

[Darius Wey]

Do you knowany other s'ware that may help?

Why don't you try something like this (http://www.apsoftsystems.com/apreminderplus/index.htm) where you set automatic snoozing for different time intervals. I'm not 100% sure if it allows for a span of time of greater than 1 week since I've never tried this software, but it's worth a shot nonetheless.

[V-iPAQ]

PI has hierarchical tasks so I would recommend that over AF.
otherwise the features are the same period
as for snooze alarms, I would recommend trying pocket clock.it has infinite possibilities

[Lex]

I'd like to suggest that if you have an event that you'd want to snooze a week later, you can make a weekly recurring event to alarm at the same time each week and if you someday no longer need the event/alarm you can delete it. You may otherwise have to create separate events for when you need to hear an alarm.

If you just need 'electronic post-it notes' for smaller tasks like phone calls, errands, etc. you might check apMemo+, version 1 of which is free.

http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/apmemo.shtml