Agendus for iPhone to Get Major Overhaul

By James Alan Miller on March 8, 2010 1:06 PM

SplashData, which recently acquired iambic, let us know today that it plans to update the latter's popular PIM app for the iPhone, Agendus, to version 2.0. According to the correspondence, the application will receive a major interface makeover and the addition of many new features. No other details about the upgrade were given. We expect to heare more from SplashData about Agendus 2.0 next month.

Now on version 1.2, Agenus, long available for other smartphone platforms, first found its way to the iPhone and iPod touch last summer. The edition for Apple's mobile devices ($4.99, available here), enhances and extends the built-in iPhone Contacts App while introducing its own comprehensive Task management function. It includes a Today View, a Task List View, a Compact and Expanded Contact Views, and features like Contact Linking, One Tap Dial / Email, quick item deletion, task categories, colors, grouping and filtering, over-the-air services such as integrated weather forecasts, and more.

Shortly after the release of Agendus 1.0, iambic updated the app to version 1.01, which introduced over thirty improvements, including the addition of full landscape support in all views and dialogs, iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility, and various new sorting, grouping and display options for both Contact and Task related views (such as priority indicator, due date, default categories, etc.). An added "services" preference panel allowed users to have the weather location automatically determined, as well as to specify a twitter client for the "share on twitter" functionality.

Last month, the developer rolled out an upgrade to Agendus 1.2. See a comprehensive list of new features and enhancements after the break.

New Features
* Added over-the-air synchronization with Google Calendar. Currently providing an Agenda View and List View, in addition to showing calendar events in the Today View.
* Tasks: Added the ability to "Log to Contact" upon completion when a contact is associated with the task
* Tasks: Added option to delete upon completion
* Today View: Added "Notes" icon which when tapped will take you directly to the notes of the event/task
* Tasks: Added a new option to "Delete Upon Completion"
* Tasks: Added a "Now" button in the due date dialog that appears if the current date is one other than Today
* "New" dialog now offers all record types when invoked from any view
* Task View: Enabled tapping in system bar (where time is) to jump to top when task list is more than one page long
* Added option for user to define which view to start Agendus to

Improvements and Functionality Refinements
* Tasks: Corrected the inability to set due date in the past
* Task View: An applied filter is now remembered/restored upon relaunch following the termination of Agendus
* Note fields: Corrected text being too small
* Weather: Temperature Scale is now set to Fahrenheit by default. If using GPS "Find Me" feature and in location observing Celsius it will be changed automatically.
* Corrected the landscape keyboard not working
* * Weather: Forecast is now updated automatically and immediately if location is changed
* Prefs > Services: Added a label for the Weather location
* Manage Categories: Improved the selection of the color button to invoke the color picker