Windows Phone Thoughts: Built for Need: Agenda Fusion 7

Figure 3: Agenda Fusion 7 supports a visual breakdown of your day by the hour.

So Many Features, So Little Time
For the sake of doing justice to all the features of Agenda Fusion 7, I cannot spend an inordinate amount of time babbling about each feature, but my purpose is to provide an idea of the many things that it has to offer. Aside from the items that I have mentioned already, Agenda Fusion 7 provides support of configuration and customization of tabs and tab views which enable the user to decide how and what information will be presented. Multiple calendar views allow the user to view the calendar for the entire year, or zoom in to an hourly view of a particular day. Fusion Utilities provides support for voice notes which can have written notes attached and can be saved as part of meeting notes, a reminder, or simply a voice memo to yourself. View tabs for calendars, for example, can also be mapped to buttons on the Pocket PC for quickly opening a particular view that is referenced often. Entering appointments or modifying/adding/deleting appointments works in the same way that the appointment minder that is built into Windows Mobile operating system works, so there's no learning curve, there. Significant days in the "Year View" of the calendar, such as deadlines, birthdays, or that all-important wedding anniversary, can be highlighted very easily. Alternatively, Agenda Fusion 7 supports a "show birthdays/anniversary" feature that will not only remind you of such dates, but it will indicate the years being celebrated.


Figure 4: Significant days for the entire year are viewable in the calendar view.


Figure 5: Although Agenda Fusion 7 provides a format, within the program, that resembles the Today screen, this view is not actually the Today screen of the Pocket PC.

I wish that Agenda Fusion 7 had a Today screen plug-in or view on the existing Today screen, but it doesn't include one. Developer One has, however, created a view that resembles the Today screen, and they even provide instructions on how to make the Agenda Fusion 7 "Today view" look like the Pocket PC's Today screen. Another feature that I liked, included in the Fusion Utilities, is called "Fusion Find." As the name implies, it is a search tool that searches all fusion items, and displays the information associated with that item, when it is located. For someone with an extensive list of people, items, or projects, this is a time-saving feature that also allows filtering, and is, therefore, invaluable for someone with many entries to sift through.