Back in June, I played with my brother's HTC Touch for a handful of minutes, and it started me down a road of jealousy induced software upgrades. The most immediate change I made was upgrading to Initiate 3. But I also found myself wishing for a faster and prettier agenda view for my calendar, without sacrificing any of the features of Agendus, or the week's worth of appointments on one screen. Then I discovered 2Day by Shsh.2Day is a today-screen style agenda viewer that provides the user with an absolutely jaw-dropping array of customizing options. Virtually every feature it provides can be tweaked.
With so much flexibility, it was a simple matter to configure 2Day to display a full 7 days of appointments, and all of my tasks (including overdue items, something sadly missing from Agendus's list view) on one screen. And it's much prettier, since it allows me to display a full screen background and doesn't mar that with big blocks of color behind each appointment. Rather than being locked into the Agendus toolbar at the bottom of my screen, I have the ability to choose whatever plugins, toolbars, or alert icons I wish. I've opted for a pretty minimalist approach, with just a couple lines devoted to alerts and related percentages (like battery remaining and memory remaining).
So, how has 2Day diminished the abundant features of Agendus? Well, in almost all respects, it's enhanced it. 2Day respects the extra information that Agendus (or Datebk) plugs into appointments and tasks. It displays icons and colors (appointments display a tiny colored dot beside them, like the built in calendar's agenda view; I have the tasks configured to display a colored outline around the text that corresponds to the category), and it respects (or filters) the strikethrough settings of appointments. Besides calendar/task items, 2Day also queries other apps for alerts. I have it alerting me to new email (Snapper and Versamail), SMS, and voicemail. And despite all this functionality, it still loads faster than Agendus (less than 1 second, compared to Agendus at 2-3 seconds).
2Day also provides a pretty reasonable front end for adding appointments and tasks. It lacks the details of Agendus, but covers all the basics lightning fast. And there's a big button that will transfer you to Agendus to finish editting the appointment or task, if you wish.
2Day can serve as a mini-launcher, with a row or two of app icons, or the i-bar plugin. It can even launch a contact search. However, I've taken advantage of another (better) feature. 2Day can interface with Initiate. As soon as I start typing, it launches an Initiate search. While the transition from 2Day to Initiate takes a second, you can continue typing while between apps, so that you really won't lose any time. By setting both apps with the same background image and basic font/color preferences, it makes a pretty reasonable illusion of all the functionality contained in one unified interface.
Overall, 2Day is phenomenal. It's an enhancement I should have installed months or years ago. It has streamlined much of what was frustrating or annoying about Agendus, without sacrificing any of the features I like.
What's not to like? Only a couple of really minor quirks. 2Day can view the note/details of an appointment or task. It's clean and functional, but pretty ugly. Repeating tasks cannot be marked complete from within 2Day. It will send me to the right place in Agendus to check it off, but it's an added step. 2Day's alarm/timer function is quick and handy, but works by creating an appointment, which I don't like (and is rather inconvenient considering my use of Exchange to sync my Centro to my wife's).
Shsh offers a terrific 30-day full-featured trial of 2Day. Go get it! This is awesome software.