jeromecarney
December 22nd, 2006, 08:21 AM
I can't tell you how pleased I am with the interface. You've already managed to pack into the WM version so many things I love about the look and feel of AW Outlook Edition. Congrats on getting off to a great start.
I'm especially diggin' the clean, multi-tabbed layout of the entry dialogues. They're so much more ergonomic than either the native apps or what PocketInformant or Agenda Fusion have been able to achieve. And how amazing to have contact history alreay integrated in the beta! I wan't expecting to see that unto Version 2.0. It looks like Agendus WM is gonna be a major contender right off the bat.
Other posters have already brought up the major issues you'll need to attend to before product launch, so I'm gonna focus on a seemingly small fix that's urgently needed.
You see, I laughed when I saw that in the WM edition's contact dialogue there is a single "Title" field showing "salutation" (i.e., Mr., Ms.) rather than position (i.e., Vice President, Senior Engineer), whereas the desktop edition's single "Title" field shows the opposite. THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE FOR BUSINESS USERS and this I really want to see Iambic fix this A.S.A.P., both on the Desktop and in the new WM release.
I'm a marketing/sales executive, but I'm also a big geek. I've been very influential over the years at convincing my own organization to adopt key softwares, and I've also had great success in recommending softwares to my numerous clients and associates over the years.
The Agendus Contact dialogue must support both a "Salutation" field and a "Position" field before I'll ever be able to recommend your software to anyone. I know this seems like a nitpick issue in light of the tremendous feature set you offer, and I know that technically there's a work-around by using the native Outlook dialogues, but the Agendus dialogues are so much more intuitive and streamlined, that I want to be able to stay wholly within the Agendus interface.
But right now I can't. As a marketing executivie, I live and die by my contacts. I use automation softwares (CardScan, Anagram) for a lot of data entry, but I still enter a fair share of contacts manually. So that means I:
crack open an Agendus contact dialogue entry, fill it out, close and save;
open Agendus preferences to enable Outlook dialogues
switch to the Outlook contact interface, look up the new contact and open it
type 4 little keys, which is very often: M-R-Period-Spacebar
close and save Outlook, return to Agendes
open Agendus preferences and disable Outlook dialogues
I absolutely HATE this routine. I love Agendus, but several times a day, I hate, loathe and despise this inane, unnecessarily frustrating routine. And this is why I never recommend Agendus to other business users, except for the few who, like me, are big enough geeks to put up with this routine.
Even though 75 - 80 % of my communication is over email, I still send letters, faxes, packages, formal invitations, etc., all of which usually require a traditional contact addess block, including "Salutation" and "Position".
So I'm begging you: Please implement support for both "Salutation" and "Position" fields in both Outlook and WM editions. Please don't get so lost adding sexy new elaborate features that you lose sight of doing the basic, critical stuff the right way.
Otherwise: bravo, kudos, applause for the tremendous job you're doing.
I'm especially diggin' the clean, multi-tabbed layout of the entry dialogues. They're so much more ergonomic than either the native apps or what PocketInformant or Agenda Fusion have been able to achieve. And how amazing to have contact history alreay integrated in the beta! I wan't expecting to see that unto Version 2.0. It looks like Agendus WM is gonna be a major contender right off the bat.
Other posters have already brought up the major issues you'll need to attend to before product launch, so I'm gonna focus on a seemingly small fix that's urgently needed.
You see, I laughed when I saw that in the WM edition's contact dialogue there is a single "Title" field showing "salutation" (i.e., Mr., Ms.) rather than position (i.e., Vice President, Senior Engineer), whereas the desktop edition's single "Title" field shows the opposite. THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE FOR BUSINESS USERS and this I really want to see Iambic fix this A.S.A.P., both on the Desktop and in the new WM release.
I'm a marketing/sales executive, but I'm also a big geek. I've been very influential over the years at convincing my own organization to adopt key softwares, and I've also had great success in recommending softwares to my numerous clients and associates over the years.
The Agendus Contact dialogue must support both a "Salutation" field and a "Position" field before I'll ever be able to recommend your software to anyone. I know this seems like a nitpick issue in light of the tremendous feature set you offer, and I know that technically there's a work-around by using the native Outlook dialogues, but the Agendus dialogues are so much more intuitive and streamlined, that I want to be able to stay wholly within the Agendus interface.
But right now I can't. As a marketing executivie, I live and die by my contacts. I use automation softwares (CardScan, Anagram) for a lot of data entry, but I still enter a fair share of contacts manually. So that means I:
crack open an Agendus contact dialogue entry, fill it out, close and save;
open Agendus preferences to enable Outlook dialogues
switch to the Outlook contact interface, look up the new contact and open it
type 4 little keys, which is very often: M-R-Period-Spacebar
close and save Outlook, return to Agendes
open Agendus preferences and disable Outlook dialogues
I absolutely HATE this routine. I love Agendus, but several times a day, I hate, loathe and despise this inane, unnecessarily frustrating routine. And this is why I never recommend Agendus to other business users, except for the few who, like me, are big enough geeks to put up with this routine.
Even though 75 - 80 % of my communication is over email, I still send letters, faxes, packages, formal invitations, etc., all of which usually require a traditional contact addess block, including "Salutation" and "Position".
So I'm begging you: Please implement support for both "Salutation" and "Position" fields in both Outlook and WM editions. Please don't get so lost adding sexy new elaborate features that you lose sight of doing the basic, critical stuff the right way.
Otherwise: bravo, kudos, applause for the tremendous job you're doing.