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The Contacts (addressbook) application
The Contacts application, analogous to the PalmOS Address Book,
is the most robust, functional, and responsive of the Agenda PIM
applications. That's fortunate, because that's what I rely
on the most. It's quite comparable to the PalmOS Address Book.
I found it a bit slow out-of-the-box, but after I
turned off
syslogd and Launchpad, it became entirely responsive enough for my comfort. I've
got about 600 entries in it.
It's got a bit more functionality than the PalmOS Address Book,
actually: it has more types of phone numbers it supports (e.g.
home fax), has a place for URLs, and supports two addresses per
record rather than just one.
Screenshots
Screenshot 1
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Screenshot 2
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Screenshot 3
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Contacts List
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Contacts Detail
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Contacts Edit
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Bugs and annoyances
Since all the software is GPLed and these sound like fairly small
tweaks, they should be easy to fix.
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Correction: I had written `There's no way I can find to copy-and-paste
text.' That's wrong; typing Control-x, Control-c, and Control-v
perform cut, copy, and paste respectively. Unfortunately, you
can't do that with HWR; you need to use the on-screen keyboard.
Thanks to Enzo Dari for pointing this out to me.
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There's no way to duplicate an entry to create a new-but-similar
one.
It looks like they were thinking of adding this and didn't finish
it, since there's a `New' button when you're viewing a single
address that you'd expect to do something like this, but it just
modifies the current address. There are two other more intuitive
ways to get at the same functionality, so I'm guessing they originally
intended that button to do something different. In Screenshot
2 above, choosing `Modify' from the menu, or tapping anywhere
in the actual contact information, will bring up the same edit
form that tapping `New' will. In any of these three cases,
the edit form is populated with the information from the record
you're looking at, and if you tap Done, it replaces/updates the
record you're looking at. Not a very intuitive thing for the
`New' button to do.
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