Hot on the heels of Chris’s article yesterday about Pocket Informant being planned for the iPhone comes this news of a Blackberry version being readied for an expected August 2008 release. According to the product page setup at Pocket Informant, the cost is $19.95 ($16.00 for upgrades from competing products) and will require Blackberry OS version 4.1 (or higher).
Features Include
General
* Configurable categories with customizable colors/icons, contacts/events/tasks are assignable to none/one/several categories, color/icon coding of categories in all views
* All items support creating journal entries for them
* Pocket Informant for BlackBerry can either show alarms itself or delegate this task to the local BlackBerry PIM. If it does it itself additionally to the standard PIM options we have configurable Snooze times.
* Pocket Informant for BlackBerry can work as a stand alone application and can sync PIM data from the standard BB PIM (contacts/events/tasks sync can be configured individually and performed either automatically or manually)
* All main UI colors are configurable. This includes current/weekend/weekday colors, header colors, normal/low/high task priority colors etc.
Calendar Events
* Four views: day (two types: classic and simple), week, month and agenda
* Common features: Possibility to show tasks, move events/tasks right from the list view, go to today/date menu commands Day View (Classic): Configurable time scale, configurable all-day/tasks event area
* Week View: Scrolling by week or by day, showing 5/7 days week
* Month View: Displaying events summary in the calendar, detailed view of the selected day (configurable area), optional ability to navigate events of the currently selected day
* Agenda View: Displays configurable number of days, optional headers for empty days
Tasks
* Three views: simple list, tree grouped by status, tree grouped by category
* All support quick search filtering (optional)
* moving tasks to a different date
* Completing tasks
* Additional filtering by category/status
* There is a full support for recurring tasks or events. Additionally for recurring tasks there is an option to configure recurrence rules (new date based on due or completion date) globally or on per-task basis.
Contacts
* One view with quick search filter (optional)
* Direct calling/SMS/emailing
* category filtering
* create event for the contact
* Viewing/Editing contacts support all standard BB contact fields plus many optional fields which correspond to Outlook contact fields
Configuration
* Configurable Keyboard shorrtcuts for:
o Moving to any view
o Creating new items
o Moving events/tasks
o Going to today/next/previous day/week/month
o Configurable Space (scrolling/selecting) and Back (close app, minimize app, go to the previous view) button actions
* There are many optional menu commands: delete/edit/move event or task etc. which are configurable from a special Options category
Pocket Informant for Blackberry product page
