Still NOT FIT FOR SERIOUS USAGE! A promising "toy", ...

IN SHORT:
IMPROVE STABILITY! ADD MULTITASKING WITH AUTOSAVE! WORK ON COMPLETING CURRENT FEATURES! DO NOT ADD ANOTHER LOAD OF FEATURES HALF IMPLEMENTED! MAKE THIS THE KILLER APP IT COULD BE, NOT THE APP KILLER THAT IT IS, NOW! MAKE IT FIT FOR EVERYDAY LIFE AND SERIOUS USAGE! WONT NEED ANOTHER "TOY".
SINCE THEN, ILL BE BACK WITH "miCal" again (less features, done better)!

There are quite some calendar apps on the store. Some lightweight, some feature (over-)loaded. All of those apps (maybe 5 or 6 different) that I tested for myself (iPhone 4, iOS 5.01, Exchange account) - except of a single one (that is: "miCal") - suffer from a range of problems that renders them USELESS in the end. Each and every of them, no matter how promising they were in the beginning.

And that is exactly where my worries with "Extreme Agenda" issue from, althoug this app has been improved by large with the current version (i.e. 3.0. It pisses me off even more though, knowing what EA COULD BE, but isnt):

1. STABILITY: Still crashes too often! WORK in progress is LOST, each time it crashes. AND: memory leakage. It does not free any memory when it crashed => a huge reduction in free memory (about 150 to 200 MB)! NO GO!

2. NO MULTITASKING: Each time, when the app is switched to the background and then brought to the foreground again, it starts off from whatever view was last active, BUT: again, work in progress is lost each time! AND EVEN WORSE: every single notification that shows up through iOS brings "Extreme Agenda" in the background momentarily and then when the notification is closed, it comes up like if it was switched to the background manually. WORK LOST! NO SAVE OF WORK IN PROGRESS! STUPID!

3. FEATURE MISMANAGEMENT: "Extreme Agenda" is an integrated application of big proportions and feature rich as well. While most of these features are very useful, there is an inbalance: some VERY important features (e.g. contacts linking, address book, task management) are only implemented basically with serious shortcomings, other rather minor features are there full blown (e.g. 4 levels of sensitivity: normal, personal, private, confidential) with no equivalent benefits from it.

4. USER INTERFACE: Its OK for the main part. BUT: the background and foreground colors do not go together well in some parts of this app (e.g.: try to read the text input of an event, with one of the darker background colors. It sucks!). This needs to be fine tuned with usability in mind, first and foremost! Sometimes less (colors on one page) is more!

I could go on forever, bringing up a list of some 20 big points. Maybe Ill send it in to the Birdsoft support, someday. For now, I hope that Birdsoft will concentrate on the core problems of this app and improve it, so that it is a helper rather than a nuissance in everyday life. Otherwise, Ill skip this app, completely.

Hundertneunzehn about Extreme Agenda, v3.0