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By default Pocket Informant is very optimized for performance, however certain data-sets (meaning your PIM data) can cause severe slow-downs on a Windows Mobile device. This is not something we can programatically improve and is usually simply due to the design of Windows Mobile. There are a few things you can do to work-around this.

First lets discuss what types of things can cause severe slowdowns:

• Categories. For each category Pocket Informant has to lookup a separate record in a table. We cache much of this info, but it still can take lots of extra time
• Notes. Pocket Informant has to read a part of each note to see if one really exists or not.
• Recurring data. To properly show calendar entries we have to extrapolate recurring data for each occurrence until today.
  
• Custom Icons.
• Franklin Covey information

In most cases these fields won't cause severe slowdowns, but if you have a lot of this kind of data (say 1000 recurring appointments starting in 1992), that is when this problem occurs.

A few things you can do to speed Pocket Informant up if you fall into the above categories:

1. Turn off icons in settings. Turn off note icons, category icons, etc...
2. Turn off category icons and category colors.
3. Cleanup your appointments database by removing old recurring appts, making existing ones have a newer start date and so on.
   

We will update this article as we document more methods. If these methods don't help, it may simply be that your device is a bit slow in memory access to databases.