by Alex Kac | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Mac Desktop
We added Evernote integration to Informant years ago on mobile and we are now adding it to our Desktop version. This has been one of our biggest engineering projects in a year because we couldn’t use any of the old mobile code for Evernote on OS X. The Evernote...
by Alex Kac | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Opinion
The App Economy There has been much said recently about the state of the Apple App Market (sample here, and here, and here). Frankly, it sucks. The truth is that there simply is not enough market to continue a business based on “volume” or new customers....
by Alex Kac | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
I am excited to talk a bit about what we have been working on over the last few months. I know we’ve be very quiet especially on Informant for OS X and so I want to get my head up, take a breath, look around and share with you what’s going on.About a month...
by Alex Kac | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
I’ve been working on Informant 5.0 for a long time – mostly as part of our Mac Desktop version and also designing new refreshed interfaces throughout. I try really hard not to provide any timelines on major releases like this because in all the wobbly...
by Alex Kac | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Mac Desktop, Opinion
In the next OS X version, Apple is adding a new ability to import Evernote into Apple Notes. This is really interesting because the Apple Notes app is actually pretty good in El Capitan. In general, I prefer using Evernote because the notes are available to Informant...
by Alex Kac | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
To be honest, Pocket Informant 4.80 took up a lot more of my time than I expected. I originally expected 4.8 to be a small 4.7x bug-fix to make sure that Informant ran well on iOS 9. As time went on, I found that even though the programming interfaces in iOS 9...
by Alex Kac | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
We have recently soft-released Desktop Informant Milestone 6 and with that came a change to how Inbox works that is also coming to Pocket Informant on iOS in version 4.8. This change reverts a behavior to that which we originally had, and that which we believe is...
by Alex Kac | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary
Its no secret that I’ve been working on Informant 5 for awhile now. Its still very much in-progress with a dramatically reworked … well everything. My plan for 4.74 was simply to fix bugs and make sure it worked well on iOS 9. For example I wasn’t going to...
by Alex Kac | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Mac Desktop
My Point of View I’ve been working in the mobile space since 2000 at least, and so much of my mindset is definitely on how to design and build mobile apps. With Desktop Informant we’ve stepped into the more powerful and less-restrictive space of desktop...
by Alex Kac | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
We are about near the end of our beta testing of Watch Informant – and its an exciting time! This sunday I fly to San Francisco and sit in line for 10 hours to get into the Apple Keynote (I know I don’t have to – but I really enjoy meeting other...
by Alex Kac | Apr 29, 2015 | Developer Diary, Featured
I have always grown up with the idea of using an analog timepiece is far preferable to the digital. Aesthetically I have always preferred the analog: I love the round physicality of space that shows where I am in the day; the beautiful type of the numbers; the smooth...
by Alex Kac | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
One of the most difficult aspects of user interface design is figuring out how much content to put on the screen. There’s a balance between showing enough useful at-a-glance information versus white space to make it more aesthetically pleasing and easier to...
