Some Tips for Using Informant 5

Here are a few of the common questions that have been coming up regarding navigation to certain features in Informant 5. Where is Settings?  How do I Turn Off “Dark Mode”?  How do I change colors?  How to Setup informant Sync: If you have an existing...

Informant 5 Launch Summary: Comments, Complaints, and Compliments

[This Post has been edited since initial version] Informant 5 is now in iTunes.   (Get it here) We’ve created this blog post as a summary of the feedback that we’ve been getting regarding the new Informant 5 for iOS. You might find this post to be an alternate to...

Informant 5.01 for iOS (Some bug fixes real quick)

[Blog Update Dec 8, 2016: 6pm Central time.  5.01 will be available for download from iTunes by 8am Friday Dec 9 2016] Informant 5 for iOS hit the app store on November 30th, 2016.  As of Dec 5 we have identified the following fixes to be released as part of 5.01...

iOS 10 Rich Notifications

One thing that I think is cool about Informant 5 is our new iOS 10 Rich Notifications. When you get a notification for an event or task – you can force touch on a notification and get several new snooze options and a cleaner looking notification showing...

Informant 5 Dark Mode

Informant 5 has both a light and dark mode. One of the difficulties of a dark mode is that Informant is very heavy on user-selected colors – for example calendar, tag, and individual event/task colors. How do you make a red calendar color usable on a dark theme? This...

macOS Sierra and iOS 10 support

Apple yesterday released iOS 10 and will soon be releasing macOS Sierra At Fanatic we have a history of supporting the current and previous OS and we try to time our updates and versions around these major OS releases. Very soon we will be updating all of our software...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Since I moved to Colorado a few years ago I have never really taken the time to figure out what part of the US we are officially in. Since I’m originally from New York and then Texas, I always considered Colorado the “West” and it looks like the US...

Back to School

Remember when school started right after labor day here in the US? I hear that it still does in some parts of the States – but here in Colorado my school-age kids started school last week! I’ve got two boys in college – UCCS and JWU – one in...