iOS Informant 4.01 Submitted to Apple

Wow – we’ve really excited about the release of version 4.0! The amount of great positive feedback we’ve received from users and from people trial-ing the Premium features has been astounding. Some of the most positive feedback we received was over...

Let’s look at Informant for Android

We recently release Informant 4 for iOS and we’ve gotten a really great reaction to it. So what about Android?! We’ve recently released a pretty substantial update for Android that added: Task and Note view redesign Optional Franklin Covey task priorities...

17 years of business…

WebIS was founded in June of 1997 – its been 17 years. Wow. I have been going to meetings hosted by partners for developers since 2001. It started off with Handango who was one of the biggest app stores during that time, then became Microsoft, and then Apple...

My Favorite thing so far at WWDC

I’m in San Francisco doing some meetings and taking in some parties – note these are work parties, but I do get some good food and drink. One thing that kept coming up constantly was: What was your favorite announcement at WWDC? I always ask them in what...

Informant on iOS 8

We’re really excited about iOS 8 and all of the great features that we get from it however it’s important to remember that iOS 8 is not only in beta – it’s the first beta which means that it’s the buggiest release of Apple’s betas....

iOS 8 and Yosemite

Today’s announcement made me very happy. I sat here in the Austin office watching the keynote via our AppleTV with Chris and furiously wrote notes on what the developments mean to us. For OS X the changes meant that PI for Desktop is going to look and behave...

Quick Move for Events and Tasks (Android)

One of the new features of the recently released Pocket Informant version 3.33 is a Quick Move feature for events and tasks. Long tap on an item in Calendar or Task view and you see the following popup-menu.     The row of icons below the “Move”...

Sorting Tasks in PI3 for Android

Everyone has their own way of managing things, and sorting tasks exactly to your specifications can sometimes be a bit tricky.  Some apps allow sorting by one field only (usually by date), others offer two or three levels of sorting (for example, if tasks have the...

PI3 Android – Backup and Data Transfer

Pocket Informant 3 for Android has been designed with its own backup module. You can use it to keep a safe copy of your data, store reference settings before changing them, or to transfer data and/or settings from one device to another. By default a new backup file is...

PI Online and Heartbleed (SSL vulnerability)

There has been a lot of news of late about the SSL vulnerability called “Heartbleed”.  The good news is that Pocket Informant Online (soon to be renamed Informant Sync) runs on Google’s App Engine servers and has been patched....

PI3 Android – Navigation Between Dates

All Pocket Informant calendar views have a current date, or date range, displayed in them, and there are several different ways to navigate to a different date; some more obvious and some that are not as well known. Let’s discuss several of them. In day and week view...