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...

Pocket Informant 3 Android, X-day View

Did you know?? Apart from directly-accessible Day and Week views, it is possible in Pocket Informant 3  to show any number of days (from 1 to 7) in one main view. There are several ways to do this: When in Month View you can tap on any day in month grid and slowly...

Task Entry for Pocket Informant 3 (Android)

  Did you know?? Pocket Informant 3 for Android does not yet offer creating new tasks without leaving the main task view. However there is another way to create new tasks quickly. When you open new task dialog you can enter just one line for the task title. But,...