by Alex Kac | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion, Releases
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we’ve heard how Apple’s review process is opaque, unfair, arduous,...
by Alex Kac | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Last year we did a survey that gave us a ton of insight into what we were doing well and what we were doing poorly. With those results we designed Informant 4 for iOS and Android, and also version 4.5 a few months later. We really took the results to heart and tried...
by Alex Kac | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Apple is currently having a productivity blowout sale for iOS and OS X. Pocket Informant isn’t on there because we don’t actually have a paid app – its a free app with a trial, and then a premium in-app purchase. In that spirit, we are putting...
by Alex Kac | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Opinion
Chris has spent the week getting ready for his Christmas Eve service as he handles all the lights and production at his church. Wes is ready for some rest 🙂 This week I’ve been working on all the backend registration aspects of PI Desktop as well as its update...
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Back in the summer we talked a little about our Mac Desktop plans and its been awhile so I wanted to give you a status update. Chris has been hard at work on Mac Desktop for almost a year. A lot our iOS code is usable on the Mac, but almost all the UI isn’t....
by Alex Kac | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Featured
One area of marketing that we need to do better in is creating videos to show users how they can use Pocket Informant better than the other apps out there on iOS and Android. We have some videos we made for iOS – mostly as a help tool for support: Quick Entry,...
by Alex Kac | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, Featured
I grew up in New York City and loved being in the City, but when I grew up I moved to the more rural areas of Texas, and now Colorado. However once a year I’ve got to go to a big city and enjoy that life. Its in my blood. A few weeks ago I was blessed to go to...
by Alex Kac | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
iOS 8 has been released today and its a pretty exciting release! For Informant there are some really exciting new features as well – such as the ability to integrate with TouchID, custom alarm actions, Today Widgets, extensions, and more! We’ve been...
by Alex Kac | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured
Its been awhile since our last update and that’s because we’ve been heads down working so hard that frankly getting some air to breathe was hard enough 🙂 So here is a quick message on where we are at: Desktop Informant Chris has continued to work hard on...
by Alex Kac | Jul 19, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Recently I was asked why I spend so much time in the Forums when our customer support team could be doing that instead; honestly I just really enjoy hearing from our customers and working with them on real solutions to their every day problems. That’s what...
by Alex Kac | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Today we released version 4.01 for iOS. You’ll probably see it in your App updates over the next few days. We strongly recommend upgrading from 4.00 to 4.01 as we’ve taken a lot of feedback and support cases and worked hard to make sure that the release...
by Alex Kac | Jun 26, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Releases
We’ve been hard at work on a Mac desktop version of Informant for some time – and we’ve still got a lot of work to do. The Mac version has been our focus for a few different reasons – with a primary reason that we are Mac developers and so...