State of Informant — Part 1
Ok, so perhaps it's not quite as exciting as a "State of the Union", but after I wrote my first draft, it was just about as long...so I broke this up into two parts. By now, Informant 5.01 has been [...]
iOS 10 Rich Notifications — Enhanced Productivity
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 [...]
Informant 5 — Wow! The Community Response
Wow! What a response! Our customers are fantastic. Truly special. I'm honored to be working with Chris, Tabetha, Keith, and Wesley to make this release a fantastic one. Yes, there are a few bugs - there always are. Chris [...]
Informant 5 Pricing & Launch Date — Official Announcement
Wow - there has certainly been a lot of discussion about the pricing on Informant 5. We have announced that we are moving to a subscription model and we had a lot of feedback. While many were very supportive (thank you [...]
Informant 5 Launch — New Features, Look & Sync Upgrades
Informant 5. It's the Excalibur of Informant! The mythical major update we've been talking about for about 2 years now - and yes, it's no more a myth! In the next couple weeks, we'll be releasing Informant 5 and [...]
Informant 5 — Dark Mode Is Finally Here!
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 [...]
macOS Sierra & iOS 10 — Informant Compatibility Guide
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 [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front — Informant Team Update
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 [...]
WWDC Recap — Informant for OS X & iOS Highlights
WWDC WWDC 2016 is done and gone and finally a week after its been done I've been able to pick through all the relevant info and get a good feel on what we need to do to move forward. [...]
Evernote Sync — Challenges, Fixes & Lessons Learned
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 [...]