Informant is my Personal Trainer
This year marked a milestone birthday for me. I won’t name the age, but it begins with a four and ends with a zero. I’m not afraid of aging; I plan to do it gracefully. Well, at least as [...]
My Boat is Syncing When I’m Backing it Up
Syncing does not apply to ships and backing up is not what happens to your sewer in the world of Informant! In support on a regular basis we see cases where customers are referring to using Informant and the [...]
Why I Recommend TextExpander
I’ve been using TextExpander since at least 2009 (that’s the earliest receipt I can find right now) and its one of the first apps that I install on my Mac because of how important it is to my personal [...]
Introducing FollowUp
FollowUp is a new app for Android smartphones, made to automate handling communicating tasks. For example, you read your email messages and want to create tasks to reply to some of them. Before, you needed to select email subject, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]