A New Year, A New Chapter…

In the mid-2000s I worked with Franklin Covey on a mutually beneficial partnership that brought Franklin Covey features to Informant and saw Informant distributed with Franklin Covey desktop software. In many ways it was the golden age of Informant as we were at the...

iOS 10 Rich Notifications

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 snooze options and a cleaner looking notification showing...

Informant 5 Dark Mode

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 a red calendar color usable on a dark theme? This...

macOS Sierra and iOS 10 support

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 soon we will be updating all of our software...

All Quiet on the Western Front

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 considered Colorado the “West” and it looks like the US...

Back to School

Remember when school started right after labor day here in the US? I hear that it still does in some parts of the States – but here in Colorado my school-age kids started school last week! I’ve got two boys in college – UCCS and JWU – one in...