Your calendar is the backbone of your day — these tips help you get more out of it. From syncing Google, Outlook, and Apple Calendar in one place to customizing views, colors, and widgets, this collection covers the calendar features that keep your schedule accurate and easy to scan at a glance.

Customize Your Calendar Colors in Informant

Did you know that you can customize your calendars to look exactly how you want them? From no nonsense to 1980s makeup colors, you can make your calendar as unique as you are! For iOS, you'll go into [...]

By Jennifer|2026-07-20T06:39:47-06:00February 7, 2022|Calendar Tips|

Tags Youre It — Master Tagging in Informant

Tags are one of the top-level ways of organizing your data in Informant. They are very flexible, and you can use them any way you want to in order to customize your schedule the way you want! To create [...]

By Jennifer|2026-07-20T06:39:46-06:00January 24, 2022|Calendar Tips|

Informant Web Updates — Now with Full Calendaring

Since the last update we posted about in this blog, a lot has been going on in the world of our Informant for Web beta product. We greatly appreciate all of the feedback and bug reports that we've been [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:39:46-06:00January 18, 2022|Calendar Tips|

The Way of the Widget — Customizing Informant Widgets

Widgets are a great way to keep your schedule on track at a glance. Informant's widgets give you a great way to keep up with work meetings, school recitals, and that much needed vacation to Hawaii, all without having [...]

By Jennifer|2026-07-20T06:39:46-06:00January 12, 2022|Calendar Tips|

Subscribed Calendars — How They Work

Whether it's keeping up with your favorite sports team, tracking the phases of the moon, or making sure you never forget National Pancake Day again, Subscribed calendars make it easy to keep track of some of your favorite things. [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:39:44-06:00December 27, 2021|Calendar Tips|

Tips for Using the URL Field in Events & Tasks

The Add URL field within Informant *events and tasks has many ways it can be used. See the following examples: Make a phone call: tel: Eg, tel://4445557777 - when clicked a popup will appear that will ask if [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:39:44-06:00November 22, 2021|Calendar Tips|

Informant for Android — Interface & Day Color Updates

This week with the Android 5.01.62 release we made some updates to the top navbar interface in all calendar views other than Month & Year views. We are working towards making each of our platforms more cohesive and have [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:39:43-06:00July 28, 2021|Calendar Tips|

Informant iOS 5.70/macOS 1.1.23 — Widget & Sync Updates

iOS 5.70 release notes: Some much-requested widget updates have been released All-day events will now display - if more than 3 all-day events it will display 4+ all-day events as a placeholder so that timed events get precedence [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:36:10-06:00June 17, 2021|Blog, Calendar Tips|

iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets — New Informant Experience

2020 was a tough year for the Informant team, and we've had one request from our vocal group of users that has stood out amongst all the others -- home screen widgets. As much as we would have loved [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:35:34-06:00April 20, 2021|Blog, Calendar Tips|

Informant iOS 5.67/macOS 1.1.22 — Subscribed Calendars Are Back

iOS 5.6.7 release notes: Subscribed Calendars are back, you can now connect to non HTTPS webcal links for all your holiday calendars FaceID and Pin Lock now work better than ever Fixes and improvements surrounding backups, a confirmation [...]

By Jen|2026-07-20T06:35:03-06:00March 1, 2021|Blog, Calendar Tips, iOS & macOS Updates|

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