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.

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|

How to Sign into Gmail in Pocket Informant

In a browser, go to your Google Account and select Manage your Google Account Select the Security tab. Turn on 2-Step Verification (which generates a new section, App Passwords). Then tap App Passwords Select Mail and iPhone from the [...]

By Liz|2026-07-20T06:34:27-06:00August 24, 2020|Blog, Calendar Tips|

Informant Sync Maintenance — What to Expect

Informant Sync Scheduled Maintenance: Starting August 21, 2020 at 8pm MST (UTC-6), Informant Sync was in system maintenance. The Informant Sync services were unavailable for approximately 12 hours.[Status Update: This maintenance window is completed] We are anticipating another [...]

By Liz|2026-07-20T06:20:01-06:00August 3, 2020|Blog, Calendar Tips|

Google OAuth Issues — How to Reconnect Your Account

July 24, 2020 We are currently aware and dealing with issues affecting Pocket Informant iOS/Mac sync with Google Calendar, Google Tasks, and the "Sign In with Google". This is also affecting Google Tasks on Pocket Informant Android. We are [...]

By Keith|2026-07-20T06:41:07-06:00July 30, 2020|Calendar Tips|

Pocket Informant for Android — The Update You’ve Waited For

*Due to customer feedback, we released the update as a new app so that people can have a choice between sticking with the old version. For quite some time, we’ve told you that we’d be working on an [...]

By Liz|2026-07-20T06:33:55-06:00July 1, 2020|Android Tutorials & Updates, Blog, Calendar Tips|

Time Picker 2018 — Faster, Simpler Scheduling

Time Picker Changes Coming to Informant 5 for iOS If you have followed the posts here you may recall that we released a new date picker and time picker with Informant 5.00. While both were very innovative and had some [...]

By Keith|2026-07-20T06:33:04-06:00February 25, 2018|Blog, Calendar Tips, Productivity Planning|

Printable Calendar — Bring Productivity Offline

Do you want a printable calendar in Informant for macOS? Printing has been one of the popular request for Informant for macOS and we have promised "print" would be included as part of an Informant for macOS 1.0 release. [...]

By Keith|2026-07-20T06:32:34-06:00August 22, 2017|Blog, Calendar Tips|

New watchOS App — Informant 5 on Your Wrist

Summary: Utah based Fanatic Software today announces Pocket Informant 5.11, the latest update to their award-winning app for iOS and Android devices. Informant 5 is a cross-platform planner app that combines your Calendar, Tasks, Projects, and Notes into a single [...]

By Keith|2026-07-20T06:28:23-06:00June 22, 2017|Calendar Tips, iOS & macOS Updates, Press Releases|

The View Picker Debate — What’s Best for Users?

[Updates added June 18, 2017: We want to thank the users who participated in the comments on this blog. We have made some decisions & put some of them into a beta with new view picker iterations. See this video [...]

By Keith|2026-07-20T06:29:53-06:00June 13, 2017|Blog, Calendar Tips, Developer Diary|

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