Informant Is My Personal Productivity 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 Apple Watch and Me — Productivity on My Wrist
Straight up - I'm not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA - the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches [...]
Doing What Google Likes — Our SEO Evolution
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we've heard how Apple's review process [...]
Why We’re Changing Forum Software (and What It Means)
We currently use Invision Power Board (IPB) for our forum software. Its been great, but its also been a headache for us since we'd rather focus on developing software than maintaining it. One thing that's kept us from moving [...]
Teaser Shots of Desktop Informant for OS X — A Sneak Peek
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I'm not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo [...]
Why I Recommend TextExpander — Productivity Boost for Informant Users
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 — Smarter Task & Reminder Management
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, [...]
Informant Beacon Orders Are Shipping — Here’s What to Expect
We are physically shipping Informant Beacon orders today. We were about a week delayed from our original schedule because we're new at this and we flubbed a few things in getting the beacons in to us, but we got [...]
Thinking Desktop? Why a Desktop Version of Informant Makes Sense
We've been hard at work on a Mac desktop version of Informant for some time - and we've still got a lot of work to do. The Mac version has been our focus for a few different reasons - [...]
17 Years of Pocket Informant — A Journey Through Time
WebIS was founded in June of 1997 - its been 17 years. Wow. I have been going to meetings hosted by partners for developers since 2001. It started off with Handango who was one of the biggest app stores during that [...]