If you have been following the previous posts you will know that we have spent a good deal of time polishing up Informant 5 for iOS (5.0 – 5.03). Here is the latest release 5.04. This is an “extra” release from what we had previously announced. Free for existing Informant 5 owners, this is a paid upgrade for Informant 4.94 users.
Available in Apple’s App Store as of: March 17, 2017
Here is what is included in Informant 5 for iOS 5.03• When you include the “Tasks Completed” section on Focus View, it now shows up for past dates as well (it used to only show on “today”)
• Substantial performance improvements when handling a lot of Apple Calendar data. This is especially evident on Month View and Year View
• Fixed regression in 5.03 that caused Agenda View navigation to not behave properly when it contained dates that spanned a Daylight Savings Time transition
• Fixed regression in 5.03 that would cause crash when editing Franklin Covey Priorities
• Fixed crash that would sometimes occur in focus view when changing days
• Fixed long-standing crash that might occur if you changed from one calendar view to another while data was still loading
• Fixed crash when adding alarms to an event on an Exchange calendar
• Location alarms should now fire more appropriately based on whether they are set to fire when “Arriving” or “Leaving” a location
• Many actions would not work correctly when force-touching a search result
• When you used a force-touch action to change the project on a task, the change might not have been immediately reflected on screen
• Force-touch-email was broken for tasks
• The image picker/previewer that slides up when you tap on the image attachments in an event/task popover was not properly showing the image thumbnails
• Duplicating an occurrence of a repeating event no longer puts the recurrence rule on the new duplicate event – it now just duplicates that one occurrence (this behavior is the more common expectation).
• The order of “scope options” now makes more sense when deleting an occurrence of a repeating event
• Fixed a couple consistency & usability issues related to the date/time picker
• When you edit an Exchange event, the “1 alarm limit” is immediately applied in the editor
• Fixed some internal data handling issues – especially when sending data to the widget
• A few minor cosmetic improvements
• The button to show customers how to set up Outlook Sync now works again and points to a new webpage we have set up
You might wish to consider offering a 1-month trial to PI 4.94 users. This would earn you more positive reviews, if the noted bugs have indeed been squashed.
What is “The button to show customers how to set up Outlook Sync now works again and points to a new webpage we have set up?”
Just wonder does it relate to local synchronization with Outlook? It has been terminated long times ago and advised using gSyncit.
I think you should look at the responses to your Facebook post “celebrating your 8th Anniversary”
None are celebratory. The last one sounds prophetic – “It will end soon!”
Long-time user with frustrations, I have tried 13 different task managers over the past several weeks and cannot get away from I5. I think everything is settling down and “came back” after finding nothing that is better for me. There are still a few issues, but my faith in the company’s ability to get things right has been restored. Keep plugging along guys (and girl(s))… Looking forward to 5.1.
Thanks for continuing to do the work. Still haven’t fixed my issues. I’ll stay on 4.94 a little longer.
but it has fixed the AppStore star rating (at least for the moment)………..
I can confirm that the Complete Tasks in Focus view bug is fixed.
Are the widget issues set to be fixed in 5.1? – Complete / View is unresponsive; ‘Unable to load’;
Widget freezes. I have at least eleven daily recurring tasks. Maybe this number is too high for the widget to handle?
I’m so relieved this update is “Free for existing Informant 5 owners,…” Considering the price I paid for moving from 4.94 to 5.0, I’d say moving into 5.04 likely has a market value of ~$64.
You really should stop giving away such value!
You are paying for the privilege of a journey into a brave new world, to be guinea pigs, since paying customers are more discriminatory critics than unpaid beta testers.
I love these comparisons. http://staging.pocketinformant.com/app-comparison/
The current Omnifoucus 2 is a Universal app (only the legacy iPhone version was not).
You might want to add BusyCal. It is also for macOS but even better, it is updated on a regular base. Fantastical for Mac too !
There is no need to subscribe to a calendar. Via “webcal.fi” you simply install a new calendar named Weather. Only for 5 days and not 10 but for free! Works with any calendar app
I note that you are using the iOS 10.3 Developer Response feature to respond to your AppStore critics. A suggestion, please consider drafting your response in a word processor. It will allow you to check your grammar and spelling.
“I’m not a big fan of (investing in) subscription services, that’s just a tough business”
Mark Cuban
From a self made Billionaire, I’d say that is sage advice. Like his politics or not, his business acumen is solid.
Now that v5 is in a usable state, it’s time to revisit the elephant in the room. That most have parted ways with this product is an understatement. Now that 5.1 might be here in a month or two (with new date picker), what’s your long term prognosis on keeping the few remaining customers?
I thought that the “user unfriendly” date picker would be “fixed” in I5.1. Today, I note that you are asking your Twitter followers if they have “gotten used” to the I5 offering. Another let down in the works?
Haven’t a FB or twitter account, so I write it here.
In my opinion, the new-proposed datepicker is better. But actually I cannot care, since I will not use the informant 5, as long as a subscription is necessary. Sorry guys!