Pocket Informant (Calendar, Todos, GTD, Franklin Covey)
Published by: Web Information Solutions, Inc.
Current Version: 1.11 released 2009-03-27
Price: 12.99
Category: Productivity
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If the iPhone calendar and sheer absence of built-in task management leave you wanting more, check out Pocket Informant from WebIS. It is a well thought out application, adapted nicely to the iPhone. Despite some performance issues and a (current) lack of functionality compared to the more mature versions of PI that exist on other platforms, its active development ensures that this will not be the case for long.
App Description
Pocket Informant is an integrated calendaring and GTD-based tasks solution for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Our purpose is to fuse together best-of-class calendaring with best-of-class tasks into one great solution. We've had been carefully crafting new versions and each version has had many major new features and we've got so much more coming! Here are some of our top current features:
- Push Alarms for events and to dos straight to your phone! (Touch users require WiFi access)
- A calendar built the way an iPhone Calendar should be
- Today, Month, Day, Week, Agenda, to do, and Search views
- Swipe between Months, Days, and Weeks
- Easily jump to any date in Day and Month views
- Timebars to show your free/busy time at a glance or show mini-text on the month cells instead
- Calendar Filtering: One or multiple calendars being filtered
- Expanded detail view to see events and todos on any day
- Phone Links in Notes
- Todos integrated in the Calendar Views ( show in-progress or due today, completed or not)
- to do Grouping and QuickSearch/Insert
- Full Search of Contacts, Todos, and Calendar items
- Send Appointment Meeting Requests
- Getting-Things-Done (GTD) management or Franklin Covey ABC/1-99 Prioritization of Todos
- Filters to quickly find active, due, undated, overdue, and completed Todos
- Today View to show your current appointments, Todos and meeting attendees
- Starring/Flagging Todos
- Many options to configure First Day of week, ISO Week Numbers, which calendars to sync, Mini-text/timebars/numbers month, default task settings, past appointment style, colors, app badge, etc...
Syncing:
- Auto sync syncs changes immediately up to the server and new items from the server every 45 minutes (while PI is running or next time it runs)
- Syncs with Google Calendar and Toodledo
- Calendar Data is separate from the built-in Calendar
- Information on *coming* Desktop Outlook/Exchange/Desktop Mac Synching: http://tinyurl.com/webissync
HOW DOES THIS DIFFER FROM OTHER to do MANAGERS?
Proper to do management is essential, but its only part of the picture.
Pocket Informant is a full featured PIM, so it lets you focus on everything you do in a day - not just your to do list. We believe bringing your appointments and todos together in one place is more efficient than working in isolated calendar and to do management systems. Pocket Informant is designed to not force you into any one method of doing things - use our to do View as rigidly or freely as you want, using GTD principles, Franklin Covey, or your own system.
WHY DO I NEED THIS WHEN I HAVE A CALENDAR?
We love our iPhones, but we saw some untapped potential for a full-featured PIM. Pocket Informant fills that gap. To start with, we made navigation very natural - simply swipe between the months, or tap the month name to jump to a new date. For those of us who have several events in a day, we built a time bar so you can see how your day is blocked off at a glance. When looking at a days activities, we show you your appointments AND todos together, and we give you nearly the entire screen to see them. We offer a convenient view to quickly see activities going on "today", and we built a great week view as well.
For years, these and numerous other features have made Pocket Informant a must-have application for school teachers, soccer moms, salesmen and executives alike.
If you are a user of Pocket Informant from another platform, be sure to note that while we have crafted the iPhone version from the same stock, it is a different application. Check our website to vote on your most desired features, and follow us on Twitter to provide feedback and see what we're up to all from our website.
Localizations: English only at this time, other languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian) later this year
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