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In this July 2008 Edition of the WebIS Newsletter:

  • Pocket Informant 8.1 for Windows Mobile Released!
  • Pocket Informant for BlackBerry Information
  • Pocket Informant for iPhone Product Page Revealed!
  • Note2Self for iPhone Product Page and Release!

 Pocket Informant 8.1 for Windows Mobile

Pocket Informant 8.1 has been released and offers many months of refinement, improvements, and some major new features:

  • NEW! 12-Key Pad for Contacts Searching makes finding Contacts easier and faster - all without using the stylus!
  • NEW! Rewritten Contacts View with blazing fast performance using our two-phase Contacts Display
  • NEW! Major improvements to the Events View offering groupings
  • NEW! Major improvements to the Journal View
  • NEW! Rewritten Touch modes for silky smooth touch and natural iPhone-like scrolling
  • NEW! Major Smartphone improvements with usability, shortcuts, Links tab, Default Number support, default input settings, and more!
  • You can find more changes, bug fixes, and improvements listed at our What's New Page.

Pocket Informant® 8 brings a new level of ease of use to your mobile device. Search your Contacts with the innovative 12-Key Search Pad, scale your feature interface needs using our Roles including a "Pocket Outlook with Benefits Role". A near fully one handed interface lets you use Pocket Informant® without ever touching the stylus - or if you prefer finger control Pocket Informant® brings finger touch scrolling, a touch ABC bar in Contacts, and new finger friendly time pickers.

If you currently own any version of Pocket Informant 8 you can get a free upgrade simply by downloading the new version over the existing one. If you have any previous version of Pocket Informant, simple take a look at our upgrade page to check availability.


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 Pocket Informant for BlackBerry

The BlackBerry is continuing to gain ground and we've got a very exciting release of Pocket Informant for BlackBerry coming this August 2008. Some of the reasons straight from our beta tester's emails on why you should be intersted in Pocket Informant for BlackBerry:

  • "...with PIBB I have already seen an increase in my productivity over using the built-in apps. I sort tasks by category and can more quickly move due dates, which is essential to me."
  • "In the built-in PIM, tasks are nearly impossible to use in any normal fashion, and yet with PIBB, someone who is a proponent of the GTD system can use the Tasks implementation very effectively."
  • "The Agenda view gives me everything I need to see on one screen to get a snapshot of my day -- and not just my day *today* but any day I choose, past, present or future. With the built-in PIM in the Blackberry, I found myself missing appointments or forgetting events that were coming up on future dates, as well as having a difficult time managing tasks in any coherent fashion. With PIBB, I am able to manage my day more effectively, including the many events and tasks I have on my schedule."
  • "Clean integration of tasks and events on a per day basis, in a single view. Today view showing me my events, tasks, and overdue tasks on today. Quick menu shortcuts to move tasks or events to a different day, including quick selections to today, tomorrow, etc.Use of category icons and colors to quickly scan your list of events and tasks. Task grouping view to neatly arrange your tasks and browse them: by category and by status. Keyboard shortcuts between views ."
  • "Nothing else available for BlackBerry integrates schedules, tasks and contacts in a visually appealing way."
  • "I've been using PIM applications on Macintosh, Windows Mobile, Palm and BlackBerry for years, and Pocket Informant integrates everything I need to manage my day in an easy-to-use package that is with me wherever I go. If you have a BlackBerry, you need Pocket Informant. "

We've got some great feedback and we've made Pocket Informant 1.0 for BlackBerry a really productive tool. Our current goal is to ship in late August of 2008.


 Pocket Informant for iPhone

Pocket Informant for the iPhone will be a major release for WebIS. We are still some months away from a beta and subsequent release, but we wanted to let you know about it. When we set out to design our iPhone version we sat down and designed an application that iPhone users could love. To be honest we are Apple fans here - all of our desktops, laptops are Macs; our servers are XServes; some of us have even worked at Apple in the past (recently and from the past)! So we know what Mac OS X users like, expect, and deserve. As such Pocket Informant for the iPhone is focused on making productivity fun and easy, yet focused.

Some of the features we have working now as well as still planned for 1.0 include:

General
  • Integrated Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Search
  • Customizable Settings
  • Category Colors and Icons
  • Over the air sync (1.0 or 1.1 feature - pushing hard for 1.0)
  • Journaling (1.1 feature)
  • Push Notifications of Alarms
Calendar
  • Calendar with Agenda, Day, Week, and Month Views
  • Filmstrip Calendar View in Landscape mode takes advantage of the landscape orientation to see your schedule details
  • Inline Details of each day in the Month provides makes it much easier to read what your schedule is on any given day
  • Time Bars to quickly show your availability
  • Quickly Slide between months with your finger
  • Zoom into a month
  • Drag and Drop Time/Date of appointments
Tasks
  • Full Featured Task Management
  • Default Smart Groups for All, Overdue, Due Today
  • Customizable Smart Groups
Contacts
  • Coverflow Contacts
  • Picture List of Contacts
  • Group by Company
  • Create Appointments from a Contact

We know many of our customers are waiting for Pocket Informant for the iPhone. We get comments like "If PI does for the iPhone what it did for Win Mobile, then there will be no device that could possibly keep up! Even a Winmobile device with PI wont be as good". To get notified about Pocket Informant for the iPhone's beta and release, please visit our product page and sign up!


 Note2Self Coming soon to the Apple App Store!

As wonderful as our iPhones are, they still lack an easy way to create actionable items with the most natural method of output we have: our voice.

Note2Self lets you record voice notes and save them in a Saved Notes list and/or send them to a preset email address without having to select a contact, type text, or any other distraction that could prove dangerous or difficult to do.

Start Note2Self. Bring it up to your ear and start talking. Bring it back down in front of you and the recording stops and is saved or emailed automatically. It's a one-trick pony, but it's a really useful trick. Only on the iPhone.

For many of us, email is our "to-do list". If I have an email sitting in my Inbox, I can take action on it. The key to having Note2Self unlock your productivity is to have it be incredibly streamlined and focused.

We've submitted Note2Self to the Apple App Store and are waiting for it to be approved for purchase. Note2Self costs $4.99 USD and works really really well on the iPhone. Check out the website showing Note2Self in action in QuickTime. Watch the Animated GIF on the right for a small brief glimpse.


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