Description
Alert Notes is a clever little app that automatically turns your notes into reminders. Simply jot down your notes in plain English and it will remind you at the appropriate time. It's universally praised for its simple and elegant interface as seen in AppAdvice, Minimal Mac, The Next Web, the official AppStore twitter account, TiPb, Gearburn (App of the week) and numerous other sites on the web.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
“… a killer reminder app. You tell it what you want and it does the hard work for you.” - Patrick Rhone, minimalmac.com
“Worth every penny! I use it daily.” - Zee M. Kane, CEO, The Next Web
“… it does it with such speed and aplomb that it makes a case for a permanent space on your home screen.” - Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web
“A simple little utility that can definitely help make your life easier.” - Christine Chan, AppAdvice.com
“This intuitive reminder app turns written words into handy alarms. Get @alertnotesapp today.” - Official @AppStore Twitter Account
“Alert Notes is a really great idea that is pulled off superbly and at the moment, a great addition to my productivity folder and something I'm using on a daily, if not hourly, basis.” - Danny Greeff, Gearburn
“This is one of the easiest applications available on the App Store for taking notes and setting reminders … as close as it gets to an Apple native app.” - Techzek.com
DETAILS
This app understands dates, relative dates and phrases that indicate recurring alerts. It's also smart enough to detect email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, URLs, names and initials from your Contacts for quick access later. It's the ideal app to keep all those tidbits you want to be reminded of later.
FEATURE LIST
• Set alerts and reminders using natural language (English only)
• Recurring alerts
• Postpone/Snooze function
• Detects emails, phone numbers, street addresses, URLs, names and initials from your device's Contacts
• Send a text message, initiate a FaceTime call, or share the contact info for detected names and initials
• Fast search that updates as you type
• Full support for landscape mode
• Archiving of past notes
• Persistent alerts mode
• TextExpander support
What's New in Version 1.2.1
✽ CHANGES FOR VERSION 1.2.1 ✽
This update contains all changes from version 1.2 plus additional reliability and compatibility fixes.
• iOS 5 compatibility fixes
• Fixed crash that happened when returning to the main screen from an empty note
• Fixed an issue that prevented some empty notes from being deleted
• Fixed UI issue that forces people to set a future alert date on an expired alert, after accidentally invoking manual alert date selector
• Updated online help with information about improved name detection capabilities added in version 1.2
• Now switches to the main screen before automatically showing the action menu in response to a new alert
• Note title is now always updated after a note's text is changed. It was previously not changed if one chooses to keep the current alert date after editing a note with a relative alert date.
• Fixed occasional UI glitches in landscape mode for iOS 5
• Improved overall UI responsiveness
✽ CHANGES FOR VERSION 1.2 ✽
NEW FEATURES
• Postpone/Snooze feature
• Manual selection of contact entries, if none are detected from a note
IMPROVEMENTS
• iOS 5 compatibility changes
• Faster and more accurate detection of names from your notes. Now detects single name contacts, as well as company only contact entries.
• Will automatically show action menu for the latest alert, when appropriate
• More accurate value for pending alerts app icon badge, specifically when the app is not running
• Revised wording for app icon badge setting to better match standard iOS 5 usage
• Now stops currently playing alert sound when going into background
BUG FIXES
• Improved alert reliability when one has a large number of notes
• Prevent creation of empty note that sometimes get created when the app is terminated while creating a new note
• "Silence" button for persistent alerts now always behaves as expected
• Fixed a bug where the displayed alert time for repeating alerts is sometimes wrong
• Highlighted appearance of a note in the list is now removed after changing a past alert date to a future one
• Always brings back the editable headers in the note editor when resuming from background. It previously does not come back if the app goes into the background while a note's content is being edited.
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Works as advertised!
This app works just as advertised. Just be sure if your note has more than one date/time, the first one is the reminder or you'll have to set the reminder time manually.
- $2.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Oct 24, 2011
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 2.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Felicisimo Domingo
- © 2011 Purkee
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
