Fixed issue where resetting a device's privacy setting can permanently disable the app's access to your contacts
Fixed random crash triggered by tapping a note's disclosure button
Fixed layout issues with initial hints on 4 inch displays
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.3.2
Released May 1, 2013
Improvements
Improved appearance of alert messages displayed on launch by truncating very long ones
Support email templates now include app version and device info
Added support for recognizing "afternoon" (interpreted as 3pm)
Bug Fixes
Fixed crash on launch that occurs when there are corrupted contact entries
Fixed occasional crash that occurs when trying to display a note at the center of the screen after its alert goes off
Fixed incorrectly generated note title when it contains text of the form "on DAYOFWEEK"
Fixed issue where month name abbreviations are incorrectly parsed from ordinary words
Fixed issue where the date is incorrectly parsed when there are multiple times present in a note
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.3.1
Released April 17, 2013
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevents Alert Notes from appearing in the Contacts Privacy section of the Settings app
It is now possible to adjust the alert date manually to a date earlier than the one currently set
Fixed an issue where the back button sometimes does not reappear after exiting from the note editor help screen
Fixed an issue which sometimes prevents the note from being edited after exiting from the note editor help screen
Fixed a typo in name detection error message
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.3
Released September 20, 2012
Adds support for iOS 6 and the 4 inch screen of iPhone 5 and new iPod touch.
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.2.1
Released October 24, 2011
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
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.2
Released October 14, 2011
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.
Alert Notes for iPhone Version 1.1
Released August 31, 2011
New Features
Landscape mode support
Ability to quickly send a text message, initiate a FaceTime call, or share the contact info for names and initials detected from your notes' text
Improvements
Lengthened some of the alert sounds, when appropriate
Improved detection for the days of the week
Improved detection and behavior for phrases like "nightly", "each night" and "every night"
Removed previously arbitrary limit to the number of info items (names, initials, phone numbers, email addresses and URLs) that can be detected in a note
Alert sound preview now stops playing as soon as you leave the alert sound chooser screen
Note titles and alert messages are now consistently capitalized
"Email Us" compose screen appearance now matches the rest of the app
"Email Us" feature now sends email to new address, support@alertnotesapp.com
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where the default alert time setting is not honored for events that repeat daily
Fixed bug where after editing a note, its title does not change to match its new content
Fixed bug where a note's title can have leading spaces
Fixed bug where the phrase "in x months" or "in x days" is not recognized if it is at the start of a line
Purkee makes elegant, useful and fun apps for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. We build apps that we'd like to use ourselves and work in a way that we feel is right.
Purkee's apps are made by Sim and Michelle Domingo. We're a husband and wife team of former physicists turned iOS app developers.