Detail-oriented, Design limited – Informant - Agenda, Tasks, Notes Planner Review

I used Informant for 5 years because I liked having one iOS app for calendar, tasks, and contacts. I went off it for a year and a half, frustrated with company support and with the glitchiness of task and contact data handling. But I'm back to using it, having missed Informant's deep customization of tasks and events. I still wish it could do better. I worked with task managers Omnifocus and then Things for several months each. Their design, support, and integration of GTD method were superb. But their limited incorporation of calendar events was hard for me to work with. I found calendar apps Fantastical and Readdle's Calendars 5 so much easier for adding appts, with their natural-language input. The task apps and Fantastical were also more attractive than Informant. But they lacked Informant's broad options for displaying and repeating events. So, I'm now back to Informant, with its myopic ethos of "if the code is right, everything is right." I know that support will continue to frustrate, that Informant's clunky interface will slow me down, that its outdated look will disappoint. I'll use Fantastical for natural-language input of appts, and I'll pine for the clean layouts of Omni and Things.
Review by jdexe on Informant - Agenda, Tasks, Notes Planner.