Stephen Morrison is a Sunriser!
Today we’re welcoming Stephen Morrison at Sunrise. He’ll be joining our team as a backend engineer focused on building new services for your favorite calendar.
He is thrilled to be joining the Sunrise team as an intern this summer. A couple months ago his interest was piqued in the calendar app space when a couple apps including Sunrise launched attempting to improve the calendar experience on iOS. He was very impressed by the effort that the Sunrise team put into the app to make it extremely intuitive so he was excited to learn they were looking for a summer intern.
Beyond Sunrise, he loves hacking on various side projects, dabbling in Sketch, going on long bike rides, and eating baby carrots by the bag.
Update: What’s New in Version 1.2
Good news! Sunrise v1.2 is now available on the App Store! Here’s what’s new:
Mention your friends/contacts
Quickly invite event attendees via the event title field.
Dots indicator
We added dots when you expand the calendar view to quickly see what days have events and how busy your schedule is.
A light dot means you have between 1 and 3 events.
A dark dot means you have at least 3 events or more on that day.
Offline support
Create events offline without a network connection. Which means no more trouble in the subway or on the plane!
More pictures
We now also load pictures from your local address book.
Too many invites?
Ignore invites by swiping in the invitation view.
Refresh
A refresh button is now available in the invitation view.
Quickly call access
Quick phone call option is now available by swiping if a phone number available.
Bug fixes
Bugs fixes and performance improvements.
Thanks again for your amazing support, keep sending us your feedback at feedback@sunrise.am
Update available on the App Store.
Jeremy
Sunrise v1.1: Learn about the People You’re Meeting
Good news! Sunrise v1.1 is available on the App Store today. Take a look at some of the new features and fixes coming your way.
LinkedIn integration
We added a profile to each of your event invitees so you can learn more about them before the meeting. An easy one tap access to their LinkedIn and Facebook profiles was also added as well as a direct link to their address book entry.
Skip email invitation
Want to add your friends or colleagues to events without feeling like you’re spamming them? You can now add people to your events and get access to their Facebook, LinkedIn, and address book entry without having to “officially” invite them via email.
Notes + Repeating events
We heard you, we noticed many of you were missing two features and here they are. Repeating events and notes are now available when creating a new event under the “More” section at the very bottom.
Thanks again for your amazing support, keep sending us your feedback at feedback@sunrise.am
Important Notice: Google-only users synchronization issues
A calendar first feature is to be reliable.
Today we discovered a serious bug where people who logged in with Google only wouldn’t receive any calendar updates unless they fully quit the app and re-opened it. The app was designed to download new events from the server every time it’s opened, but that didn’t happen in this case.
We wanted to take the opportunity to apologize for the inconvenience encountered, here at Sunrise we take our users’ happiness very seriously.
The latest update is available on the App Store.
Jeremy
Calendar Tips: Time Zones
Have you ever wondered how to manage events with different time zones in your calendar? Do you find yourself trying to figure out what time it will be in Paris while you’re in New York? Don’t worry, you won’t need a timezone converter!
Sunrise uses the time zone of the event location. You simply need to think in terms of the local time for that event, like everyone does ;-)
The location can include anything such as a neighborhood, city, street or even a restaurant.
Sunrise will adjust the events to your current time zone and keep them up to date. As soon as you step off the plane in Paris for instance, your meetings will be in the right time zone.
