[Update 10/5: Notified Pro has since been updated to v1.5 and now supports statusbar icons, incoming mail notifications, and three custom notification plugins: Statusbar, Notificationbar, and GriP.]
The paid version of Notified App hit the Cydia Store yesterday. It costs a cool $2.99 and nets you all the features of the free version (duh, Thomas!), but also allows you to call upon the app from any screen with a simple Activator gesture (wow, Thomas!).
If you haven ‘t seen my quick look at the free version of Notified, you may want to do so before you read this piece, since I ‘ll just be busting out a set of notes about what ‘s different in Pro.
Notified Everywhere ” Since Notified can be summoned through Activator (just like SBSettings), it ‘s easier than ever to take a look at your logged notifications at any time. I ‘ve programmed the list to come up with a bottom-left swipe, but I ‘m still not quite sure about how to make it go away. A press of the home button works, a tap on the bottom of the list works *sometimes*, and using the bottom-left gesture also seems to toggle Notified off. However, I think Notified is significantly less intuitive than SBSettings, when it comes to dismissing it from the screen.
Blocking Alerts from within Notified ” Both the free and paid versions of Notified can selectively block different types of notification pop-ups (calendar, push, messages, etc.), but the only way to check for new information then is to look at app badges or load Notified up.
However, blocking pop-ups from within Notified isn ‘t a very good solution at the moment, since it ends up blocking related sound and vibration alerts, as well.
I ‘m using a separate jailbreak app called Notifier to display a status icon whenever the Notified badge lights up, but still doesn ‘t provide any sound or vibration alerts when I receive any type of push notifications.
Blocking Alerts from within Settings.app ” The other method I tried to cut down on my pop-ups was to selectively de-activate alerts for apps that are better suited to Notified (Beejive is a good example of this). I did this by going to Settings -> Notifications and then setting Alerts for Beejive to Off.
My hope was that I could still benefit from the sound, vibration, and badge alerts for incoming messages, but get rid of the rather pesky pop-ups. After all, I could always just check the Notified Drawer to see what messages were just sent, right? Wrong, apparently.
It seems that setting an app ‘s Alerts to Off prevents even Notified from logging the notifications. To make a long story short: you won ‘t want to turn Alerts off.
Quick Button Fix needed ” the actual Notified app that launches from the Springboard icon works perfectly, but Notified Pro ‘s overlay still needs a quick fix. It ‘s currently impossible to clean your list of notifications, despite repeated taps on the ‘Clear ‘ button (although this does reset the Notified app badge correctly). The Notified Twitter account has stated a fix is coming soon, though.
I quite like Notified Pro so far and consider it a $2.99 well spent, but I have yet to be convinced that it ‘s really a real game changer as far as notifications are concerned. However, I do have hope in the free, open-source plugins that the developer plans to release, which will feature custom pop-ups, among other things.
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Notified Pro is available for $2.99 on the Cydia Store.
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