![]() In this respect, it’s extremely similar to the company’s well-regarded versions of Fantastical for the iPhone and iPad, and if you already like one or both of them more than iOS 8’sĬalendar app (as I do), you’ll be at home in the Mac version. Notably, Fantastical boasts a left-hand sidebar that shows a mini month view and a highly useful list of both upcoming events and dated reminders (a quick click on a checkmark button switches the list to show only reminders). Flexibits has now expanded Fantastical beyond the menu bar, making it into a standalone app with a full calendar window with standard day, week, month, and year views. ![]() The initial version of Fantastical was a focused menu bar utility that extended Calendar by showing your schedule with a click and making it easy to enter new events with natural language processing. It’s always refreshing to see a Mac developer step up to take a swing at the incumbent, and that’s just what Flexibits is doing with Fantastical 2. It’s hard to make a business case for the time and effort necessary to create a new app when you have to convince every customer to switch from a free alternative that’s already installed. However, bundled software has a chilling effect on competition, and thus on innovation. It is of course a good thing that every Mac user has access to a generally capable calendaring app for free - that’s necessary to ensure that OS X remains competitive with other operating systems. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbkīundled apps - such as Apple’s OS X Calendar - tread an uneasy path. ![]()
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