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It seems beautiful. Still, I am wondering: What's the difference between Fantastical and the billion of others calendar. (And, I really don't mean it in a harsh
by d0m 15y ago
It seems beautiful. Still, I am wondering: What's the difference between Fantastical and the billion of others calendar. (And, I really don't mean it in a harsh way as I'm really sad not to be able to try it since I'm on linux).
Is it the real-time sync with gcal? Or the smart event parsing..? The prettiness of it?
- ynniv 15y agoIt must be some confluence of all of them, since Google Calendar + iCal already does everything this app does. We are missing something from our calendaring experience. I'm not sure what that is, but this app doesn't have it. A good first try.
- dorian-graph 15y agoiCal and Google Calendar have 'natural' event creation? They have a menu icon with a small app that resides there? Etc.. Try it out. See what's different for yourself.
- smackfu 15y agoGoogle Calendar does have 'natural' event creation, except they call it Quick Add.
- ynniv 15y agoYes, GCal has "natural" event creation. It also has a very intuitive method for entering multi day events via highlighting the days. So I use GCal to edit my events and they show up in iCal, on my phone, and in a browser. A menu icon on my computer just doesn't seem that exciting.
- sunchild 15y agoI don't like iCal at all. It's too clumsy in almost every respect. The Lion update looks like a step in the wrong direction, too. The only promising feature is the natural language parsing, which IMO is an essential feature of a calendar. I'm not sure how I feel about Fantastical, since I've only had it installed for 5 minutes. I've tried other iCal replacements like BusyCal, but they didn't seem like enough of an improvement. There's definitely a space for simple NLP calendar input on the desktop, though.