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Show HN: Menu Bar Calendar on macOS
- sgt 3y agoVery cool app and super clean design. Did you use SwiftUI?
- mofle 3y agoYes, it's made with SwiftUI.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoLooks nice. Nice to see SwiftUI projects shipping.
- tennisflyi 3y agoI’ll check this and Dato out!
- canthonytucci 3y agoI really like it, but I wish that one of the bar icon options was the very cute happy calendar from the app icon.
- mofle 3y agoThat’s a good idea. I will get that added
- akerr 3y agoItsycal is also free and does more. Install from Homebrew or https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
- shbooms 3y ago+1 for itsycal. - solid integration with macOS Calendar app (shows all your events and has a "+" option to create new ones) - can also display a time clock along with the date and also has fully customizable datetime patterns meaning you fully replace the system date/time. I especially love doing this and now being able to just click on the date time in the menubar and see a calendar popup (instead of datetime settings which I never need quick access to) similar to the Windows clock
- prokopton 3y agoYeah, itsycal has been around a while and is fantastic.
- Condition1952 3y agoOnly free. I thought it was free and open source. I still love it, though
- jackwilsdon 3y agoItsycal is open source: https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal
- bandergirl 3y agoUnfortunately squatters steal mobile apps source and republish it with ads or in-app purchases. Apple does nothing to prevent it, so legitimate developers have to stop providing source code.
- LeSaucy 3y agoNow that looks competitive with fantastical
- yawnxyz 3y agoI use itsycal and this project looks remarkably close, right down to the logo!
- sircastor 3y agoI have been using Itsycal as my menu clock + calendar for quite a while. I cannot fathom why Apple never implemented this natively.
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- frfl 3y agoVery nice. Reminds me of a Steve Jobs(?) quote about how things like are should be a feature not a product. Gnome has this built in and I think Windows does too. I recall a number of times when I wanted to look at dates while using a mac and had to open the Calendar app to do that instead of just using a calendar widget in the OS menu/task bar.
- dfee 3y agoI’ve heard investors complain of the exact opposite (well, circa 2012): “is that an app or just a feature?”. Is there an alternate side to this where people want to just sell features? Because that seems like a sure way to pursue product market fit!
- bombcar 3y agoThe problem with selling features is you’ll get sherlocked.
- satvikpendem 3y ago> Non-App Store Version > A special version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won’t receive automatic updates. I will update it here once a year. Looks nice but not sure why you don't just put it on Homebrew instead of updating the non-app store version once a year.
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- joshmanders 3y agoYou're welcome to submit a PR to Homebrew if you want it there. Why is it his job to put it there for you?
- satvikpendem 3y agoThey don't have to submit it to Homebrew. Similarly I don't have to use it. If I have to submit a PR to Homebrew when an app's creator can (and usually does) do it themselves, it's likely I will just use something on Homebrew already, like Itsycal, which I have just started using as a result of someone else mentioning it. It's just a difference of opinion, nothing more.
- ghotli 3y agoI maintain something like this. You're talking about maybe ten lines of ruby to accomplish getting this into Homebrew. It would just download this url and perform a checksum.
- satvikpendem 3y agoSounds good, sounds like the creator will have an easy time of adding it to Homebrew then. Until then I will continue using other apps that are already on there.
- joshmanders 3y ago
- keyle 3y agoThis guy ships! Love the website and the apps. I too dabble in putting out macos apps but I haven't ventured on the Mac AppStore.
- IBCNU 3y agoSindre does amazing work!
- keyle 3y agoQuestion for the OP: who/where/how do you design your app icons? They're super.
- keyle 3y agoFound my answer randomly https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1597251293965594624 https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1597251293965594624
- mofle 3y agoUntil recently, all by hand in Photoshop and Sketch. Now I use AI generation as an initial base in icons, but still tweak a lot. This icon was fully made in Sketch though.
- binarymax 3y agoIt’s mind boggling that this isn’t a native feature. I’ve been using minical, and this looks really nice. I suppose I’ll never understand why Apple doesn’t just add two buttons to their calendar so we can scroll months.
- userbinator 3y agoI haven't used macOS much but I suspect it's due to the style of minimalism that Apple tends to like. Windows has always had a calendar in the equivalent place since Win95, I believe (double-click the taskbar clock.)
- princevegeta89 3y agoThe default calendar that comes with Mac OS sucked the last time I tried. It was always slow to load and there are no quick shortcuts to things so that prompted me to look for 3rd party ones that simply blow the stock one out of the water.
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- sgt 3y agoIt does however come with three built-in things: Calendar widget (on the side of your screen) Calendar.app cal in the shell. Interestingly it's the one I use the most
- crazygringo 3y agoIt looks really nice. Note that macOS already has this kind of -- just add the month-view calendar widget and it'll appear alongside the other widgets (click the datetime in the menubar to show widgets). But it only shows the current month -- no arrows for next month (since widgets aren't interactive). But click it and it'll bring up the full Calendar app with monthly arrow navigation.
- viewtransform 3y agoIs there a way to create the equivalent of the iOS Clock app: alarms, timers and stopwatches on macOS preferably in the menubar ?
- alas44 3y agoAnd before this new widget that is blocked on current month there was in prior macOS versions a calendar you could navigate month by month into, so this is a regression. Might give this calendar menu bar a try
- brianzelip 3y agoRegression indeed. So annoying to have to open an app instead of swipe to widget and interact with it.
- crazygringo 3y agoYeah, that was the widgets screen rather than the new widgets sidebar. The change to the sidebar required widgets to be static images now, from my understanding (with a seeming exception for clocks). There's no way to provide interactivity. The plus side is they display instantly because they're pre-rendered in the background. The downside is, well, no interactivity.
- satvikpendem 3y agomacOS Sonoma has such a calendar widget again.
- joshmanders 3y agoGreat little app, Sindre! I'm a big fan and lover of Dato. Thank you for creating such beautiful software!
- dfee 3y agoThe seems to be an interesting fermium play for their Dato (paid) app. Interesting! I currently pay for Fantastical. I don’t even use it much, because our company uses Google Calendar, and booking in the web app is superior (I can access/add meeting rooms, etc.). What I haven’t been able to do is sync my work and family calendars (so my wife doesn’t double book me or vice versa). I also really like the full-screen takeover by Dato (again, from the article’s author), don’t know why Fantastical doesn’t have that!
- dewey 3y agoI was having the same problem where I wanted to block events on my iCloud calendar on my work Google calendar. Google allows you to subscribe to other calendars (Like the iCloud one) but there’s an invisible limitation of 10MB where it then just doesn’t do anything and no events show up. I set out to build that (of course I already bought a domain!) and only while building that stumbled upon a gem for calendar parsing which was built by someone who built a service like that already which did exactly what I wanted…just better so I’m just using this now: https://calmcalendar.com/ https://calmcalendar.com/
- dfee 3y agoNice find! thank you :)
- carabiner 3y agoAh, how many of these do we need? https://quickviewcalendar.com/ https://quickviewcalendar.com/
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- IshKebab 3y agoOne every year until Apple actually implements this basic functionality I guess.
- jbverschoor 3y agoI like https://www.seense.com/the_clock/ https://www.seense.com/the_clock/ as it has calendar items, and multiple timezones
- bandergirl 3y agoOh that’s beautiful and localized
- beardedwizard 3y agoIirc macOS used to do this when you clicked the time, then it started triggering widgets instead. I hated that change and appreciate this app.
- bandergirl 3y agoI don’t think it ever did, you’re probably confusing it with one of the many such apps. I remember I was using one with 10.4 already because Windows Vista had it natively (if I remember correctly)
- beardedwizard 3y agoMaybe I am thinking of windows
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoThis is what happens when I click the time on my decade-old version of macOS: https://i.ibb.co/jRy6vf9/Screen-Shot-2023-09-03-at-8-00-59-AM.png https://i.ibb.co/jRy6vf9/Screen-Shot-2023-09-03-at-8-00-59-A... Was there an in-between version?
- princevegeta89 3y agoAppreciate the effort from the author, however there is a similar app called Mini Calendar that I use and love for what it does: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-calendar/id1088779979?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-calendar/id1088779979?mt=... It shows up in the dock with the current date and also has an option to be shown in the menu bar as well
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- fouc 3y agoCan anyone recommend a great source code example of a menu bar app? I've got the urge to hack on one of my old ideas..
- the-dude 3y agoMan, I don't know why I remember all this stuff. It is exhausting. So I remembered : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318 > Hey HN, > I’m Jordan from Superpowered (http://superpowered.me/ http://superpowered.me/), here with my co-founders Nikhil, Nick, and Ibrahim. We’re building a calendar app for the Mac menu bar.*
- greazy 3y agoSeems like the company pivoted to an AI taking app.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoOne of YCs filters based on which school you passed out from is no longer a good signal and hasn't been for a while.
- the-dude 3y ago> an AI taking app. I have no idea what that does, but I want it.
- rplnt 3y ago(offtopic rant follows) I wish I had space for more menu bar icons. Or let me rephrase it, I wish OSX would allow me to manage them myself. I don't get how it's not an out of the box feature, considering every single app likes to put an icon there (however useless it may be) and that we have limited estate there with the macbook bumps.
- rafram 3y agoWhat do you mean “manage them myself”? You can Cmd-drag the icons to move or remove them.
- rplnt 3y agoHow do I remove them? When I was searching for this (few years back) I only found 3rd party applications.
- TheUnhinged 3y agoCmd-Click and, while holding Cmd, drag the icon down away from the menubar.
- rplnt 3y agoI tried that, didn't work. Now tried it with multiple icons, thinking it might have been the application forcing it, but same result for all that I've tried. And I'm also wondering how would I get it back after?
- chrisvander 3y agoBartender (https://www.macbartender.com https://www.macbartender.com) is my go-to. Been using it for many years.
- dtgriscom 3y agoI jumped into using Bartender when I got a new Macbook with the camera notch. I'd been dealing with some apps on narrower screens having menus that hid the leftmost menubar icons, but the notch sealed the deal. Bartender just works. Recommended highly.
- mehmet_mhy 3y agoNice! I use this app all the time. Though it is simple, I find this app essential!
- cocoa19 3y agoLove it! MacOS is great by many measures, but it's interesting devs keep developing apps to replicate what other operating systems do and are considered basic features (rectangle, alttab, bartender, calendar). Don't want to start a flame war, but I'm not a big fan of Finder, I hope there was a replacement that worked more like what we have on Windows/Gnome/KDE.
- ericrallen 3y agoJust as a note if you're looking for similar programs or alternatives, Shaun Inman[0] released something like this a long time ago called Day-0. I've been using it on the MacBook I'm currently typing this on since 2012. He's updated it a few times over the years to deal with new versions of macOS not cooperating with the old build. Website seems to be down due to Media Temple merging into GoDaddy, according to the description of the GitHub repo[1] mirroring the old content, but the Day-0 zip archives[2] are still there. Of course, it feels weird to download and install a zip from a GitHub archive without any context, so I guess it's probably dead now. There' I think the first version was released sometime around 2011 and the most recent update[3] was in 2020. --- [0]: https://twitter.com/shauninman https://twitter.com/shauninman [1]: https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com [2]: https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com/tree/main/assets/downloads https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com/tree/main/asset... [3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230317115926/https://shauninman.com/archive/2020/04/08/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock_for_catalina https://web.archive.org/web/20230317115926/https://shauninma...
- ics 3y agoOff topic but damn, Media Temple. Brings back deep nostalgia for the pre-and-becoming Web 2.0 era of the web. I still have a red iPod shuffle and some other miscellaneous swag from participating in their beta programs.
- aldos 3y agoHere's another alternative: Itsycal brew install itsycal https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ I like that you can customise the menu bar formatting, even adding custom messages.
- millzlane 3y agoThis is my fav. There is also hidden bar https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
- TheUnhinged 3y agoI need something like this on my Windows 11 work laptop :(