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« on: October 05, 2015, 03:00:14 am »

Fantastical 2.1 for OS X review: An even better Calendar replacement

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<p>As Apple’s calendar app for iOS and Mac OS X moved across recent releases from inconsistent, inadequate, and irritating to more or less just fine, the market for replacements grew and matured. Fantastical for iOS, now in its second release, filled a gap there by not just presenting a clean list and offering strong support for different calendar systems, but also its natural-language processing. Type in a semblance of an event, and Fantastical would parse it and place it for you without fuss.</p><p>Fantastical’s makers, Flexibits, brought a kind of snippet of Fantastical to OS X in its first version: a drop-down day view closely reminiscent of the iOS version. Its 2.0 release in March 2015 was a full-fledged replacement for Apple’s Calendar and a strong competitor to similar products. The 1.0 turned into the Mini-Window, an optional system menu bar pop-down that gives a capsule view. A recent 2.1 update answers many of our concerns in the initial release, and moves it even farther ahead of Calendar.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2986180/software-productivity/fantastical-21-for-os-x-review-an-even-better-calendar-replacement.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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