That's also, Simmons says, the best way to really dig in and get schedulin'. It's pretty, and laid out similarly to most calendar apps you've seen. It has day, week, month, and year views, as well as a list of calendars on the left side. Now there's a dedicated app window, which looks like, well, a calendar app. The app previously existed only in the Mac's menu bar, where a quick keyboard shortcut would drop your calendar down over whatever you were doing, so you could quickly add or check something. It's also about the only thing Flexibits hasn't totally overhauled in Fantastical 2 for Mac, the brand-new, far more powerful app launching today.įantastical 2's most important new feature is a full-size app window. That became the core feature of Fantastical, the app Flexibits launched in 2011. The two-man team behind app developer Flexibits particularly hated how hard Apple's calendar app made it to add events, so they built a natural-language parser that allowed you to type 'Dinner with Kim 7PM next Thursday' and have the event automatically slot into exactly the right place. When Michael Simmons and Kent Sutherland started building a calendar app for the Mac in 2010, their goal was simple: fix everything bad about iCal.
