{"id":5215,"date":"2012-06-29T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:57:54","slug":"fantastical-1-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/fantastical-1-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastical 1.3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m kind of late to the <a href=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/fantastical\">Fantastical<\/a> bandwagon, but it really is good. You get a hotkey-summoned natural language text field for creating events, which works much better than iCal&rsquo;s. And there&rsquo;s also an iOS-style list of upcoming events. Rather than opening iCal, I had actually found myself pulling the iPhone out of my pocket to see this sort of list. Now I just press the hotkey. Flexibits is currently having a 50%-off sale (via <a href=\"http:\/\/muleradio.net\/thetalkshow\/6\/\">John Gruber<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I also learned a good tip from the <a href=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/fantastical_faq\">FAQ<\/a>, which is applicable whether or not you&rsquo;re using Fantastical:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/fantastical_faq\"><p>Why does iCal automatically open when I add an event to my iCloud calendar?<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re using Lion, iCal automatically opens whenever new iCloud events are pushed to your Mac. To change this behavior, go to iCal &gt; Preferences &gt; Accounts. Select your iCloud account, then change the &ldquo;Refresh Calendars&rdquo; setting from Push to something else, such as Every 30 minutes. Both iCal and Fantastical will continue to sync as you&rsquo;d expect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It had been driving me crazy that I would open iCal, add an event, and quit it; and then it would auto-launch itself just a few seconds later.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m kind of late to the Fantastical bandwagon, but it really is good. You get a hotkey-summoned natural language text field for creating events, which works much better than iCal&rsquo;s. And there&rsquo;s also an iOS-style list of upcoming events. Rather than opening iCal, I had actually found myself pulling the iPhone out of my pocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}