{"id":6586,"date":"2012-11-29T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2012-12-02T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:33:12","slug":"fantastical-for-iphone-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/29\/fantastical-for-iphone-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastical for iPhone 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/fantastical-iphone\">iPhone version of Fantastical<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/fantastical-for-iphone-is-here\/\">now available<\/a>. Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/fantastical-1-3-1\/\">Mac version<\/a>, it&rsquo;s great at creating new events. It also has a great list view. At the top is the DayTicker, a horizontal list of days reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/products\/omnifocus-iphone\/\">OmniFocus&rsquo;s<\/a> Forecast view, except that it&rsquo;s scrollable. Below that is an editable list of events. Somehow, even with the DayTicker, it&rsquo;s able to show more events at once than the built-in Calendar app&rsquo;s list. The month view also has better information density.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m pretty sure that Fantastical will become my go-to iPhone calendar app, however there is one area where Apple&rsquo;s Calendar is better. Apple&rsquo;s Calendar app can display the current day number on its home screen icon. Third-party applications aren&rsquo;t allowed to do this.<\/p>\n<p>See also the articles by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/11\/29\/3703778\/fantastical-for-iphone\">Ellis Hamburger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/fantastical-for-iphone-review\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-12-02): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/12\/the-fantastical-experiment-is-over\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a> notes that there&rsquo;s no way to get alarm notifications to open Fantastical rather than Calendar. Fortunately, I don&rsquo;t open events from notifications.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone version of Fantastical is now available. Like the Mac version, it&rsquo;s great at creating new events. It also has a great list view. At the top is the DayTicker, a horizontal list of days reminiscent of OmniFocus&rsquo;s Forecast view, except that it&rsquo;s scrollable. Below that is an editable list of events. Somehow, even [&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":[193,194,31,26],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-calendar","tag-fantastical","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","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=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}