{"id":8154,"date":"2013-10-30T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:00:09","slug":"fantastical-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/fantastical-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastical 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flexibits.com\/fantastical-iphone\">Fantastical 2<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/fantastical-2\">App Store<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/tweetbot-3\/\">another<\/a> iOS 7 update for a great app. I like the 5-day &ldquo;week&rdquo; view when you rotate the phone and the number and punctuation keys on the keyboard, which help with natural language entry. I was a fan of the old theme, but the new, brighter colors are even better. The event list is slightly more compact, so it can actually show more once.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2058681\/fantastical-2-for-iphone-review-calendar-app-gets-more-fantastic-for-ios-7.html\">Dan Frakes<\/a> has a good review:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2058681\/fantastical-2-for-iphone-review-calendar-app-gets-more-fantastic-for-ios-7.html\"><p>New in Fantastical 2 is the capability to use this natural-language entry system to create reminders. While you&rsquo;re entering the task details, tap the calendar\/reminder toggle&mdash;or simply start your description with &ldquo;reminder,&rdquo; &ldquo;task,&rdquo; &ldquo;todo,&rdquo; or &ldquo;remind me to&rdquo; (the four approaches Flexibits specifically recommends)&mdash;and Fantastical interprets the text as a reminder instead of a calendar event. As with events, you can specify a particular list using <em>\/[list name]<\/em>, and tapping Show Details lets you configure options such as priorities, geofencing, and date\/time reminders. (You can also set some of these options by including the information in your task description, such as &ldquo;remind me Thursday at 4pm.&rdquo;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2013-11-06): <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/11\/05\/identical_cousins_23\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/11\/05\/identical_cousins_23\"><p>Fantastical 2 is a new app, but they didn&rsquo;t want that thing where a new app means you lose all your preferences and have to set up everything all over again.<\/p>\n<p>So what they did is have both versions of Fantastical share a keychain, and they had Fantastical 1 store a copy of some of the preferences in the keychain. Then Fantastical 2 read those preferences back from the keychain &mdash; and there you go. No need to set it up again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great idea, but it didn&rsquo;t work on my iPhone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastical 2 (App Store) is another iOS 7 update for a great app. I like the 5-day &ldquo;week&rdquo; view when you rotate the phone and the number and punctuation keys on the keyboard, which help with natural language entry. I was a fan of the old theme, but the new, brighter colors are even better. 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