Recommendations you can check.
by Flexibits
Who uses, recommends or left Fantastical, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
4 people
Fantastical - better calendar
Her /uses page, a "non-exhaustive list of things I use". The page is undated (footer (c) 2023) and mina.codes has no public source repo, so no publication date could be established.
2023-12-01·mina.codes ↗
But I’m leaning into Fantastical because of a few additional features that are useful to me. Primarily proposals.
His annual post locking in the tools he will use for the coming year, app by app, with the reasoning for each choice.
2026-01-31·macsparky.com ↗
While Fantastical is probably the best calendar app for most people using Apple devices
A guest post he wrote for The Sweet Setup, running through the apps he considers essential to his work. Bylined 'by Matt Birchler' and written throughout in the first person.
2023-05-09·thesweetsetup.com ↗
I use MailPlane for email, Fantastical to keep my calendar, Slack to stay in touch with my colleagues and collaborators, and Twitterrific to check Twitter.
His written "Uses This" interview, covering his writing and podcast-production setup.
2021-01-24·usesthis.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.