Another skeuomorphic design, but I can't see why this would bother anyone. When you've finished creating the event by tapping the 'Add' button, the page folds up and flies into the background, merging with the DayTicker on the appropriate date. I'm finding myself dictating more events than typing just because it feels more natural. Bring up Siri from the keyboard, say something like you would to a person, and Fantastical will still parse it just like it would the text version. You don't even have to type if you don't want.

I'm writing this review on a Thursday, so notice that when I typed 'tomorrow night' it automatically moved the event to Friday at 8pm. As you type, your words will 'float' down into the event preview pane and change things on-the-fly (no pun intended) as Fantastical parses the information. When creating events, as with the Mac app, you simply type an event the way you would say it out loud. Scroll the event list instead, and the DayTicker follows. So AnimatedĪnimations within the app are very well done.Īs you scroll back and forth in the DayTicker, the list of events below scrolls with you. Very simple yet effective design.Īnother nice touch is the 'ripped paper' graphic that denotes any gaps between days on the DayTicker. This way, you don't need to see any event titles to know that Wednesday is pretty much booked, or that a bunch of bills are due Monday (if you have a 'Bills' calendar like I do, anyway).

The blobs actually correlate with the length and calendar-type of each event, making it easy to quickly scroll through the DayTicker and still have a concept of what's happening on a given day. When appropriate, each date is filled with colored 'blobs' that indicate events occurring that day. No matter where you end up scrolling, you can simply tap the red menu bar above to return back to today's date. Tap any visible date and the DayTicker will scroll there.

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