Jason SnellJust posted on Six Colors: There and Back Again: Foregoing Fantastical
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/there-and-back-again-foregoing-fantastical/
Erlend@jsnell Have you given Busycal (https://www.busymac.com/) a try? $10 on iOS and included on Setapp for the Mac ($50 normally, I think). I like it a lot, and feel like it sits in the middle of Fantastical and Calendar.app.
Doesn't have Openings and Scheduling, but has a menu bar app, 20 widgets, layouts I like (with some customisability), weather, calendar sets (with automation), tasks, hiding of events (manual or identical) and more.
(Yes, Oslo is cold these days. 🥶)
@havn but… it's on Setapp and if it works for you that's great! But to answer your question, yes, I have tried it
@jsnell I've used it for six months or so, and there's been tons of updates in that period. Perhaps it's picked up again..?
Would be interesting to hear what didn't work for you. If you haven't used it in a while, I'd give it another try! (Calendars are easy like that. ☺️)
But sometimes software just hit different people differently. 🙂 And I'm a pretty light calendar user (I just like nice apps - but can't quite justify Fantastical).
Duclearc
Carlos Fonseca@duclearc @havn @jsnell +1 for BusyCal. Switched from Fantastical a few years ago because it's on Setapp. It is less pretty but I like its version of calendar sets since they also save view configs and are more visible in the UI. It also merges duplicate events. Calendar's widgets are nicer though. For people who subscribe to Setapp it's a better option than Calendar.
@carlosefonseca @duclearc @jsnell Oh, I like the widgets as well! And with 20 options (on iPad - a bit fewer on iPhone), there's a lot to choose from. 🙂
@havn @carlosefonseca @jsnell My biggest pet peeves so far are that BusyCal (AFAIK) doesn't let you search for an event in the menu bar and doesn't issue a notification when something was changed on your calendar. Otherwise it seems just as good as Fantastical for *my* use cases.