#fantastical — Public Fediverse posts

Apropos of nothing, I still dream that one day @flexibits will incorporate the day and date into the #Fantastical Timeline complication so I don’t need to use up another complication spot for that purpose.

I once even Photoshopped an idea to include it in small size to represent how it could appear.

The past week I’ve had a vague feeling that something on my #AppleWatch was—different. Wasn’t sure what will just now.

I’d gone a month on medical leave with no work appointments, so none of them showing in the @flexibits #Fantastical complication on my watch. But I did block off the month on my work calendar with an FMLA label. So most all the time except when a personal event overrode, I saw FMLA on the screen.

It’s been a little weird this past week with it back to saying “No items today.”

Despite the extortionate pricing: the #calendar application #Fantastical is quite simply the finest software product I've utilised over the past decade. It features continuous, purposeful iterations, robust stability, and flawless integration across Apple ecosystem. It's genuinely one of those indispensable tools that I would miss dreadfully on a Linux desktop.

20 vibrant #NaturePaintings by Jon Ching that feel almost real: https://zorz.it/BrXPv

#SaumyaRatan #art #paintings #JonChing #artist #BirdPaintings #fantastical #reality #imagination

Illustration by Arent van Bolten, from Groteske figuren omgeven door een kaderlijn (ca. 1610).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42c848de-67b9-4081-9a9f-99bdc90db485

#caricatures #grotesques #monsters #drawing #fantastical-creatures #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/406193db-10d3-4951-87f6-eec3f18ed28e

#animals #art-nouveau #beasts #sea-life #modernism #dragons #ornament #fantastical-creatures #art #publicdomain

This story is EXCELLENT.
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/lotus-dew-for-the-emperors-tea/

#LightspeedMagazine #ShortFiction #Fantastical

I have found voice input to be super helpful. I use it entirely for prose: notes, tasks, and reminders. I **don't** use it to make the machine "do things" or for coding (but that's just me ... you do you; and also, I don't use it for coding **yet**).

I currently use two tools:

* Spokenly (phone + laptop)
* Just Press Record (watch + phone)

Each has advantages. Both produce transcriptions which I then "route" to the appropriate place (Things, Obsidian, Fantastical) with Sharing.

Just Press Record also runs on my watch, so I can use it while driving or other situations where the phone is inconvenient, illegal, or unavailable. I can later look at a list and handle them one at a time or in bulk.

Spokenly is significantly more accurate. You pick the underlying model, so you can decide if you want local-only (as I do, so no fees of any kind), size (controls memory used and speed of translation, at the cost of accuracy), and what spoken languages it knows. You can switch at will; and you don't have to have the same model on your phone as on your laptop. You typically handle results in Spokenly immediately (for a while I thought this was the only choice), but they are saved and you can look at them all in History and deal with them from there.

I'm still playing with which models are the best balance of speed and accuracy for my use case. On my phone I'm using "Distil-Whisper Small (English Only)". On my Mac, the same but "Medium".

This doesn't **sound** like a huge win. I certainly didn't expect much when I decided to try it. But it turns out to punch far above its weight.

#VoiceInput #Spokenly #JustPressRecord #Things #Obsidian #Fantastical #Productivity

@robhawkes Apple's reminders, although using @flexibits #Fantastical for the much better user interface. Kinda half-arsedly looking for an alternative back-end that I can still use via Fantastical, but Apple's implementation is, so I understand, a somewhat bastardised version of #iCal so not sure if that's even possible.

So I just remembered the zombie #iOS #widget is for @flexibits #Fantastical.

Hey Flexi—all the #widgets available to add are suddently empty. Something may have broken on the beta release I’m on: 4.1.6 (2122)

Any suggestions?

@dhry While the release notes are great, #Fantastical is not a good example when it comes to subscription pricing 💸💸

New update of iOS #Fantastical. Presented as an example of how to properly accumulate fixes then release a new version, and how to describe the changes. As opposed to putting out a new version with a single change, but describe it simply as “bugfixes”.

#LiquidGlass ...😒 The contrast of notifications is now so low that I can hardly distinguish them from the apps underneath. When I first saw this, I thought my #VSCode had gotten a new #Fantastical integration.

#macOS #macOSTahoe #Tahoe #LiquidAss #Apple

On the verge of fully phasing-out my use of Fantastical… While I still like the app, it’s become increasingly difficult to justify the subscription price.

https://flexibits.com/fantastical

#iOS #macOS #Fantastical #Flexibits #SaaS #subscriptions #calendar

“What’s new in #Fantastical”

My task manager, my calendar app and my contacts app literally are the lifeblood of my business organization. The latter two apps, #Fantastical and #Cardhop, got a great #LiquidGlass treatment by the always excellent @flexibits today!

Fantastical: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fantastical-calendar/id718043190

Cardhop: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cardhop-contacts/id1448744070

Watched 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' last night. The centaurs looked freakishly ... long.

I tried to make a better centaur.

“Please draw me a centaur type creature from mythology (upper body of a man, lower/rear body of a horse), but instead of putting the man's torso on the front of the horse, please place the man's torso in the middle of the horse, halfway between the front of the horse and the horse's rear end. To be clear, the man is part of the horse, not riding the horse - his torso and all above is merged with the back of the horse. Thanks.”

. . .

“Thank you. Can you iterate on this by removing the horse's neck and head and moving the man's torso a bit more toward the back of the horse? What will be in place of the horse's neck is a rounded sort of "front" of the horse, kind of like the rear end of the horse in shape, but lacking a tail. Thanks.”

Perfection achieved.

#mythology #centaur #myths #fantasy #fantastical #centaur #horse #funny #image #render #GPT #manhorse #WTF #odd

The fine folks at @flexibits are so good.

#fantastical on #windows is beautiful 😍

Going subscription likely enabled development of their amazing calendar app on Windows and I am grateful for that 🙏

My 30 #illustrations showcasing the unique #bonds between #characters and #creatures https://zorz.it/dXQyq | #YaelNathan #CreatureIllustrations #drawing #stories #fantastical #history

Mieux gérer son calendrier grâce à Fantastical
https://mac4ever.com/189723
#Mac4Ever #Fantastical

@gruber @apike This struck a chord: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/03/event-creation-still-largely-feels-like-an-unsolved-ui-problem

Because it's true, and it led me to build https://scheduleus.online

#fantastical, #superhuman, Google, Microsoft, (me) all see the fussy calendar interface as low-hanging fruit for AI. Form-input, like calendar events, is the new UI playground in the era of AI.

Schedule Us works with your default calendar--no need to switch email or calendar client. Works great as web app saved to home screen. #ai #ui #calendar #bicyclingdownhill

This is a major new feature from @flexibits

https://flexibits.com/fantastical/forwardemails

#fantastical #genai

Nope nope nope https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/27/fantastical-can-now-turn-your-email-into-calendar-events-using-ai/ #AI #Apple #Fantastical

@dreamchipper Ja, #BusyCal am Mac, inzwischen sogar für den Menüleistenkalender und Natural Language Input (gebe kaum anders ein). Als Bestandskunde darf ich auch ohne Abo alle Altfunktionen von #Fantastical nutzen, das hat immer noch den besten Parser, aber am Mac zwinge ich mich z.Zt. zu BC. Im fullscreen ist mir BC eh lieber. Unter iOS nutze ich BC und Fantastical. F im Slideover für den schnellen Blick und Suche sowie Termin- & Task-Input (ungeschlagen), BC fullscreen. (1/3)

Dulk’s visionary #StreetArt captivates #people in #unique ways (10 pics) https://zorz.it/sTBbM | #SaumyaRatan #art #Manhattan #BeautifulMurals #Dulk #artist #frescoes #interview #murals #UnderwaterParadise #NaturalWorld #fantastical

⚠️ New #LaunchBar Action Alert! Upcoming is showing (surprise, surprise) upcoming calendar events.

🚀 Open event details in @flexibits #Fantastical, #BusyCal, or the default calendar app.

➡️ https://github.com/Ptujec/LaunchBar/tree/master/Upcoming

Heute ist das letzte @flexibits #Fantastical Widget gewichen. Leute, Ihr kriegt es seit Monaten, ach was, JAHREN nicht auf die Kette, dass der heutige Tag angezeigt wird und schon vor Tagen erledigte Tasks verschwinden. Euer Design ist immer noch mit Abstand das beste, und Euer Natural Language Parser ist ungeschlagen (neue Termine noch immer nur damit)! Aber solche Kleinigkeiten bei dem Preis nicht ein für allemal zu beheben, ist ein No-Go.

Bonjour @busymac #BusyCal

And is it just me, or am I seeing the WWDC logo do a little #Siri wobble on this page?
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/special-event/

#WWDC #Fantastical

How many of us nerds just added #WWDC for June 9 to #Fantastical? 🤓