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October 30, 2013 06:00 pm GMT
As my default Calendar replacement app, Fantastical has been on the home screen of my iPhone since its release nearly a year ago. As one of the few pieces of productivity software that I use regularly, I was extremely nervous about how the app was going to change with its iOS 7 update. I shouldnt have worried. Fantastical 2, out today, is one of the best examples of taking the opportunity presented by Apples iOS 7 update and using it for more than just a visual re-skin. Its a fitting return for the only calendar app to have ever hit the #1 spot on Apples paid charts. If youre unfamiliar with Fantastical, its strengths are a natural language parsing engine that lets you dash off regular phrases like meet with Joe at noon on Tuesday at The Crab Shack and end up with a fully inputted calendar entry without ever typing in any numbers. Its clever and powerful and almost always works exactly how you want it to. This is coupled with a unique layout that places either a day ticker of 1 week or a monthly calendar above a simple continuous agenda of appointments. For the second time in as many weeks, weve seen a very popular app with a distinctive feel re-imagined for iOS 7 with great results. While it could be argued that Tweetbot had an even more pronounced visual language, Fantastical hit some notes pretty hard that it couldnt have been easy to give up. Flexibits Michael Simmons says that the decisions made in the re-working of the app went far beyond how to make the visual language of the app fit in with iOS 7. Yes, the staples along the top of the virtual calendar are gone, but there are also deeper changes that make a real difference in how useful the app is. One of the biggest examples of this is the trademark lens that sits in the center of the day ticker in Fantastical. The old design was very heavily influenced by a real magnifying glass, of the type that youd slide over a desk calendar or log book to read a certain entry. The new design retains some of the magnification aspects, but gets winnowed down visually so it doesnt punch you in the eyeballs with its cleverness as much any more. But the design changes didnt stop there. We moved it
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Fantastical 2 Brings Deep Reminders Support, Revamped iOS 7 Look To The Best iPhone Calendar
As my default Calendar replacement app, Fantastical has been on the home screen of my iPhone since its release nearly a year ago. As one of the few pieces of productivity software that I use regularly, I was extremely nervous about how the app was going to change with its iOS 7 update. I shouldnt have worried. Fantastical 2, out today, is one of the best examples of taking the opportunity presented by Apples iOS 7 update and using it for more than just a visual re-skin. Its a fitting return for the only calendar app to have ever hit the #1 spot on Apples paid charts. If youre unfamiliar with Fantastical, its strengths are a natural language parsing engine that lets you dash off regular phrases like meet with Joe at noon on Tuesday at The Crab Shack and end up with a fully inputted calendar entry without ever typing in any numbers. Its clever and powerful and almost always works exactly how you want it to. This is coupled with a unique layout that places either a day ticker of 1 week or a monthly calendar above a simple continuous agenda of appointments. For the second time in as many weeks, weve seen a very popular app with a distinctive feel re-imagined for iOS 7 with great results. While it could be argued that Tweetbot had an even more pronounced visual language, Fantastical hit some notes pretty hard that it couldnt have been easy to give up. Flexibits Michael Simmons says that the decisions made in the re-working of the app went far beyond how to make the visual language of the app fit in with iOS 7. Yes, the staples along the top of the virtual calendar are gone, but there are also deeper changes that make a real difference in how useful the app is. One of the biggest examples of this is the trademark lens that sits in the center of the day ticker in Fantastical. The old design was very heavily influenced by a real magnifying glass, of the type that youd slide over a desk calendar or log book to read a certain entry. The new design retains some of the magnification aspects, but gets winnowed down visually so it doesnt punch you in the eyeballs with its cleverness as much any more. But the design changes didnt stop there. We moved itOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fh_a74I7w8k/
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