2/21/2023 0 Comments Omnifocus fantastical![]() ![]() ![]() Sign up for the MPU email newsletter and join the MPU forums. Try it free for a month with code 'MACPOWER'. Indeed: Join more than three million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast.TextExpander: Get 20% off with this link and type more with less effort! Expand short abbreviations into longer bits of text, even fill-ins, with TextExpander.1Password: Have you ever forgotten a password? You don't have to worry about that anymore.This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: This week, David and Stephen discuss the company's announcements and review iOS 16. But it's so fast and convenient, that once you're used to it, you will keep finding more use for it.Ĭardhop is available alongside Fantastical in a Flexibits Premium bundle from $3.33 per month.Apple has announced its slate of iPhones and Apple Watches for the year and has major software releases right around the corner. You have to be using contacts a lot, and you also have to take some time to explore Cardhop. Later, then, you can also type something like "copy Stephanie email." Just doing that will take the email address out of Stephanie's contact card and put it on your clipboard. If you don't have any Stephanies, then typing that same thing will create one in the list, and then add that phone number. If you already have one Stephanie in your contacts list, just typing this will add that new phone number to her entry. As with calendars, third-party contact apps use Apple's own engine, it uses the same data that you may have put into Apple Calendar.īut what you can do with Cardhop is open it, type "Stephanie 555-1234" or some other number. ![]() But if you need it, if it helps you, then you tend to need it a lot and it tends to help you enormously.Ĭardhop is a replacement for the Contacts app on iPhone and Mac. This is perhaps the most specific and so therefore the least widely-applicable productivity app. The two together cost from $3.33 per month. And then when you say "five weeks from Tuesday," you see the blocked-out hour jump from today to exactly the right date.įantastical is a subscription app that is available from Flexibits in a Premium bundle with the last of our app recommendations, the contacts manager, Cardhop. Type "Lunch with Stephanie" and Fantastical will offer you a list of all the Stephanies in your contacts book. As you type the word "lunch," for instance, you can see an hour is blocked out on your calendar from noon today. Most calendars have this now, but still Fantastical is the best at it because of how it visually shows you what it is thinking. This is how you can say you want to add "Lunch with Stephanie five weeks from Tuesday" and know that your calendar will figure out the right date, and even the right time. They can be easier to use, they can have more features, but they are sufficiently better that there is a market for them.įantastical was the first to introduce natural language parsing, too. More than the fact that Apple provides a Calendar app, is how it is Apple's one that actually powers practically every other calendar app in existence.Īlmost regardless of what third-party calendar app you buy, the calendar itself, the very data with your appointments, is still handled by Apple's own calendar engine.Įven so, though, there are many third-party apps that are simply better calendars than Apple's one. It starts from $19.99 on either platform.įantastical is a calendar app and you shouldn't need it because you've already got one. Keep adding to your idea until it's all down there in OmniOutliner and then start massaging it, rearranging it, building on it, until you have something you can go work with. Read that list and realise there's an obvious fifth thing to add - or that you've lost interest in the first thing. Get that one thought down now and in five minutes or five days, add a second thing you've thought of. Any idea, whether that's for a great fantasy novel series or just what you're going to do on your vacation, you can throw it into OmniOutliner. However, we call it an ideas manager because that's what it's really about. Use this and you'll not go back to Microsoft Word's leaden outlining tool. You can use it for that and it has proven remarkably, just remarkably useful for it. As the name underlines, you can use this for outlining as an author working on a novel, or an academic writing a paper. ![]()
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