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Calendar App Walkabout
Taking a break from the beloved Fantastical as my main calendar app. A couple of circumstances helped me make the change:
- Access to Vimcal’s Microsoft 365 Beta test.
- Fantastical’s yearly renewal was up last week.
I knew that as long as Fantastical was an option, it would be my comfortable place to go when I didn’t know how to do something in Vimcal. So cancelling (likely just postponing) the subscription helped the experiment.
After a few days of testing Fantastical’s free version, Outlook, Apple Calendar and other’s the current setup is as follows:
- Mac:
- Vimcal in browser (their electron app still doesn’t have support for M365)
- Apple Calendar
- Raycast Calendar for Menubar up-next view of events.
- iPhone/iPad:
- Apple Calendar
- Eventually Vimcal iOS app, but still doesn’t support M365 either.
You might say this is crazy… and you’re right. What can I say? Some people enjoy hours of pain going uphill on bikes, I like to break my perfectly tuned workflows to play with new apps.
Will it hold? Not sure. Vimcal is really good, but not sure if $15 a month good. When the iOS version gets M365 support, I’m will be able to more clearly test it.
At the same time, Superhuman calendar continues to improve (albeit slowly), and on Google it already supports team availability. That’s currently my main blocker for not using its calendar to create events.
Still, I don’t expect Superhuman to come up with iOS Widgets or Apple Watch complications. Knowing that Apple Calendar is can do those tasks is great news.
Going to give Vimcal a few more days before sharing some impressions.