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677: Software Club: Fantastical

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Software Club, David and Stephen talk about Fantastical and how it compares to Apple's default Calendar application. Michael Simmons then joins them to discuss Fantastical's history and the changes he's seen in the Apple software ecosystem over the years.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users Episode 677 Software Club for Fantastic Hell.

0:13.5

Hello, everyone. This is David Sparks. I am joined by my co-host today, Mr. Steven Hackett. How are you today, Steven?

0:19.0

I'm great, David. How are you?

0:21.0

I am excellent. And we are here today to talk about Fantastic Hell.

0:27.0

And this is part of our ongoing software club series.

0:30.0

And for those of you that haven't heard the shows before, we've done a couple of them so far.

0:34.0

A software club episode is one where Steven and I spend the first half of the episode discussing an app that we have opinions on.

0:43.0

Whether we like it or what it is usually it's because we like it.

0:47.0

But we go through and talk about what the features are, how we use it.

0:51.0

And then we spend the second half of the episode talking to the apps developer to kind of get a feel for how that app came to be.

0:57.0

And, you know, just interesting questions with the developer.

1:00.0

And today we are going to be doing that for a calendar app called Fantastic Hell.

1:05.0

Yeah, I really like this show format. It's kind of taking our deep dives and our interviews and smashing them together.

1:11.0

Yes, we are. And getting in this story behind the story, I think is always interesting as a power user.

1:18.0

I like to know what kind of the developers were thinking and how they came around.

1:22.0

Like one of the questions today, we're going to have Michael Simmons on from Fantastic Hell.

1:26.0

You know, it's like, why would you make a calendar app when Apple's giving one away?

1:30.0

You know, that's, you know, that's taken on something there, right?

1:34.0

It's competing with a free product.

1:36.0

And I think it'll be fun.

1:38.0

But we want to talk about how we use the app version. Before we get to that, we have a little bit of housekeeping.

1:44.0

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