Get organized with Fantastical 2

Fantastical 2 offers plenty of quick tricks to sort out your calendar

The longer we use digital calendars, the more detritus that accumulates. Work events, personal reminders, Facebook birthdays, holidays – before long, your calendar is covered in more dots than a Dalmatian.

Apple’s own Calendars app lacks natural language support, doesn’t integrate your Reminders list, and doesn’t feel particularly streamlined. There is an alternative, though, and it’s a good one: Fantastical 2 ($49.99, flexibits.com).

Yes, it’s quite expensive, but this impressive app combines the work of Apple’s Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts into one easy-to-access place. There’s a Today view widget on iOS (the iPhone app is $4.99, iPad $9.99), and a menu bar shortcut for Mac, so managing your calendar is easier than ever.

Fantastical also supports natural language input. Type in an event or reminder description as you would naturally speak, and Fantastical automatically pulls the time, date, people involved, and more as you type.

In short, with Fantastical 2 you’ll spend less time messing with your calendar and more time actually getting stuff done.

this impressive app combines the work of Apple’ s Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts into one