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The integration Omnifocus offers with my calendar is also useful, as is the link to Spark, which enables me to quickly throw in emails as tasks. I love the fact I can glance at the calendar view and see how many tasks I have coming up each day. IвЂ™ve developed a complete affinity with a very specific bunch of features it offers, and without it, IвЂ™d be lost at sea. IвЂ™m massively underutilising Omnifocus, but I donвЂ™t care. Beyond that, I use the repeating tasks function, notes andвЂ¦ thatвЂ™s about it. But I just add my to-dos in each day and assign them a project. Get Things Done (GTD) aficionados will love the way you can fine tune your inbox, tasks, projects, tags, forecasts and reviews. ItвЂ™s therefore slightly ironic that I really only use Omnifocus as nothing more than a glorified to-do list. This is partly because IвЂ™m so deep into it now that turning back the clock and opting for a different app would take far longer than itвЂ™s worth, but itвЂ™s also because I enjoy the raw power and headroom offered by Omnifocus. The only one that has ever stuck is Omnifocus. Just like writing apps, IвЂ™ve gone back and forth between to-do list apps. The time this saves accumulatively during the week is transformative. вЂњMeeting tomorrow at 2pm with Dave in the board room for two hours remind meвЂќ, for instance, will force Fantastical to place a calendar item with every detail perfectly filled in, from the description to the exact duration, location and reminder. Simply drop down the aforementioned mini calendar, and in the text input field at the top, start typing your calendar entry. Secondly, it has what is perhaps the best AI calendar input system IвЂ™ve ever used. As glanceability goes, itвЂ™s perfect I use it to quickly check what IвЂ™m doing next and for grabbing a date when needed.

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Click it, and youвЂ™re treated to a little calendar which shows a full month followed by today and tomorrowвЂ™s upcoming events. ItвЂ™s hard to get too excited about a calendar app, but Fantastical boasts two features which make it an absolute gem.ДЇirstly, it features a lovely widget that sits in your menu bar. Which would be such a shame, because Spark really is the best email client IвЂ™ve ever used. If this issue continues, I might have to look elsewhere. IвЂ™ve just checked and, as usual, itвЂ™s sitting like a naughty child under the вЂњUsing Significant EnergyвЂќ list in the macOS battery drop-down menu. And I say вЂњI thinkвЂќ, because IвЂ™m not entirely sure if thatвЂ™s why Spark is one of the main battery hogs on my M1 MacBook Air. Where it falls down is, I think, memory management. The way it displays email threads is also as clear as it should be (I find other email clients make an absolute pigвЂ™s ear of this) and I love the вЂsend laterвЂ™ and вЂremind meвЂ™ features. It also has a genuinely useful вЂSmart InboxвЂ™ feature which groups emails by type in a way that finally makes sense for my email workflow.

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It effortlessly syncs between devices and makes setting up email on a new Mac or iOS device as simple as signing into just one of your email accounts (everything is backed up and synchronised, including additional email accounts you have connected, settings and signatures). On the one hand, itвЂ™s probably the best email client IвЂ™ve used (and IвЂ™ve tried a lot). If IвЂ™m honest, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Spark. ItвЂ™s even taught me the basics of Markdown, which everyone should learn. Pretty much everything I write starts its life in Ulysses. Yet, if I need to refer to research material, I can run Ulysses in a number of multi window/pane modes to avoid constant alt-tabbing. For instance, I can immediately switch to an all-screen, distraction-free word processor if I want. I think itвЂ™s UlyssesвЂ™ ability to strip back the writing experience yet retain useful productivity features is what does it for me. For instance, itвЂ™s damn near impossible to find the date you created each document, and despite the cross-device syncing being less convoluted than ScrivenerвЂ™s (which relied on Dropbox), it sometimes flat out _refuses_ to synchronise any changes.Д«ut I love it. ThatвЂ™s when I found Ulysses, and I havenвЂ™t looked back. Up until a couple of years ago, Scrivener was my writing tool of choice, but a number of frustrating bugs and rather archaic syncing setup forced me elsewhere. Microsoft Word (yuck), iA Writer, Bear, Notes, Byword, Google Docs and Scrivener have all received a thorough going over during my daily content work. IвЂ™ve gone back and forth between a number of writing apps.

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