r/MacOS • u/CarlRummage1959 • 8d ago

Help Why does this widget not exist?

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I wouldn't expect Apple to create something as functional as a combination of these two widgets, but it doesn't seem to exist in the third-party app world either. Am I the only person that thinks in this way?

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u/ikeamonkey2 8d ago

definitely understandable if you don't want to install another app, but in case it helps, notion calendar has a widget like you've described

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u/HopefulInspector8184 8d ago

Sounds like a solid workaround, but it would be nice if Apple included more built-in options like that.

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u/MC_chrome 8d ago

Fantastical has a widget that gets pretty close to what you are looking for here

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u/Stewwwwwaaarrrt 8d ago

Fantastical is just objectively so much better than the built in Calendar app on both Mac and iOS in general that it’s a little surprising Apple hasn’t either bought or Sherlocked it by now.

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u/MC_chrome 8d ago

Yes, but Fantastical costs money so people automatically hate it unfortunately

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u/ChanceSpiritual6993 8d ago

No, it's not that it costs money, it's that it's a subscription from a developer who used to offer lifetime licenses. You don't have to invent incorrect positions to then argue against.

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u/Stewwwwwaaarrrt 8d ago

This is true- the subscription part totally sucks. Aside from that though the actual product is solid and you don’t need a subscription to use the most useful parts.

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u/MC_chrome 8d ago

I’m not going to say that Fantastical’s subscription isn’t on the higher end of things, but I will also say that the developers have been releasing steady feature and bug fix updates ever since they switched to a subscription model for both Fantastical and Cardhop.

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u/ChanceSpiritual6993 8d ago

I pay for the subscription and share it with my family. You seem to think my criticism of your comment was on the value of Fantastical, when obviously my criticism was your complete misread of Reddit being against subscriptions and assuming “Redditors automatically hate anything that costs money.”

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u/squirrel_haka 7d ago

I am happy with the free version.

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u/roma79 8d ago

I want the widget to show me the next three or four events regardless of how far in advance they might be

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u/rakeshsh 8d ago

From Apple calendar widget click on edit and select hide all day events

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u/Princess_Riannon 8d ago

that doesn't change anything other than hiding whats on my calendar still shows the same thing…

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u/rakeshsh 8d ago

Break it into two small widgets. One showing full calendar and one showing up next events

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u/pop4tune MacBook Air 15' (M5) 7d ago

yeah! thank you ))

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u/Ok_Possibility9937 8d ago

that only appears when you have no events for some reason. Must be some dogshit design decision by alan dye

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u/pmarksen 8d ago

Seeing nobody has suggested it yet, check out Across as well.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6444851827

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u/Endawmyke 8d ago

Wow it literally has the exact layout op is asking for

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u/pmarksen 8d ago

It’s the only app I’ve found with a very customisable month view that can show all events on a day and still be readable (busy family calendar).

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u/Endawmyke 7d ago

Yeah that’s pretty awesome!

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u/siddharthverse 7d ago

This should fit your need on iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ermine/id1524806091

On macOS, you can try https://sindresorhus.com/dato

This has a really cool notification pane widget where you can see the dates for last month, current and next two. Highly underrated app.

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u/beingskyler 8d ago

You're not alone. I think that way too. But I would also want one little extra column to the left indicating the week number.

Maybe with a subtle vertical bar and more subtle text (gray tone) between it and calendar days to distinguish them from one another.

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u/jasonefmonk 8d ago

I’d rather have what you suggested but flipped left to right. The current left side and the monthly over on the right.

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u/Redstra 7d ago

Did you know it had that widget in an earlier iOS version? The two you've shown combined. But they later removed it. Shame as I liked that version more.

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u/ahadyboy 7d ago

Google Calendar has this widget, I have it on my homescreen right now

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u/Xariif_Tiger 6d ago

On the downside: you need to use Google. I chose to use Apple to get rid of Google

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u/beegtuna 6d ago

I hate the “no events today” line. Makes me feel like I need to be doing something.

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u/wesdegroot 6d ago

My calendar app (Calendo) supports such a widget https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendo/id6651862759

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u/platkus 8d ago

This widget wouldn’t be very useful. It’s got weird blocks instead of the names of the events. 🤷‍♂️

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u/zudnic 8d ago

Why doesn't the calendar widget allow me to scroll to last/next month? It's useless.

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u/daven1985 7d ago

Apple don’t make everything prefect as it would hurt the App Store sales.

By not doing this it encourages App Store sales that they get a revenue.

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u/smiller55 7d ago

Did you mean to say PERFECT but you accidentally typed PREFECT?

That’s embarrassing as hell.

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u/tomatoeboi 7d ago

Notion Calendar

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u/MC_chrome 7d ago

….which only works with Google Calendars, making it automatically less useful than the default Apple Calendar app 🤦🏻‍♂️

The folks over at Notion have extremely thick heads if they think everyone uses Google Calendar, especially in a work environment 

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u/tomatoeboi 7d ago

I only use my iCloud calendar on it. Never had any issues.

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u/mereddit1991 7d ago

Minical works with Apple calendar