Pragmatism in the real world

Always expand the Fantastical editor popover

My preferred calendar app for the Apple ecosystem is Fantastical as I’ve found that it meets my needs well. One minor irritant is that the editor popover defaults to a collapsed view and I have to expand it to see everything, in particular the notes field which I use frequently.

I recently discovered that there’s a hidden preference to change this. It’s set via a custom url of x-fantastical3://defaults?key=AlwaysShowAll&value=1&type=bool&group=1. Just click this link to set and it will open in Fantastical and change the setting.

There’s a helpful dialog to tell you what’s going to happen too:

Given that the Settings panel has an Advanced tab, you’d have thought that they could have put this in there.

To reset, use this link to unset which sets the value to zero.

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