Currently without using the app you either have to open a full blown Calendar application or use your phone calendars or search for it in the browser. It definitely solves a huge pain point for me. I can’t tell you how many times a day I think about a specific date in the future and click on it just to check date/day of the week. You can set it up in quite a few ways to connect it to calendars, show events, etc. This makes it very easy and fast to quickly check date-related information. Itsycal is a small calendar application that lives in the menubar.
In this post, I highlight 5 free and super handy dandy utilities for the mac. It lives in your menu bar on top right and is activated on click. By itself, MacOS is very capable but there are a few third-party apps that really make it shine. So, in macOS, you can see the date, the day of the week, and time on the bar, but unlike Windows, you cannot just click on it to open up a calendar, and that is annoying. The next app on the list is Itsycal, which solves a big problem for me on Mac. It’s not quite OSS (not mentioned on the website or Github at least), but it is free to use utility. By default, Itsycal displays a small rectangular icon with the day of the month in the menu bar. What I am speaking of is a quick and simple way to look at dates on the calendar (in Windows it exists by clicking on time in the bottom right corner):Ībove is a screenshot of an app that I’ve been using for a while called Itsycal. I downloaded latest Itsycal (0.10.14) and installed with the following procedure: cd /Applications sudo unzip /Downloads/Itsycal.zip I tried various ways to invoke. I’m currently using a Mac at work as well and it is such a glaring omission that I get frustrated daily.
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There is one glaring feature that Mac OS misses and is definitely a frustration. And quite frankly, those reasons can become so specific today that at the end of the day there is no difference to a regular user considering that more and more services live mostly in the browser. I’m not going to get into the many reasons to chose Mac over Windows.
There is a big gripe that I have with Mac OS and I’m going to share about it with you.And introduce you to Itsycal.