It looks really nice.<p>Note that macOS already has this kind of -- just add the month-view calendar widget and it'll appear alongside the other widgets (click the datetime in the menubar to show widgets).<p>But it only shows the current month -- no arrows for next month (since widgets aren't interactive). But click it and it'll bring up the full Calendar app with monthly arrow navigation.
Here's another alternative: Itsycal<p>brew install itsycal<p><a href="https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/</a><p>I like that you can customise the menu bar formatting, even adding custom messages.
Love it!<p>MacOS is great by many measures, but it's interesting devs keep developing apps to replicate what other operating systems do and are considered basic features (rectangle, alttab, bartender, calendar).<p>Don't want to start a flame war, but I'm not a big fan of Finder, I hope there was a replacement that worked more like what we have on Windows/Gnome/KDE.
Very nice.<p>Reminds me of a Steve Jobs(?) quote about how things like are should be a feature not a product. Gnome has this built in and I think Windows does too. I recall a number of times when I wanted to look at dates while using a mac and had to open the Calendar app to do that instead of just using a calendar widget in the OS menu/task bar.
Just as a note if you're looking for similar programs or alternatives, Shaun Inman[0] released something like this a long time ago called Day-0. I've been using it on the MacBook I'm currently typing this on since 2012.<p>He's updated it a few times over the years to deal with new versions of macOS not cooperating with the old build.<p>Website seems to be down due to Media Temple merging into GoDaddy, according to the description of the GitHub repo[1] mirroring the old content, but the Day-0 zip archives[2] are still there. Of course, it feels weird to download and install a zip from a GitHub archive without any context, so I guess it's probably dead now.<p>There'<p>I think the first version was released sometime around 2011 and the most recent update[3] was in 2020.<p>---<p>[0]: <a href="https://twitter.com/shauninman" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/shauninman</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com">https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com/tree/main/assets/downloads">https://github.com/shauninman/shauninman.com/tree/main/asset...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230317115926/https://shauninman.com/archive/2020/04/08/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock_for_catalina" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20230317115926/https://shauninma...</a>
(offtopic rant follows)<p>I wish I had space for more menu bar icons. Or let me rephrase it, I wish OSX would allow me to manage them myself. I don't get how it's not an out of the box feature, considering every single app likes to put an icon there (however useless it may be) and that we have limited estate there with the macbook bumps.
The seems to be an interesting fermium play for their Dato (paid) app. Interesting!<p>I currently pay for Fantastical. I don’t even use it much, because our company uses Google Calendar, and booking in the web app is superior (I can access/add meeting rooms, etc.).<p>What I haven’t been able to do is sync my work and family calendars (so my wife doesn’t double book me or vice versa).<p>I also really like the full-screen takeover by Dato (again, from the article’s author), don’t know why Fantastical doesn’t have that!
Man, I don't know why I remember all this stuff. It is exhausting.<p>So I remembered : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318</a><p>> Hey HN,<p>> I’m Jordan from Superpowered (<a href="http://superpowered.me/">http://superpowered.me/</a>), here with my co-founders Nikhil, Nick, and Ibrahim. We’re building a calendar app for the Mac menu bar.*
Itsycal is also free and does more. Install from Homebrew or <a href="https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/</a>
It’s mind boggling that this isn’t a native feature. I’ve been using minical, and this looks really nice. I suppose I’ll never understand why Apple doesn’t just add two buttons to their calendar so we can scroll months.
Appreciate the effort from the author, however there is a similar app called Mini Calendar that I use and love for what it does:
<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-calendar/id1088779979?mt=12" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-calendar/id1088779979?mt=...</a><p>It shows up in the dock with the current date and also has an option to be shown in the menu bar as well
Ah, how many of these do we need?<p><a href="https://quickviewcalendar.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://quickviewcalendar.com/</a>
> <i>Non-App Store Version</i><p>> <i>A special version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won’t receive automatic updates. I will update it here once a year.</i><p>Looks nice but not sure why you don't just put it on Homebrew instead of updating the non-app store version once a year.