New Updates to Fantastical & Drafts

This is a quick update to talk about the two most important updates of the week. The first one of them is Fantastical 2, which is a paid upgrade of the famous calendar app with x-callback-url. The other one is Drafts, which got an important bug fix.

Fantastical’s url scheme changed a little bit¹, so if you haven’t bought it yet, do it and update your actions with the fantastical2:// handler instead of fantastical://. There were no further addition to the url scheme, but the feature list looks great.

The other update I want to talk about is Drafts, which got an important quick fix for users using encoded actions within actions². In the 3.5.3 update, Greg added a new tag to stop actions when they meet an empty field in Drafts, which is definitely important when you use recursive actions as I described in a previous article. A bug affected the url encoding using {{}} and we were unable to exploit this new feature until the recent update. Now the new tag, allowEmpty, works graciously and you should include it to your recursive actions with a NO value³. This is the updated example I used in the aforementioned article using Pinner.

Pin Them All:

pinner://x-callback-url/bookmark?href=[[title]]&tags=[[line|2]]&x-source=Drafts&x-success={{drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=[[line|3..]]&action=Pin%20Them%20All&afterSuccess=Delete&allowEmpty=NO}}&x-cancel={{drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=[[line|3..]]&action=Pin%20Them%20All&afterSuccess=Delete&allowEmpty=NO}}

But what if we grab the best from both updates and overhaul Eric Pramono’s first approach to recursive actions using Fantastical? This is the outcome:

Add Events to Fantastical:

fantastical2://x-callback-url/parse?sentence=[[title]]&x-success={{drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=[[body]]&action=Add%20Events%20to%20Fantastical&afterSuccess=Delete&allowEmpty=NO}}&x-cancel={{drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=[[body]]&action=Add%20Events%20to%20Fantastical&afterSuccess=Delete&allowEmpty=NO}}

Works like a charm.