May 31, 2012 
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For Mac users out there, this free App looks to be a great add-on. Check the video at the link below, or purchase via the AppStore.
CoBook puts a menu bar icon in reach, where adding a contact is much quicker. It also lets you search LinkedIn and Twitter for each persons profile and photo too. It’s free, and for me, makes accessing contact data a mite quicker.
AppStore link here
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Oh I’m excited. If this is as cool as it looks I’ll be in address book fantasy land. In a strange twist of fate I decided to get rid of iCal this morning in favour of “Fantastical” for it’s low footprint size, it’s ease of operation, etc. Basically the same reasons someone might like CoBook yet I can’t believe CoBook is free. I’m trying it out now, trying not to get too excited.
I haven’t jumped into Fantastical yet – what would be your key reasons to do so?
It’s UI is really nice and unobtrusive and it is just super efficient. For instance, clicking the hotkey you can immediately type a new meeting using natural language and it will fill in the fields right in front of you so you know it’s working as it should. Very quick and efficient way to get a contact in. And of course it is also a backhanded way of assert your dislike for lame faux-leather interfaces. ;^)
I’m trying Fantastical – although I wish it had a large week or month view. It does make editing items quicker, and having it in the menu bar is good.
Ken: Check this one out too: http://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop/
I use “Yoink” for this drag and drop functionality. It’s also in the app store ($2.99 in US store). It works nicely.
BTW, a few more comments on Fantastical and iCal:
1. I agree it would be nice if Fantastical had a “large form” view as an option. I don’t need this often but I do need it sometimes. I guess for this I’ll fire up iCal.
2. A weakness I found with Fantastical — unless I just haven’t cracked the code — is that you can’t schedule meetings with others. That’s a big limitation for me.
3. One thing I LOVE about NOT having iCal always running is that I don’t get those immediate notifications of new events coming into my calendar. This “feature” fucks me off consistently as it suddenly swings you from your work environment over to your calendar regardless of whether you’re mid-sentence or not. Finally it often transports me to iCal only to tell me that there was an error and no event was actually added to my calendar. Huh?
I run my work email using an Exchange server and Outlook, as I’d already given up trying to live in the corporate world with iCal.
WRT to Fantastical, I now see that you can add others when you first book it but I see no way to add people after the fact. That’s less of an issue but still an annoyance.
Really? I find that iCal integrated with Google works pretty well. In “startup world” this is the defacto standard in the same way that Outlook/Exchange is in the corporate world.
For the investment with the arch enemy Microsoft you can send and receive meeting invitations without those dorky error messages from iCal. Now if only they’d fix the sync between Address Book and Outlook life would be easier. Having to maintain two address books is also dorky.
BTW, if you do you use gmail at all … check out the Rapportive plugin. It’s now owned by LinkedIn but they haven’t destroyed it yet. It’s similar yet different to CoBook in approach. I love it when I’m using email in-browser. It actually seems to provide more information than CoBook but I’m still liking CoBook.