Side Calendar 2.1.0 — a calendar that lives at the edge of your screen
Most calendar apps on the Mac fall into two shapes: a full window that takes over your screen, or a tiny menu-bar dropdown that's too small to actually plan in. Side Calendar is built around a third shape — a slide-out side panel that opens from the edge of your display with a keyboard shortcut, sits beside whatever you're working on, and disappears when you're done.
The idea is that checking your day, dragging in a new event, or skimming the week shouldn't require leaving the app you're in. Side Calendar reads from the calendars you already have set up on the Mac (iCloud, Google, Exchange — anything in the system calendar database), so there's no separate account to manage.
Highlights
What's new in 2.1.1
Available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/side-calendar/id1435738245
Happy to answer questions in the thread, and feedback / feature requests from MacRumors folks are very welcome.
Most calendar apps on the Mac fall into two shapes: a full window that takes over your screen, or a tiny menu-bar dropdown that's too small to actually plan in. Side Calendar is built around a third shape — a slide-out side panel that opens from the edge of your display with a keyboard shortcut, sits beside whatever you're working on, and disappears when you're done.
The idea is that checking your day, dragging in a new event, or skimming the week shouldn't require leaving the app you're in. Side Calendar reads from the calendars you already have set up on the Mac (iCloud, Google, Exchange — anything in the system calendar database), so there's no separate account to manage.
Highlights
- Slide-out side panel — opens from the left or right edge via a configurable global shortcut. Can be pinned to stay open or set to auto-hide.
- Two views — agenda and day, switchable in a click.
- Reads your existing Mac calendars — uses the system EventKit store, so iCloud / Google / Exchange / local calendars all show up automatically.
- Menu-bar companion — shows today's date and the next event at a glance.
- Adjustable panel width, background opacity.
What's new in 2.1.1
- Drag to create events — drag across the time grid to block out a range; a plain click no longer creates accidental events.
- Recurring events — create and edit repeating events directly in the panel.
- Configurable global shortcut — bind the show/hide hotkey to whatever fits your setup.
- Custom Settings window with a new appearance picker.
- Polish — resize handles only appear on hover, panel width is remembered between launches, deployment target lowered to macOS 13.5.
Available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/side-calendar/id1435738245
Happy to answer questions in the thread, and feedback / feature requests from MacRumors folks are very welcome.
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