BusyCal 2024.4.3

Busy Apps has released BusyCal 2024.4.3 with a major update for working with tasks in the calendar app. The update now enables tasks to be assigned individual custom durations, adds support for natural language input, allows priorities and due times to be assigned even if the service does not support it, and introduces task statuses (such as In Progress or Needs Action) that can be assigned via a new drop-down menu. BusyCal also now enables you to disable alarms for Events, Tasks, or Journals individually; improves compatibility with NextCloud; works around a Google Calendar change that forced birthdays and anniversaries into the main calendar; resolves an issue where the location field would copy over when creating “Busy Only” time-blocking events on another calendar, improves handling of intermittent server timeouts for Microsoft Office accounts via the Graph API; and adds support for Chinese Simplified and Korean in the Natural Language Input (Quick Entry). ($49.99 new from BusyMac or the Mac App Store, free update, in Setapp, 66.3 MB, release notes, macOS 10.15+)