Fantastical + Notion Split View on iPad: A Practical Guide

You can use Fantastical and Notion together in iPad Split View by opening one app, swiping up from the Dock to grab the second, and dragging it to either side of the screen — but with Splicon, you can turn that whole setup into a single tap from your Home Screen.

Why Fantastical and Notion work well together

Fantastical is a calendar and task app with one of the best natural-language event parsers available. Notion is a flexible workspace where many people store project docs, meeting notes, and databases. The reason they pair so naturally side by side is that your calendar and your context live in different places, and constantly switching between them breaks your thinking.

Having both open at once means you can:

• Prepare for a meeting by reading your Notion brief on the right while checking the event details, attendees, and timing in Fantastical on the left — without losing your place in either app.
• Do a weekly review by scrolling through Fantastical's week view and updating your Notion project tracker in real time, marking tasks complete or shifting priorities as you go.
• Plan a project timeline by referencing a Notion database of deliverables while blocking out focused work sessions directly in Fantastical, so your calendar actually reflects what you need to ship.

This combination works especially well on larger iPad models (iPad Pro and iPad Air), where Split View gives each app enough room to be genuinely usable rather than cramped.

How to set it up with Splicon

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1. Open Splicon and search for Fantastical, then Notion. Select them as your app pair. Splicon pulls in each app's real icon so your shortcut looks polished and recognizable on the Home Screen.
2. Choose a split style — left-heavy, equal, or right-heavy depending on which app you reference more — then generate the combined icon and save it to your Photos library.
3. Open the Shortcuts app, create a new shortcut, and add an "Open App" action. Set it to open both apps using Split View. When prompted to choose an icon, select the image you just saved from Photos.
4. Add the shortcut to your Home Screen using the share sheet inside Shortcuts. Give it a name like "Plan" or "Weekly Review" so it's easy to find.

From that point on, one tap opens both apps exactly where you want them, split the way you set it up.

A few tips once you're up and running

Notion loads faster when the page you need is already pinned as a Favorite — tap the star icon on any page so it appears immediately in your sidebar when the app opens. In Fantastical, set your default view to Week or Day depending on your workflow, so it opens to the most relevant timeline rather than making you navigate every time.

If you run multiple Split View pairs — say, Fantastical with Notion for planning, and Fantastical with Mail for morning triage — Splicon lets you create a separate icon for each combination. You can arrange them in a folder on your Home Screen or in a dedicated row, giving you a simple visual launcher for your most common working modes.

The iPad's Split View feature is genuinely powerful for focused work. The only friction is getting into the right pair quickly. That's exactly the problem Splicon solves.