This week’s episode of B&A is so great. Like the inspirational slogan painted on the wall of my high school gymnasium, Marco’s new motto should be Go Big or Go Home.

Offscreen is a full-color, quarterly print magazine that connects with people who work online to talk about things related to life offline. It’s a stellar concept with an equally stellar execution.

After coming up $4,000 short in their Kickstarter project last winter, Kai Brach went ahead with the project anyway, and issue number 1 shipped in March.

Now the second issue is available for order, and it has a stellar lineup. To list just a bit of what’s inside: Kai has interviews with Gedeon Maheux, Mark Jardine, Shaun Inman, and Dan Counsell; contributions from Noah Stokes, Kyle Steed, and Chris Glass; and even an essay from yours truly.

My thanks to Flexibits for sponsoring the RSS feed this week to promote Fantastical.

Fantastical is the Mac calendar app you’ll actually love to use. Type in that you have “Lunch with John on Friday at 1pm” and Fantastical will schedule it! Or type in that you need to “Buy milk by Tuesday” and Fantastical will create a reminder with a due date!

Fantastical’s natural language event/reminder creation, beautiful calendar, and gorgeous list make it the best calendar you’ll ever use. Stay on top of your schedule with features like native CalDAV support, automatic alarms for new events, iCal and iOS reminder support, and instant search.

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Dave Lee:

The most important thing for the creative innovator is not a ton of tasks to do but rather the ability to see what’s important to focus on and to focus on that deeply. The creative innovator needs to go deep on a feature or issue, and the deeper they go the more creativity they unleash.

I agree. I’ve found that time management is far more important than task management when it comes to getting creative projects accomplished. Yes I use OmniFocus every day, but the vast majority of its to-do items are not for any current projects I’m working on. Rather I use it for keeping track of the administrative and logistical things I need to do. In fact, if I had someone else to run my business for me and all I had to do was write, I probably wouldn’t have a need for OmniFocus.

This sweet Mac app now has an iPhone counterpart.

Well waddayaknow. There is now an official Instapaper client for Android. Marco Arment commissioned the fine folks at Mobelux to build it. Ellis Hamburger and The Verge got to break the news with an exclusive review of the new app.

A bookshelf, a box, a typewriter, and the hide of an African antelope.

There was a guest on this week’s episode of The B&B Podcast: Pat Dryburgh. We had a lot of fun talking mostly about Apple TV rumors. Also, this is the first time there’s been an After Dark to B&B.

So long as we’re talking about great updates to great apps, here’s another. Quotebook 2.0 answered two critical needs: iPad and iCloud support. But that’s not all. Quotebook also added URL support, so you can now send quotes from other apps such as Instapaper and Launch Center.

Three bucks in the app store.

Yesterday my favorite calendar app got a nice update. Fantastical now supports iCloud reminders.

It’s funny, when I first saw the release notes I thought they meant pop-up notifications for event reminders. But no, it’s the to-do items that exist in your iPhone’s Reminders app. And what’s great is that the same natural text recognition that works for creating events also works for creating reminders.

You just type in “Remind me to call my mom tomorrow” and Fantastical will know you’re creating a reminder, not an event, and set the due date for tomorrow. My only quibble here is that you can’t set a specific time for a reminder, only a day.

You can type into Fantastical the same way you would talk to Siri. I often wish that Siri had a way to type in my commands. If I’m in a place where I can’t or don’t want to speak out loud to my iPhone, it would be quicker and easier if there were a way for me to type in my natural language command for Siri rather than having to manually create an event or reminder.

Brand-new Twitter client for the iPad that has a particular focus: catching up on Twitter conversations amongst those you follow. Quip does this quite differently than the way any other Twitter client does, and I think it’s a great.

It’s a clever app and is very well designed. Federico Viticci has written a full review, including info on how Quip differs from Tweetbot regarding conversation display.

If you use Twitter a lot (I certainly do), Quip makes a good additional Twitter client, and it’s priced right: just $0.99 on the app store.

From Pat Dryburgh, a t-shirt celebrating that nobody’s perfect.

John Gruber reading between the lines:

On Tuesday morning, Presidio [the big, keynote room] is booked for the Developer Tools Kickoff, Game Technologies Kickoff, and What’s New in Cocoa sessions. After that, Presidio is pretty much entirely “TBA” from Tuesday afternoon through the end of the day Thursday.

This implies not just that Apple will be announcing new stuff (duh, it’s WWDC), but new stuff that will fill the biggest room in the building with two-and-a-half days worth of sessions.