[guptaneil]

OP, this is a gorgeous date picker with some clever ideas. Great work! As others have noted, clever ideas do mean there’s a learning curve which is not ideal for something like a date picker. However, if this were in an app I use very regularly, I personally wouldn’t mind the initial learning curve for a more efficient input.

I see a lot of requests in this thread for just typing the date. I agree that natural language input like Fantastical is the best experience. I built an open-source NLP date parsing library[1] so I have a lot of interest in this, but even I’ll admit the reason it’s not more common is that internationalization is extremely difficult when dealing with user input. There are 100 ways an English speaker might enter a date, and 20000 ways an international user might. Depending on your user base, it’s often easier to just use a fixed input space.

1: https://github.com/neilgupta/Sherlock