Create iCal events from anywhere
April 15th, 2008 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via Macworld.)
While I rely on iCal to help me track meetings and to dos, I’ve always found the actual process of adding new events and to dos much more complex than it need be. Typically I’ll be in some other application when I realize I need to create a new to do or event, so that entails launching iCal, finding the date on which I want to add the event, double-clicking to create the new event, then (thanks, 10.5) pressing Command-E to bring up the edit box. Creating a to do is somewhat easier, but only because iCal won’t let you pick a due date for your to do until after it’s been created. Thankfully, there’s a solution at hand—one that will let you create new events and to dos (to dos can only be created in 10.5), regardless of which program you may be running at the time. As a side bonus, you can even specify most of the fields at the same time, leaving only minor clean-up work to be done in iCal itself. Although you will have to use Automator, the two workflows you’re going to build are about as simple as they get.
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One Response to “Create iCal events from anywhere”
By Robert Senn on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
My simple workaround has been to use Google Calendar. This way I can add to and change appointments on the fly wherever I am. From work, phone, friend’s house, etc… Wherever. for the phone I just created a “Dump” calendar that syncs via oggSync for my Win Mobile 5 P.O.S. I then dole out where I need to be via the appropriate calendar. It maybe a step or two more than creating a workflow but it does get me around the Windows everywhere else snafu!