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10.4: Create new iCal events from anywhere
Authored by: patniemeyer on Fri, Sep 21 2007 at 6:23AM PDT

What I would really love is a free-form text calendar entry creator... I'd like to be able to copy and paste text in reasonable forms, e.g. "next wednesday 2pm - blah blah blah" and have it create an entry.

If something like this doesn't appear in Leopard I may write a desktop widget to do it.

10.4: Create new iCal events from anywhere
Authored by: JJMartin on Fri, Sep 21 2007 at 8:40PM PDT

Would the text2cal service do what you want? [link:]http://www.oatbit.com/~jg/index.php?w=newsite/files/text2cal/ I've been using it for several months to convert selected text from an e-mail or from any other source to an event in iCal. It's not perfect, but it works for me.

10.4: Create new iCal events from anywhere
Authored by: PancakeMan on Tue, Oct 2 2007 at 5:47PM PDT

Thanks for the tip - neat program!