RE: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-22 Thread Jeff Bishop
Yeah, I am looking at the Apple Script solution now. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Parsons Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:06 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: quick calendar data

Re: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yeah, I was always a bit surprised when the writers at MacWorld would often recommend Fantastical for this reason. Ever since I started using a Mac with Lion iCal/Calendar has supported natural language. I agree the best way to add so many events will be through a public calendar you can subscr

Re: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-21 Thread Christina C.
That's awesome, thanks! I wonder if that used to not be available back when I purchased fantastical. I can also highlight text in documents and bring up the context menu and then click send to fantastical. That comes in handy sometimes. Sent from Christina's iMac :) On Jun 21, 2013, at 3:27 PM,

Re: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Hall
I don't use that app, but the calendar app on the Mac already supports natural language. If I open Calendar, hit cmd-n, and type "meet Joe at 10 am at the hospital", the date, time, location, and title are all filled out for me when I press enter. On Jun 21, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Christina C. wrote

Re: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-21 Thread Christina C.
I use fantastical to enter my calendar events. I do not use the calendar portion of the app but I just use it for event entry by typing the event in natural language. As a thought, you should see if the ACB convention has a public calendar that you could subscribe to then you would not have to e

Re: quick calendar data entry on the Mac

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Hall
How would you input these entires? I mean, are they in some sort of formatted text file? If they are, you should investigate Applescript if you can't find an app to do the job. On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Jeff Bishop wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone found a decent app for entering a bunch of ca