Text2cal Grab all the text at once from your email, select the important times and dates, insert the result directly into iCal.
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Grab all the text at once from your email, select the important times and dates, insert the result directly into iCal. Text2cal is a service designed to allow you to grab all the text at once from your email, select the important times and dates from that grabbed text, and insert the result directly into iCal. Text2cal also makes guesses about the times and dates to make it even easier! (currently compatible only with US dates (month/day/year) - come back later for day/month/year compatibility!)Title:The focus starts in the event title field. Type in an event title. Alternately, you can select an appropriate title in the text and hit command-L. Command-L simply brings focus to this field if nothing is selected.Date & Time:Tab to the date or time field and hit up and down arrow to select a date or time from the dates or times guessed from the email. The selected date or time will highlight in the text to show the context. Potential dates will show up in red, times in green, while the menu is open. You may also click on dates or times in the text to select them. If a particular part of the text may be interpreted as a date or a time, your click may be mis-interpreted as the other type of data. In this case, click again and the data will get re-interpreted as the other type. Holding shift while pressing the command key associated with this field toggles through the options. You may also enter a date or time directly - the program will try to fill in missing parts for ambiguous dates. For example, entering "7" into the date field will resolve to the "7th" of the current month, or the "7th of the next month if the current month's 7th is in the past. Day words, such as "tuesday", "tue", "today", "tomorrow" are supported. The "Days in the future" indicator above the date field offers a quick way to make sure the date you've entered is roughly when it ought to be.Calendars:These calendars are taken from iCal. Thus this menu may be grayed out while iCal launches. Holding shift while pressing the command key associated with this field toggles through the options.All Day:Toggle this box to set the event to be all-day, instead of a specific time and duration. command-j toggles this field.Duration:Set the duration of the event. command-h selects the field, then up and down arrows scroll through the selections. times can also be typed in. command-shift-h toggles through the options.Location:This is optional, and allows you to enter the location of an event. If text2cal can guess a location from the text it lists it here. Other locations you have entered in the past are also listed in this menu. To select a location directly from the text, highlight it and press command-R. To cycle through the menu items press command-shift-R.Show iCal after making event:This options sets whether ical should come to front and show you the even you just made. This is recommended for the first few times this software is used, to make sure everything is working properly. command-s toggles this option.Make Event:Click this once all options are set, or press return. This option may be gray while iCal is starting up (just wait a few seconds!). What's New in This Release: · Attempts to figure out if you're in a m/d/y area or d/m/y area and do the right thing. · Added hotkey for using clipboard text instead of selected text for use with incompatible applications.

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