How To: Add a new iCal event from Quicksilver

This reminds me of something that really annoys me in iCal. Namely that it ignores the system wide date format (i'm british) so i have to think to use mm/dd/yy as i'm used to dd/mm/yy

I don't know if this was changed in the recent update of the TODO and iCAL plugins, but if you format your initial string as: (date/time) -- (title), note the double "--", then the date/time is stripped out of the subject line, for example:

"tomorrow 4pm -- Have lunch with John Doe" (*minus the quotes)

will come up as:

"Have Lunch with John Doe"

Previously it would appear as:

"tomorrow 4pm -- Have lunch with John Doe"

love this! is there a way to add a reminder? i tried just typing it in as part of the date/time (ie "reminder 1 hour before"), but it doesn't seem to register. this would be a great feature if anyone knows the syntax.

thanks,

George

I just want to point out that AHM is precisely correct in what he says about syntax. Many people seem to be messing up by putting the date after the two dashes. It needs to go before. And yes, the syntax is quite allowing in terms of how you state the date. So to summarize:

[date, written in a variet of ways] -- [event or todo name]

*this will put your event where you want it and erase the date from the event title!
*the brackets, of course, do not have to be there
*put exclamation marks in front of the todo name to prioritize if you want
*it must be a double-dash that separates the date and the name if you want the event title format to be correct
*there do not have to be spaces on either side of the double dash
*i have also discovered that there cannot be single-dashes in the todo name; this causes the date information not to be entered into the todo. anyone else experienced this?

quicksilver is the greatest

Brilliant! Working perfectly now with the double dash.

Odd, but when I try entering the string "Dinner and a movie - 9/25 6pm" I end up with an event at 7pm in my calendar. I'm wondering if this is due to timezone/daylight saving issues? Any ideas? My timezone is currently set to CEST (Belgium) and iCal is also set to support timezones since I get meeting requests from other countries in other timezones.

and this is supposed to be easy? c'mon!

Any ideas how to add an ending time to an event? I've tried "to" but that doesn't seem to do it.

The trick seems to be not using --. If I do "Foo--9/30 4pm" I get an event *now* called "9/30 4pm". If I do "Foo-9/30 4pm" I get an event on 9/30 at 4pm called Foo-9/30 4pm. "Foo 9/30 4pm" also works.

Note that the syntax is quite allowing. Try "dinner-next wed 7pm"

Stupid parser.

That should have read

date -- [!!] event

With this syntax, it creates an event "event" on date "date" (including any time you put in - "8pm" "tomorrow 8pm" and "tomorrow" all work as expected) with a title of "event" properly.