Quick Google Calendar Tip: Say it All in One Line!
Here’s some quick advice for lazy folks out there. If you’re using Google calendar, you don’t have to enter the detailed view just to add the basic information on a new entry you’re creating. Instead, you can just type it in with one line.
To add a new event, for example, I click on a date on Google Calendar to bring up the new entry “bubble” (it looks like a speech bubble from a comic book!). Say I wanted to change the time to reflect 12 to 3 p.m. instead of the time I clicked (8 a.m.). Instead of clicking on the edit event details link, I just type in the time along with the event description. Say, I want to set the event for a meeting with Jim from 12 to 3, I just say:
12-3 Meet with Jim.
Notice that I also added something after “at”–this is the location of the meeting. So if I say Meet with Jim at Starbucks, Google calendar will automatically set this as the location.
Once I save the event, Google would already set 12 to 3 p.m. as the time of the event.
On closer inspection, Google has already included the string after “at” as the event location.
It’s not really rocket science. But it’s a faster and easier way to do things. It’s pretty straightforward, but I think some users may have been overlooking this feature.
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I’ve played around with some word combinations on the Line before. Has anyone found a list of keywords that are understood by the event processor? I believe the @ symbol is a keyword for time rather than location. It would be nice to have a keyword for selecting the calendar to add the event to other than the default.
Unfortunately in the German version neither at, or, or in works for Location
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Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know of a way to control the reminder time via single-line entry? Or a way to select which calendar the entry will go on? It’s not really needed when entering events within GCal but it would be cool for use with the Quick Entry firefox plugin.
Lovely. Thanks for the tip!
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