{"id":59,"date":"2007-03-31T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/gmail\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-04-04T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:12:40","slug":"add-event-to-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckchat.com\/gmail\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Add Event to Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listener <a href=\"http:\/\/sholden.typepad.com\">Steve Holden<\/a> pointed out that while reading messages, he noticed that the Gmail web interface has a link on the right side of the screen to add the event to your Google calendar when a date appears in the body of the message.  I tried doing little experimenting to see if I could trigger the link, but was unsuccessful. Once Steve sent me a sample, I found out the format.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a line of text in your message, then on the next line a date followed by a semicolon and a time, the link will appear.  Gmail is pretty good about recognizing a wide format of dates.  I have used month\/day\/year digits as well as spelling out the month then digits a comma and a year.  As long as the date and time are on their own line and a semicolon separates them, the link will appear.  I will include some examples in the show notes on the web site.<\/p>\n<p>My Special Event<br \/>\nApril 3, 2007; 5:00PM<\/p>\n<p>Pay Taxes (US)<br \/>\n4\/15\/2007; 8:00AM<\/p>\n<p>Why is this useful you ask? For the same reason Gmail presents a link when it recognizes package tracking IDs or a Google Map link when it recognizes an address &#8211; to be more helpful and save you time. When sending an email to a gmail user, you can include a date and time for an event and have it easily added to the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Quick Tip: If you have shortcut keys enabled, you can use the &#8220;#&#8221; key to delete messages. From the conversation index, begin by checking the messages, or using the &#8220;x&#8221; key, then clicking &#8220;#&#8221;. 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