Event Maker: iCal events, to dos from an email
Event Maker is an app that creates an iCal event or to do from a selected email in Mail.app.
There are no release notes or instructions provided by the developer.
I got this to work by putting it in my Mail scripts folder (~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail), highlighting an email and running it from the Script menu.
It pops up a dialog allowing you to select either an event or a to do:
The subject and contents of the message are copied over into the Title and Notes fields, but the rest you need to fill in yourself.
After the event is created, the app offers you a number of options:
The developer points out that this is “an early release that is missing many features”. He is looking for some user feedback and for an icon for the app. You can contact him by email.
There are various other ways to perform the same task, among them the Mail2iCal and fuhgeddaboutit scripts. The new version of MailTags will also create iCal to dos.
Event Maker is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site 
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Tags: Apple Mail, event, feedback, iCal, mail.app, to do
February 13th, 2006 at 1:53 am
the link is not working for me
February 13th, 2006 at 1:58 am
ok, this is the correct link:
http://solewood.atspace.com/Solewoood/Downloads.html
February 13th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Weird. That link was working yesterday.
Anyway, thanks for the correction. I’ve updated the post.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Does anyone know of a way to automatically update iCal with events from the Evite site? Perhaps by parsing e-mails? Or more directly? Probably this should be a separate topic.
February 26th, 2006 at 8:17 am
[...] Event Maker is a small app that creates events in iCal from a Mail.app message. [...]
September 10th, 2006 at 10:29 am
This is a very fine little app for creating iCal events and ToDo items from inside Mail.app. The one thing I wish it would do is — like MailTags — create a message:// URI in the “URL” field of an iCal event or ToDo that, when selected, will open the email that was used to generate the event or item.