Comments on: Event Maker 0.4.3: Quick to-dos, events from Mail.app

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:12:30 +0000

Excellent. Thanks for explaining that. It really is a clever little app! :)

By: Mike Abdullah

Mike Abdullah — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:01:01 +0000

Indeed Tim, that is right. A basic rundown is:

Kind: Remembered from the last event you made.
Title: Taken from the e-mail’s subject line.
Calendar: Remembered from the last event you made.
Location: Always blank.
Start: 9am tomorrow.
Length: Set in the Preferences.
Notes: Set in the Preferences. Either blank or copied from the e-mail contents.

There is also a bug in Mail which means that most e-mails with an attachment do not have their contents copied to the notes field.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:38:21 +0000

Thanks, Mike. The date is always 9am but the rest of the fields should pre-populate from the email, shouldn’t they? They do for me.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:48:06 +0000

Thanks, Tim, and thanks Mike. I still really like your application and plan to use it regularly. I just misunderstood its aim at first. Keep up the great job, I for one really appreciate it.

By: Mike Abdullah

Mike Abdullah — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:37:01 +0000

Hi, to clarify, Event Maker does not attempt to read the date from the e-mail you selected. By default, a new event is simply set to 9am the following day.

It is my eventual aim to try and do this with Event Maker, however at present I do not have the time available to write a system to perform this rather tricky analysis. One day!

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:59:47 +0000

That sounds weird to me. Why not drop the developer Mike Abdullah a note? He’s a nice guy.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:30:01 +0000

It prepopulates the form, but only with tomorrow’s date, 9 am, regardless of the content of the email I have selected.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:01:18 +0000

I prepopulates the event for me. How are you using it?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:18:25 +0000

I was under the impression that EventMaker would at least make an attempt to identify date/time info for a new event from the content of a message, but it doesn’t seem to in any of the cases I’ve just tried. Is this the case, or have I misconfigured it somehow?