Hawk Wings has covered it before (three and a half years ago!).

It disappeared for a while. I found myself emailing the app out to readers who asked for it, but now it is back on the Internet, hosted on the Small Steps Forward web site .

Nothing has changed. It should still work in Tiger, as it did before, and seems to work fine in Leopard. (UPDATE: Things are not quite as smooth in Leopard as I thought. While it works OK for me, see the comments for some particular quirks.)

You can read about the speed advantages of its interface and its clever tricks in the earlier post. An image of its clean interface gives a hint of the benefits:

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There are lots of other quicker options (Quicksilver, MailTags, Event Maker if you are still using Tiger).

Leopard users can now add Do-It to the list.

This stand-alone app offers a “quick entry” interface for the creation of iCal events.

Fire it up with a few keystrokes in Quicksilver or have it ready to click in the Dock, and it quickly provides you with an interface that is tab-friendly and easy to navigate:

The disk image includes Tiger- and Leopard-specific builds.

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