Although the iCal plugin does its best to parse the date, time and content from your text string, you can help it along.

The documentation for the Quicksilver iCal plugin sets out the correct syntax. For events, it expects your text to look like:

For to-dos:

NB: Those long dashes are actually two hyphens.

Adding exclamation marks increases the priority of the to-do.

UPDATE: As Cooper points out in the comments, you need to enable Quicksilver’s advanced features option to make this work:

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