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HaCK 73:

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Google’s Quick Add functionality can be accessed from outside

Google Calendar, too.

You might have come across the Quick Add feature at the left side of Google Calendar, pictured in

Figure 7-24. It’s like a freestyle text input eld to create a new event, and accepts sentences like the

following:

meeting with Frank 7pm tomorrow

call julia at 1pm

family lunch next Tuesday at 14:00

ski trip 10/20 - 10/26

Japanese language course every Thursday 7-8pm for 6 months

If you’re on a supported U.S. cellphone carrier, you can also send sentences like these to Google from your

cell phone. As shown in

, you can send a message like “next” or “day” to the short code 48368 and

retrieve calendar entries. Congure Google Calendar for mobile phone support as described in that hack, and

then try sending a sentence like the example ones to 48368.

You can also press the shortcut q while in Calendar to bring up the Add box. But what’s even quicker

than opening Google Calendar to add a quick event? Not opening the calendar, and still adding a

quick event! And if you use Firefox to browse the Web, you’re lucky. Elias Torres’ Quick Add extension

runs under Firefox and lets you open a Quick Add prompt whenever you need it, no matter which

web site you’re on.

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Quick-adding your events in Google ...