Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Email2ICal Bob Ippolito and Robert Patterson crave an email2iCal script too so I persist. I've discovered that the apple command pbpaste provides access to OSX clipboard contents. So my python script could get access to email text that way, process the text, create an iCal file and open the file (causing iCal to enter the event subject to my approval). I can make that happen. But I wonder if a python script can somehow take responsibility for copying selected text to the clipboard (simulating Cmd-C perhaps?). I'm sure I'll forget that step. Does anyone know? comments? [] 11:54:22 PM     Spring and Curio, and calendars It's the (lack of) simple things that kill you. Why can't I drag information into a calendar program, have the calendar scan the information for date and time(s) and automatically schedule the event subject to my approval. Or forward an emailed invitation to a similarly competent calendar-bot with the prepended subject heading "Next Tuesday"? Anyway, this led me somehow to two very interesting new programs for the mac-- Spring and Curio. Not sure what I think yet, but they are certainly impressive creations by interesting programmers. (And no, neither does calendaring.) comments? [] 1:15:38 AM

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