I was listening to an audiobook the other day, and just as a casual aside the author talked about sending an email to Fantastical to schedule an event. I’ve never heard of this. I can’t find anything online about it. And the author of said book isn’t a technology person - so I have no idea whether they’re even using the correct terms.
But has anybody heard of this sort of thing, for any calendar app?
In my “perfect world”, I would imagine forwarding an email that OBVIOUSLY contains calendar info, but not an ICS file, and the calendar just picking it up. Or some sort of format where I could email “December 9th, 8 pm, zoom call with Dave” and a calendar would pick it up.
This would open up some useful automation/workflow possibilities.
I regularly add events from email and text messages to my Apple Calendar. The only problem encountered is when using the NHS app and my hospital consultant schedules an appointment although the app has an “Add to Calendar” button it never works. The hospital has outsourced its messaging to a company called Netcall which may be the cause of the problem. Bit of a ****er when I have follow-up appointments to be scheduled. These need to be added manually. Except at this moment it tries to add the future appointment as NOW rather than the date/time in the message.
I actually have that set up via Fastmail. My problem is that lots of people send me dates/times/Zoom links/etc. without bothering to include ICS files.
That’s a possibility. I’ll have to dig into that, and whether or not they’ll do what I need. Thanks!
It feels like the sort of thing that somebody could maybe use Zapier or something for – but I would not want to use an external service and give it access to my stuff.
