I use the Calendar on Mac. I launch Calendar with the keyboard commander, press 
command-n to create a new event, and then type in the event details in natural 
language and press return. Fantastical is another option I’ve played with which 
is even faster – it sits in the menu bar and can be triggered with a hot key 
trigger, and the event details typed straight in – but for now I still prefere 
Apple’s native Calendar app on Mac.

> On 27 Jul 2015, at 7:01 pm, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> When I need to make an appointment at work, I don’t have much time. Probably 
> 5 seconds to say yes or no to someone’s request if they can come back then or 
> then, and another few seconds to plan the appointment before life goes on. I 
> used to have a note taker that did the job, but its life time is over now and 
> I’m doing the job in notepad or text edit.
> 
> Obviously, the iphone app is way too slow. It involves finding the day in a 
> grid, double tapping it, checking the available time slots by hand while you 
> hear nah teh ele twelve wah to thre foh five as you flick as quickly as you 
> can. Then when planning the appointment, you find your add button, find the 
> text entry field, type or dictate, check or set the exact date and time, 
> click add.
> For those of you in tight time circumstances: what do you use to maintain 
> your calendar? A dedicated mac app, or something very efficient on ios?
> Curious.
> Siri could be an option, but it is way too verbose and its speed is way too 
> slow in order for it to do the job in just a few seconds. If siri had the 
> speed of voiceover, that would help, but you may have better options.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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