I did mention quickCal was also confusing me:( Neither cope with long diary entries. I'll keep trying...
Sent from my iPad On 9 Mar 2012, at 11:29, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm afraid it's a case of keep playing to get familiar. I've done a search in > vain before too! > > Top tip is that it relies on US English I think, so I seem to get better > results when I say Meet Jed for coffee on March 22nd as opposed to 22 March. > > It's limited, and I can't get it to update location, or reminders, or > repeats. It's really just a quick add for a simple thing. > > I suggest downloading Quick Cal (App Store) which really makes for a natural > experience and are both brilliant. A hot key calls up a window and you can > enter things REALLY naturally and it updates your preferred iCal calendar eg > meet Jed for a coffee 10am next Friday at Starbucks.... voila! You can even > enter Reminders from it too! > > Good luck > > On Thursday, March 8, 2012 4:01:58 PM UTC, Jason Davies wrote: > I've got Lion with iCal and Quickcal. I've just wasted half an hour > discovering that 'natural' entry is anything but if it's not 'movie at > 7pm tonight' > Does anyone have a crib sheet for ideal syntax? What I keep finding is > that when an event is more than one word (eg the name of an academic > paper, which is *never* one word, barely one sentence usually) and the > location is complex (eg 'room G22/26 senate house', it doesn't stand a > chance. googling just gets me lots of 'wow this does natural diary > entry' without any specifics and FAQs just send me round in a circle or > inform me that if I register at yet another forum... > > cribsheet anyone? template for adding these things? > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/smug/-/L_O1jFYRN4IJ. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
