Auto-Detect Appointments in Emails

Peter Rukavina

While we’re on the topic of (delightful | creepy) computer-assisted lifestyle logistics, I’ve just taken advantage of a feature that I’m pretty sure has been part of the Mac Mail application for a long time, it’s ability to automatically parse out appointments from arbitrary text and allow me to add them to my calendar:

Screen shot of Mail.app

This was almost nothing but helpful.

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