[MlMt] Resend-Help with a script to create an event from an email

[Rob McClure]

The approach taken by Apple Mail is when a date is identified, the event 
is created with the name of the event = to the email subject, and the 
url slot in an event is populated with a url to the mail file. I think 
it also takes the first sentence or something like that from the email 
and puts it into the notes section (could be wrong on that). Apple mail 
does some nice parsing of the date info, looking for time too and if no 
time is found, makes it an "all day" event.

To start, it can take the selected email and allow a user to specify a 
standard parsing of text -> date/time [12/6/14, 10:15 becomes December 
6, 2014 at 10:15 am for the default time of 30 min or so?]. If the user 
selects text, that can be assumed to be fed into a date/time parser? Is 
there some sort of standard syntax from text to event? Launchbar uses 
this 
http://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/index.php?chapter=WorkingWithCalendars

On 6 Dec 2013, at 2:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 6 Dec 2013, at 9:01, Torsten Grust wrote:
>
>> I too use BusyCal and would love to create calendar entries from with 
>> MailMate.
>> However, as fas as I can tell (I do hope somebody proves me wrong), 
>> BusyCal
>> does not have an AppleScript dictionary, effectively rendering it 
>> non-scriptable.
>> That's a siginifcant obstacle to a tight integration with MailMate 
>> (with any
>> other application, for that matter).
>
> Busycal has an alternative to using AppleScript based on a custom URL 
> scheme (similar to what is often done on iOS and what MailMate does 
> for the `mailto:` URL scheme): 
> https://support.busymac.com/blog/23829-busycal-url-handler
>
> This can actually be a good thing since it's probably faster than 
> using AppleScript when launching a command from within MailMate.
>
> Now, I'm not sure exactly how you want this to work, but it's 
> certainly possible to create a command which based on the currently 
> selected message (or selected text in the message) can create an event 
> in BusyCal/iCal/Fantastical (3 more bundles to be created). The main 
> problem, of course, is to convert text to event data. I could perhaps 
> implement a feature where MailMate can be told to analyze the message 
> (or selected text) with the data detectors in Mac OS X (10.7+) before 
> calling the external script. This could help find dates, addresses, 
> and phone numbers I believe. (Making no promises, just thinking out 
> loud.)
>
> -- 
> Benny
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