Comment by AnonHP | Hacker News Reader

Comment by AnonHP | Hacker News Reader

This looks handy, but then I saw this:

> Read-only, a feature not a bug

> Grila can't and won't modify, add or delete events in your calendars and reminder lists. You can go fast and reckless with your typing, there's nothing to break.

I hope this changes in a future release (perhaps with an additional keyboard shortcut), since managing calendars and viewing calendars using multiple apps doesn’t seem seamless. Over a period of time, users may just go back to the app that allows the creation of calendar events.

I agree, I found I need it as well from time to time.

I'm thinking to add it as a global keyboard shortcut that would show the main UI + a typing bar where you can type a simple syntax for creating the event. As you type the date, the calendar will also switch to that date behind the typing bar so you can have an overview of other events before adding the new one.

I'm not sure about the syntax yet. Maybe:

    any text here is name of event =day-month-year :hour:minute #calendar-name @invitee1 !map-location

...anything after =day would be optional so for the simplest case one could schedule a dentist appointment on the next 14th day at 10am

    Dentist appointment =14 :10am

And each token should probably have autocomplete to avoid ambiguity.

Agreed. Maybe have an intentional edit mode?

>perhaps with an additional keyboard shortcut

Came to looking for this. Too bad.

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