A Shortcut for Creating New iCal Events
Posted on August 3rd, 2006
I like using Apple iCal. But I don't like the way that I tend to press Command-K (the shortcut for creating a new ToDo Item) when I mean to press Command-N (the shortcut for creating a new event). I also don't like how iCal jumps to the date of the newly created event as you type it in, throwing off whatever calendar view you happened to be looking at before.
It turns out that Automator can provide an easy solution. Using one of the built-in Actions for iCal, "New iCal Events," you can create a workflow script that displays what I'm going to call a new event quickform.
Better yet, by saving the workflow as an application and placing it
in your Scripts folder (username/Library/Scripts), you
can call on the quickform from anywhere without having to switch over
to iCal.
The only problem I've run into with this so far is that if you hit the cancel button on the quickform, you'll get an error message. It seems harmless though.