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Quick Add To Google Calendar With A Hotkey

By The How-To Geek on July 17, 2009 at 6:00 AM

Reader Alex writes in with his ubergeeky solution for quickly posting new events to your Google Calendar using an AutoHotkey script and a small command line utility.

To setup the same shortcut key for yourself, you’ll need to extract the script and utilities to a directory, add your Google Calendar account information to the logon.txt file, and then after launching the script you can use Win+G to show the dialog for adding an event to Google Calendar. He’s included a compiled version in the package, but the source code is included if you want to change the hotkey to something else.

Hit the link for the download and full write-up, including the source code for the utility. If you’d rather integrate your quick-add capability into Launchy, you can use the command-line executable to do so, or you can use the Google Calendar plugin.

AutoHotkey: Quick Add to Google Calendar [Just an Asterisk]

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  • ejf071189
    July 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM

    The launchy method linked above is my favorite method for this. I wish there were more twitter bots available for this kind of launchy trick.

    ejf071189

  • LastVigilante
    July 17, 2009 at 6:53 AM

    That is either a very early or a very late lunch you are going to have with somebody tomorrow.

  • turnersd
    July 17, 2009 at 6:46 AM

    Love AHK. Hate the idea of storing my google login info in a file on my computer. I'm sure there are probably other vulnerabilities that are worse, but I'm still a bit paranoid.

  • Gonzie
    July 17, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    exists already in ubiquity so good enough for me. also don't have windows

  • gobeavs
    July 17, 2009 at 10:26 PM

    this seems cool but i never found any specific instructions on how to do do it.. am I just stupid?

    gobeavs

  • madjack1987
    July 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    @LastVigilante: That was the first thing i noticed too lol

    madjack1987

  • nka
    July 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM

    I assume the hotkey will post to the Personal calendar by default? What if you want to add an event to custom calendars?

    nka

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