Quick Calendar Entry for Online Event
Now that there are a lot of online events bubbling up, I decided to make a shortcut to quickly add them to my phone's calendar. Just run this shortcut out of the "Share" menu when you see an event you'd like to attend and the shortcut will do the rest.
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Quick Calendar Entry for Online Event
How to use
How to use
When you see an event online, click on the Share Menu icon. This shortcut will appear at the bottom of the list.
If it's a Tweet, click the share menu icon and then click "Share tweet via" first to get to the list.
Then click "Online event cal entry".
The shortcut will ask what time the event is.
If you have any other appointments that day, it will display them so you can avoid setting up a conflict.
Then it will create the calendar entry with a 5 minute alarm before the start time. The calendar event will contain the original link so you can get back to it easily.
How it works
How it works
How to get started with Shortcuts
If you have iOS 13, you already have the Shortcuts app. That means that if you're on your iPhone or iPad right now, you can just click the Download button to download a shortcut. If you're not on your phone, you can email the link to yourself to download it later.
You can can start using most shortcuts right away, unless they work with another app that you need to have installed. That will be indicated on the in the post above. Once you have downloaded a shortcut, it belongs to you and you can make any changes you like. The shortcuts I make and publish here don't send any data back to me and I don't make any money from publishing them.
Once you have download a shortcut you can choose how to run it. These are your options:
- When you want to run a shortcut, open your Shortcuts app and all the shortcuts in your library will be there to choose from. Just tap on it.
- To save the step of navigating to your Shortcuts app you can add a shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen so it’s easily accessible.
- Some shortcuts will automatically show up in your phone’s Share menu under “Shortcuts”.
- In the shortcut’s settings you can “Add to Siri” by recording a phrase that will trigger it. Later you can say “Hey Siri” followed by that phrase and Siri will run that shortcut for you.
- You can also set up shortcuts to run automatically in the Automations tab in the Shortcuts app. You can select from a good variety of triggers such as "When my wake up alarm stops" or "When I arrive at work".