Made an extension Create Calendar Entry (using Keyboard Maestro)

PopClip Extensions
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I made a snippet extension to create an entry in Apple’s Calendar app:

# popclip
name:  Create Calendar Entry
icon:  iconify:vaadin:calendar
url:  kmtrigger://macro=EC3EXD3B-4XX3-4XX6-9XX9-9588XX06FBC5&value=***

It use Keyboard Maestro to open the “Quick Event” input box and pastes the selected text in there. The macro looks like this:

Create Calendar Entry (from Popclip)_sanitised
Create Calendar Entry (from Popclip)_sanitised1840×2122 199 KB

Create Calendar Entry (from Popclip)_sanitized.zip (1.2 KB)

You need to adjust the macro UUID[1] in the Popclip snippet according the UUID in your URL trigger.

This extension is pretty minimal as it just takes the selection and leaves all smarts to the target app. - And Apple’s Calendar is by far not as smart as 3rd party contenders I think.

In any case, hope this helps and have fun!

  1. The UUID here I have santised and is not valid. - I’m not sure whether that was needed, but better safe than sorry… ↩︎

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Pretty new Keyboard Maestro user - any chance of help on getting this to work?

Thanks!

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Hi @Northwinds, the image shows the KM macro. You either recreate it from the image or you import the KM macro from the attached zip. Choose you own clipboard for storage (in “Set Named Clipboard…” and “Paste Named Clipboard…”

Then you need to find the UUID of that macro. I don’t know out anymore out of the top of my head how to do this. Should be in the KM doco. The uuid you put in the Popclip snippet.

Hope this help.