Sunday, August 04, 2013

Using Automator to create a plaintext list of upcoming events from OS X Calendar.app

This isn't the Using AppleScript to create a plaintext list of upcoming events from OS X Calendar.app solution I want (much less something built into Calendar.app), and it's not necessarily better than How to get a reasonable plaintext listing of calendar events using Google Calendar or OS X Calendar.app, but this Automator solution was pretty easy to put together.

It's not so easy to share though, one of the weird things about Automator is how hard it is to share a set of steps. Here's a screenshot that gives the gist of it:

Screen Shot 2013 08 04 at 5 02 05 PM

The output is clunky, but I've seen worse:

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EVENT 16 OF 18
Summary: bdfafdf
Status: none
Date: 8/24/13 to 8/25/13
Time: 12:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 AM
Location:
Notes:

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