{"id":4272,"date":"2011-06-24T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2011-06-24T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:55:43","slug":"google-labs-suggestion-sending-gmail-creates-a-followup-calendar-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/google-labs-suggestion-sending-gmail-creates-a-followup-calendar-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Labs Suggestion: Sending gmail creates a followup calendar item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the following would be a good idea, write a +1 Reply to <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature\/browse_thread\/thread\/8a34b0d259fcecf8\">my post in Suggest a Google Labs Feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSubject:Sending email creates a followup calendar item<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I want to be reminded to followup on an email that I send. I propose that users be able to create Google Calendar items that are automatically populated with email contents.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing is that most of this functionality is already available using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ googlecalendar\/event_publisher_guide.html#individual\">Google Calendar Event Publisher!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here is proposed functionality: <\/p>\n<p>Next to the email &#8220;Send&#8221; button, there is a &#8220;Send and Calendar&#8221; button.<br \/>\nWhen the &#8220;Send and Calendar&#8221; button is pushed, first, the email is sent, then a Calendar item is created and displayed. <\/p>\n<p>* The original email Subject is made into the Calendar item Subject, with a prefix of &#8220;Followup: &#8221; added.<br \/>\n* The original email Body is made into the Body of the Calendar item.<br \/>\n* The date on the Calendar item is set to a changeable value, n days in the future.<br \/>\n* That&#8217;s it. All other Calendar defaults are left the same. <\/p>\n<p>It is then up to the author to either &#8220;Save&#8221; or &#8220;Discard&#8221; this new &#8220;Followup calendar&#8221; item. <\/p>\n<p>I would so love this feature. Please pretty please!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the following would be a good idea, write a +1 Reply to my post in Suggest a Google Labs Feature. Subject:Sending email creates a followup calendar item Sometimes I want to be reminded to followup on an email that I send. I propose that users be able to create Google Calendar items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}