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Add to gCal - Intelligently parse text and instantly add event to calendar

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Lets you highlight an event and determines the date, time, and location, allowing you to add the parsed event to any of your Google Calendars. I've personally found it useful for emails that don't include an "Add to calendar" button.

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Hey everyone! Excited to be sharing this on Product Hunt. Add to gCal is a small Chrome extension that basically lets you highlight and parse text to instantly extract from it an event name, date, time, and location. You can then send the event to any of your Google Calendars with the click of a button. Algorithm for parsing took about a day and setting up oAuth, the interface, and the Lambda server took about another day.
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Description from the Chrome Web Store listing: The Add to gCal extension lets you highlight an event, for example "call with the team tomorrow at 3pm on Zoom" and with the click of a button, allows you to add the parsed event to any of your Google Calendars. It'll recognize that the event name is "call with the team," the time is 7/3/2020 (the next day) at 3pm, and the location is Zoom. I've personally found it useful for emails that don't include an "Add to calendar" button. I made the extension because the alternatives that I've tried on the web store are non-functional or don't handle location well. In order to use the extension, right-click on the extension icon (the blue calendar) after downloading, click "Options," connect your Google Calendar, and finally grant permissions. Please note that Add to gCal will only ever add an event that you deliberately specify to a calendar that you deliberately specify. Furthermore, the extension does not store any personally identifying information, event information, or account information in any database. (For developers) The serverless API (AWS Lambda) that this extension communicates with has no database attached to it in the first place which ensures that no information is stored. No logging of event information takes place on the server either.
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