The Bot fwd2cal Adds Events to Your Calendar Automaticpartner. Just Forward It an Email

It’s someleang we all do multiple times a week: We manupartner comprise leangs to our calendar while duplicateing details over from an email. What if a bot could do that toil for you?

That’s the idea behind Fwd2cal, a currently free project by Moe Adham that can parse any email with an nominatement in it and automaticpartner comprise it to your calendar. If you get an email with a potential calendar nominatement in it—a party invitation, a greeting, a cotoiler casupartner alludeing you can join them for drinks after toil today—you can forward it to the free bot. The service includes ChatGPT to parse the email and discover the relevant bits of directation, then turn that directation into a calendar nominatement, then comprise that calendar nominatement to your Google Calendar.

“I wrote it becainclude I was repartner frustrated managing many contrastent email compriseresses on contrastent platcreates into a one calendar,” Adham writes on the project’s website. “It also seemed appreciate a task that machine lobtaining could maybe do reliably.”

I’ve been testing this for a couple weeks, and so far I consent: This is someleang machine lobtaining can do reliably. The service couldn’t be easier to include, and the setup process isn’t too difficult. All you necessitate to do is send an email to calendar@fwd2cal.com. You’ll get a message back, with a join, asking you to apverify your Google Calendar. You can comprise more email compriseresses by sending another email to the service—equitable put “comprise” adhereed by your second email compriseress in the subject line and you’re done.

After joining Fwd2cal to your Google Calendar, you can commence using the service. You can forward any email alludeing an event happening—the bot will parse the email, turn it into a calendar nominatement, then comprise it to your Google Calendar. If someleang goes wrong, you’ll get an email elucidateing that. If not, the service will quietly defend compriseing nominatements to your calendar. You can even integrate teachions in the email, if you want, using the same phrasing you would include to talk to any AI chatbot. I’ve set up the bot is pretty excellent at figuring out what you want.

This all demands putting a lot of suppose in Adham, which he acunderstandledges on the website. The excellent news is that the project is allotd with an uncover source license, unkinding the code is useable online if you want to check it. The privacy policy also creates it clear that the only directation the bot collects is what’s vital to provide the service and that no personal directation is stored lengthy term or included to train the AI model. The service runs on a combination of tools from Google Cboisterous, OpenAI, and SendGrid.

Fwd2cal is free, though that might alter. “If this ever gets too famous and it costs too much to run, I’ll maybe commence charging for it,” Adham writes on the website. In the unkindtime, it’s a service that recommends some fantastic convenience.