The workflow starts with the information the user already has, without asking them to re-enter it in Calendar.
Screen · speech · text → source context
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Keep the moment.
Three ways in.
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Native tools.
Small ideas.
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Small shortcuts.
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A collection of Apple Shortcuts that turns on-screen details, conversations, and one-line plans into calendar events.
THREE SHORTCUTS, ONE LESS INTERRUPTION
Screen to calendar
Conversation to calendar
Batch scheduling
Productivity Shortcuts3 workflows
Screen to CalendarSelected details → event
Conversation to CalendarSpoken plan → event
Batch SchedulerOne list → many events
01 / The idea
Keep the moment.
Skip the admin.
Adding a calendar event is a small task that arrives at exactly the wrong time. It interrupts the email, page, conversation, or plan that contains the information in the first place.
Productivity Shortcuts is a collection of three focused workflows. Each one captures the context already in front of you, extracts the useful event details, and hands them to Calendar.
02 / The shortcut library
Three ways in.
One organised calendar.
The collection meets event details where they already are: on screen, in conversation, or in a list.
Select it. Schedule it.
Turn selected on-screen information—from an email or web page—into a calendar event.
The shortcut filters away surrounding copy and keeps the useful date, time, title, and location details for the event.
Selected content → useful details → Calendar event
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03 / How it works
Capture first.
Confirm before saving.
Each shortcut follows the same small, understandable path from raw context to a calendar entry.
04 / The build
Native tools.
Thoughtfully connected.
- Automation
- Apple Shortcuts
The native workflow layer that connects each step.
- Understanding
- Gemini
Extracts useful event details from natural language and surrounding content.
- Destination
- Apple Calendar
Receives the resulting event or batch of events.
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