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Smart event add

Typing a natural-language event in KashCal
KashCal reads what you type.

Type an event the way you'd say it out loud, and KashCal sorts out the rest. As you type, it shows a live preview of what it understood (the title, date, time, and more), so you can watch it get things right before you save.

Turning it on​

This is off until you turn it on. Open Settings, find Smart event add under Event preferences, and switch it on. From then on, the + button opens the typing box instead of the full form in the Month, Month (Full), Agenda, and Year views. In the Day, 3 Days, and Week timelines, + still opens the form, because those views place the event on the grid at a specific time.

Each time the box opens it shows a different example as its placeholder ("Coffee tomorrow at 3pm", "Standup every weekday at 9am"), which is the fastest way to get a feel for what it understands.

Here's how KashCal breaks down what you type:

What you can type​

KashCal understands many kinds of phrases, and you can combine them freely in one sentence.

Dates​

  • Relative: today, tomorrow, yesterday, day after tomorrow
  • Weekdays: Monday, next Friday, this Wednesday, last Tuesday
  • Specific dates: March 15, 15 January, 15 of March 2027
  • Numeric dates: 3/15/2027, 2027-01-15

Times​

  • Exact: 3pm, 3:30 PM, 15:30, at 10 15
  • Time ranges: 2pm to 4pm
  • Casual: morning, afternoon, evening, night, tonight
  • Spoken style: quarter past 10, half past 3, quarter to 5

Duration​

  • for 30 minutes, for 2 hours, for 1.5 hours

"In" and "ago" offsets​

  • in 2 hours, in 3 days, in 1 week
  • 2 hours ago, 3 days ago

Recurrence​

  • daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, yearly
  • every day, every 2 weeks, every 3 months
  • every Monday, every weekday, every weekend
  • Ordinal weekday of the month: every 2nd Tuesday, first Monday of every month, or last Friday of the month (handy for a meeting that lands on the last weekday, whether that's the 4th or 5th)
  • Last day of the month: last day of the month, last day of every month
  • End conditions like until December or 5 times

Saying something is on the 2nd Tuesday of this month (rather than every month) creates a single event on that date, not a repeat.

Location​

  • Anything after at becomes the location: Lunch at Olive Garden, Meeting at Conference Room B

Tags​

  • Put # in front of a word to add it as a tag: Lunch with Sam #social, Deep work #focus. You can add several, and KashCal keeps the rest of the phrase as the event. See Tags.

Notes​

  • Everything after a space and // becomes the event's note: Call plumber tomorrow 3pm // ask about the leak under the sink. KashCal only reads the part before the // for the date, time, and location, so words in the note never move your event. The space before // means pasted links like https://… are left alone.

Examples​

You typeKashCal creates
Coffee with Kash tomorrow 3pm"Coffee with Kash", tomorrow at 3:00 PM
Standup every weekday at 9am"Standup", repeating every weekday at 9:00 AM
Lunch with Sam Friday 12:30 for 1 hour"Lunch with Sam", this Friday 12:30-1:30 PM
Book club every Tuesday until December"Book club", weekly on Tuesday, ending in December
Dentist in 2 weeks at 10am"Dentist", two weeks out at 10:00 AM
Deep work 2pm #focus"Deep work", today at 2:00 PM, tagged #focus
Team sync last Thursday of the month"Team sync", the last Thursday of each month
Rent last day of every month"Rent", on the last day of every month
Call Sam 4pm // ask about the invoice"Call Sam", today at 4:00 PM, with a note

The live preview​

While you type, KashCal shows what it parsed:

  • the title (with an emoji if it recognizes one),
  • the date (shown as Today / Tomorrow or a full date),
  • the time range, or "All day" if you didn't give a time,
  • the location, and
  • the recurrence, if any.

If something looks off, keep editing and the preview updates instantly. When you're happy, save it. Need more control? Tap More options to open the full event form with everything you've typed already filled in.

The box starts as a single line and grows to three as you type, then scrolls, so a long note after // never pushes the preview off screen. Entries are capped at 500 characters, and a counter appears once you're near the limit rather than only at it.