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Add to Reminders
Find a time in the selected Chinese text (明天下午 3 点, 周五, 10 月 8 日, 半小时后…) and add it to Reminders or Calendar.
How to use it
Select something, hold the right mouse button, swipe. The animation plays the steps one after another; click a step to see it again.
- Select the text
- Hold the right mouse buttonAbout a quarter of a second. A short click still opens the usual menu.
- Swipe to “Add to Reminders” and let goIt sits on the ring where you put it, and it’s always in All Actions.
- It finds the time and the task
- Change anything you likeThe to-do, the date or the time.
- Add it to RemindersOr to Calendar: without a time, it’s an all-day event.
What it does
Select a sentence with a time in it, such as “明天下午 3 点和设计组过一遍截图” (go over the screenshots with the design team tomorrow at 3 pm), and Pop picks out the time and the task. It knows Chinese phrases for today, tomorrow, weekdays and next week, dates, “in 3 days”, “in half an hour”, morning, afternoon and evening, half past and a quarter past.
English sentences such as “tomorrow at 3pm” are read by the system’s date detection.
Change the to-do, date and time if you like, then add it to Reminders, where a time gets an alert, or to Calendar, where a day without a time becomes an all-day event. The original sentence goes into the notes.
The first time, macOS asks for permission. Calendar only needs write access: Pop doesn’t read your events.
Install it
Plugins aren’t part of the Pop download. Install this one when you need it.
1From Settings
In Pop’s Settings › Actions, find “Add to Reminders” under Plugins at the top and click Install. It downloads from Pop’s GitHub release in a few seconds and works right away, without a restart.
2Or from the ring
Open All Actions on the ring and search for “Add to Reminders”. Plugins that aren’t installed are listed after your actions: click it to install, and it runs right away if it can handle what you selected.
3Then use it your way
Put it on the ring in Settings › Ring, give it a shortcut, or run it from Shortcuts and scripts with its link:
pop://run?plugin=reminderUninstall it from the same list when you no longer need it: the plugin and its settings are deleted. After Pop updates, installed plugins are updated with it, and with iCloud sync on, what you install syncs to your other Macs.
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