Simplifying creating events and tasks from email

In this talk

• The way it works now
• The way it should work
• How to make it work
• Not an AI
• How you can contribute

Now: the email

Now: the event

• reading time 10th August at 10:15
• 

But it should be more like:

How?

• You define patterns to be recognized

  hour.only = at %1$S | around %1$S | %1$S -

  month.day = %1$S %2$S | %2$S %1$S | %2$S %1$Sst | %2$S %1$Snd | %2$S %1$Srd | %2$S %1$Sth

• information found will be used to initialize event dialog
• if needed, you can make corrections

Not an AI

• can be made to tolerate simple spelling mistakes, but definitely not all
• still can't know the context outside your emails
• "Let's meet on Monday before John leaves an hour before lunch."
• When does he leave? What time is lunch typically?

Contribute

• write a short email to merikes at gmail dot com
• receive a text file with en-US patterns
• translate them to your language
• get back customized addon to try out on real emails in your language
• provide feedback on what seemed to work / not work