Google Calendar, the time management web application, is pretty good at simplifying your task of scheduling events. Along with scheduling, it also acts as a reminder to your scheduled events through email notifications or by sending message to your mobile. But, at the cost of taking up the tedious task of filling forms for creating events. To avoid such a fuss, Google Calendar provides the “Quick Add” feature. This feature allows you to enter the most basic event details, and interprets how to schedule the appointment. It enables you to create one-time as well as recurring appointments.

Note: All examples to be used without quotes.

Creating One-Time Appointments
Simply follow the format of specifying the activity/task and time, i.e ‘what’ and ‘when’ of an event and Google Calendar will take care of the rest. Examples: “Baseball Match tomorrow 6pm” or “Bank holiday 8/14″ or “Board Meeting next Monday at 13:00″.

Creating Recurring Appointments
For creating a recurring event you need to specify three time expressions — start, repetition and end. Here are a few examples for scheduling an event daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

• Daily- “Going to Office daily at 10 am” or “Watch TV 8pm to 9pm everyday”
• Weekly- “Staff Meeting every Monday at 2pm” or “Tennis practice Tuesday 7pm to 9pm weekly”
• Monthly- “Office Party on the last Saturday of every month” or “Family Dinner on 9/1 every month”
• Yearly- “Mom’s birthday June 19 yearly” or “Wedding anniversary July 3 yearly”
• For certain number of weeks/months- “Basketball practice every Thursday 6am to 8am for 6 months” or “Dance practice every Sunday 5pm to 7pm for 3 weeks”

Bonus Tip: Also, you can add Firefox add-on “Google Calendar Quick Add” to your Firefox browser so as to provide a shortcut to add calendar entries quickly without opening Google Calendar.

Now schedule your events on the fly.

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