DRUMSHANBO  This is one of my must have apps. It is truly a time saver and, astoundingly, free. Big thanks to the developer for creating such a useful app and being so generous as to offer it to us at no cost. Check it out, and if you like it, make a donation.   
(Version 1.4)

KRIONI  @JIMW:

Note that this can also create iCal events (not just Todos), by typing in free-form information like "at 3:00 pm tomorrow" (or whatever), rather than clicking on 10 little boxes to change the day, hours and minutes.

That makes it much faster.  
(Version 1.3)

JIMW  While I have not used this, or downloaded it, I fail to see how this can be a timesaver. In order to open a widget, you have to first open the Dashboard and wait for it to load. Then you can click on the Widget. Since Both iCal and Mail give access to To Do's I can't see how it is easier. Besides I much prefer the enhanced menu clock software where a single click on the menu bar gives an immediate view of events and ToDo's on my desktop and allows me to work while changing them or viewing them.

This is not to imply that this is a bad product or not well designed. It is just that I feel any Widget for ToDo;s is more trouble than they are worth.   
(Version 1.3)

PINKSKITTLES  after dealing with google calendar's way of inputting things quickly, nothing really compares. this is pretty good but it doesn't seem to understand "at, in, etc." to register location. still haven't figured out how to get the location to work.

i'll probably use it because it's easy unless the location thing gets too tedious. i really hope the developer does something about how the app handles location. i'd like to see something more similar to google calendar in that respect.  
(Version 1.2.1)

KOSOVAR1  Sorry to criticize, especially since this is a free utility. It could be something imminently useful, except that its complete lack of military time support makes it unusable for me, an American living in Germany. The same is probably true for Europeans and the great majority of people in the world who live outside the USA and whose Macs are set to military time format. It simply doesn't work unless you sacrifice military time.  
(Version 1.0)

FOTO555  Quite brilliant!

Suggest viewing demo movie on developer's site.  
(Version 0.90)

JIM BOUTCHER  I know the look and feel sucks - care to whip up a mockup with all the needed design elements?  
(Version 0.70)

NICK.V  Needs a new coat of paint because it looks like a clown at the prom (that is Mac OS 10.5).

It would be ideal for it to match the calendar style of the 10.5 calendar widget as the iCal Events widget does (see

http://www.benkazez.com/icalevents.php )  
(Version 0.70)

MR MIDNIGHT  This has the potential to be an indispensable program!

I've been looking for a software which utilises Mac OS X's data detectors to get events into iCal apart from Mail. I don't use Mail, and even then, Mail only parses incoming emails - not drafts, no other texts.

Using the iCal input panel itself is tedious - if you have an invitation in a text format, you essentially have to input every number by hand. It would be so much easier to just copy and paste invitations, events etc. from your favourite email program or browser into a text box and let the computer parse what is a date, time, venue etc. and put it in iCal.

This widget still has a long way to go, but it already seems to work quite well. A few humble suggestions:

- GUI is pretty ugly, and needs to be changable - I mean, pink??

- Error messages need to be a dedicated window, not simply written all over the application :-P

- The input box needs to be bigger, so you can see several lines.

- Locations are not recognized.

- How about a separate application as a menubar icon or a HUD style window? I'm not a big fan of Dashboard.

Anyway, I'll be using this!  
(Version 0.60)