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Tip 289
Make Calendar Appointment Times Shorter
The Calendar app has a clever feature whereby you can create new calendar
events by typing a sentence describing them. Just click the plus icon at the
top left of the window and start typing. For example, typing LUNCHWITHPARENTSAT
12PMWEDS will create an appointment on Wednesday starting at 12 p.m. called
“Lunch with parents.”
However, unless you add how long the event will last, Calendar will always
create hourlong appointments. If you're using Calendar to schedule appoint-
ments for a business, it might be more convenient if Calendar defaulted to
thirty- or even fifteen-minute appointments.
Shortening Default Appointment Times
A secret setting can be tweaked to make this happen. Quit Calendar, open a
Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the
list of applications double-click Terminal within the UTILITIES folder), and type
the following, which will shorten the default time to thirty minutes:
DEFAULTS WRITE COM.APPLE.ICAL "DEFAULT DURATION IN MINUTES FOR NEW EVENT"
-INT 30
Change the number at the end to the number of minutes you want events to
last for. For example, the following will shorten the time to fifteen minutes:
DEFAULTS WRITE COM.APPLE.ICAL "DEFAULT DURATION IN MINUTES FOR NEW EVENT"
-INT 15
Reverting to Default Appointment Times
To revert to an hour, open a Terminal window, and type the following:
DEFAULTS DELETE COM.APPLE.ICAL "DEFAULT DURATION IN MINUTES FOR NEW EVENT"
 
 
 
 
 
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