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CalShot
Reviewable calendar drafts from screenshots, selected text, and email.
Download- System
- macOS 14+
- Input
- Image, text, .eml
- OCR
- Apple Vision
- Output
- Apple Calendar, .ics
About
CalShot turns event text into an editable calendar draft.
CalShot is a native macOS menu-bar app for getting events out of images, selected text, and Outlook email drops. It was built around the unglamorous academic calendar problem: seminar notices, defense schedules, committee meetings, and forwarded invites that still need a human review before anything reaches Apple Calendar.
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Inputs
Screenshots, image files, clipboard images, selected text, and dropped
.emlfiles. - Extracts Title, date, time, location, notes, and useful meeting links when they are present.
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Saves
Writes to Apple Calendar when permission is available, with
.icsexport as a fallback. - Boundary No cloud OCR, no LLM calls, no telemetry, and no silent event creation.
Screen
Input, review, then save.
The main workflow is deliberately narrow: bring in event text, inspect the parsed draft, fix anything wrong, then create the event.
How
Review before save.
- Open CalShot from the menu bar.
- Drop an image or Outlook email, paste a screenshot, or send selected text through the app workflow.
- Check the parsed title, date, time, location, link, notes, and calendar destination.
- Create the event in Apple Calendar, or export an
.icsfile if calendar permission is unavailable.
Support
Support is limited to the local parse-and-save path.
CalShot is early direct-distribution software. Useful reports are concrete: what input was used, what the review window showed, and what happened when saving.
- Include macOS version, CalShot version, input type, and whether Calendar permission was granted.
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Check
Whether the source text actually contains a date/time, whether the review fields are editable, and whether
.icsexport works. - Private Sanitize event titles, locations, attendee names, and meeting links before sharing examples.