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30 Boxes Delivers Email IntegrationApril 23rd, 2006 by Narendra |
After a busy weekend, we are putting out the first round of snazzy email to calendar functionality.
Isn’t it about time that your email app got along well with your calendar? Well thanks to 30boxes patently innovative One Box API, you can now start forwarding your email to create calendar events with HTML attachments.
Just booked a flight and now have all the details in your inbox. No problem, forward that email to add at 30boxes.com with a subject like “trip to ny april2″ and presto, you have an event on your calendar and all the details at your fingertips.
Get creative, it’s a whole new ballgame.
30 Boxes!
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Great stuff, and it’s quick too! Good work guys!
April 24th, 2006 at 1:32 am
sweet. and it is so fast! well done!
April 24th, 2006 at 5:39 am
This is great!
Sometimes though I just want to email something to 30boxes without attaching anything, so is the warning email really necessary?
April 24th, 2006 at 6:29 am
That feature is just OUTSTANDING! I totally agree with the security issue of forged emails but once again, THIS IS BETA, so let’s try it out and see what happens. This is such a cool feature!!!
I’m dying for two more features - flexible repeating events and the ability to set a reminder from the patent-pending OneBox!!! But, I have to say this email feature is top-notch!!!
Great job 30b development team!
April 24th, 2006 at 7:10 am
I think I’m missing something here. Where do I find the e-mail address that I send events to?
I’ve so been looking forward to this feature, and now I can’t figure out how to use it!
[Narendra: from a registered address - add at 30boxes.com]
April 24th, 2006 at 8:43 am
This is very useful! What would blow me away would be parsing an email containing a travel itinerary and adding the individual reservations (i.e. flight segments, hotel & car confirmations)!
Great job!
April 24th, 2006 at 9:16 am
I created an event using GMail and also opened up the additional event fields available in GMail and it appears that 30Boxes interpreted this as two events. Has anyone else tried this?
[Narendra: you have identified an odd bug. If you create an event on gmail at the same time using the event fields, it sends a second email to 30boxes as an invitation — we are going to disregard the second one]
April 24th, 2006 at 10:26 am
This is fantastic. Thank you.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
*This* is exactly what I have been looking for in a calendar for a long time. Thank you!
April 24th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Is there anyway to add an email attachment to an existing event? Coming soon? Other than the work around of deleting the current event and submitting the email to recreate it with the attached email. Thanks.
I would love to be able to PDF my own stuff and attach it to an event.
[Narendra: for now, we have no plans to let you update existing events. We also only accept the body (text or html) of the email and not email attachments (like images and pdfs). We really wanted to keep this simple :-) ]
April 24th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Great feature ! I had a question about the contents of the subject line. I have noticed that it’s not identical to the one box API in the following sense. if I type ‘event date time tag ‘ in the one box on the web page, everything is as it should, but if I send an email to add at 30boxes dot com with this subject line, the tag is not stored.
[Nick - I’ve re-tested, and tags do work from email. Make sure you put a space between your “tag” and your tag, e.g.: “test event tomorrow tag work”]
April 24th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Good stuff. Why are you making life easier?
Keep up the great work.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
This is just freakin fantastic. I’ve got my personal and two work email addresses sync’d up to my calendar now. I love the simplicity of it all.
Who knew staying organized could be so much fun???
April 24th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Hmm. I tried the subject that nick recommended, “test event tomorrow tag red’ and it worked fine. then i tried, ‘test event again tomorrow tag shared’ and the ’shared’ tag disappeared (when I tried editing the event, the tag did not show up).
they are still on my calendar (sureshv@gmail.com):
April 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
This is fantastic, thank you so much. The ‘killer feature’ I’ve been waiting for and it beats the Gmail ‘Add Event’ option!
April 24th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Very cool. Suggestion: if there is some way that you could have the subject of the return confirmation email match the original then they would be kept together as one conversation in gmail.
e.g. “lunch with david tomorrow at noon” could return an email with the subject “Re: lunch with david tomorrow at noon (new event)” or “Re: [New event] lunch with david tomorrow at noon” instead of the current “New event: lunch with david”
Cheers.
April 25th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Good point from Trent here - that would be neat
April 25th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Love the recent spate of usability enhancements… great work!
April 26th, 2006 at 5:43 am
This is fantastic. I also agree with Trent’s comment.
April 26th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Great idea Trent, that’s been implemented.
April 26th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
This is definitely cool… However, the way you’ve described the e-mail address in the original post is a little confusing. For those of you still trying to figure this out, the e-mail address name is “add”:
“add” at 30boxes.com
Great job!
April 26th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Hi,
Can this parse .ics attachments? I get “invite” email from clients and colleagues all the time with a .ics attachment. (Maybe Microsoft Exchange generates this?) It’d be a big deal if I could simply forward such emails to 30Boxes and have this show up on my calendar.
April 27th, 2006 at 4:41 am
I tried to register my cellphone’s email address, so I could update 30boxes on the road, but the reply message telling me my confirmation code was too long for sms and got cut off. Can you shorten the “reply” so I can see the code?
[Nick - I don’t think we can do that - we need the long code for security. Do you have web-based access to your phone’s messages, where it might not be cut off? If not, we’ll try to think of an alternative.]
April 27th, 2006 at 8:55 am
This is it, this is precisely what I’ve been waiting for. 30b is now my absolute runaway most-useful calendar app. I can add an event any time, from anywhere with my sidekick. Didn’t have to wait all that long, either. Fantastic job!
April 27th, 2006 at 11:05 am
What about evite? It would be really cool to send your evite info to 30boxes.
By the way, I love my 30boxes.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
This is definitely the best of all the 30 Boxes features :) Very useful and fast — you guys are doing a grreat job :)
April 30th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
It doesn’t understand PDF? :P
For a while I thought it could read my pdf flight ticket. ;)
May 1st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
So here’s an interesting question. although I can add entries via email, and the contents get attached, how do i add an attachment to an existing event ? here’s a real scenario
I have a hotel booking confirmation, and an airfare confirmation (I also have a car rental confirmation, but it’s just more of the same). I can create an event by forwarding the hotel email to the usual address with an appropriate subject line, but i have no way of adding the airfare confirmation info to the same event. I can’t forward a new email, and I have no way of adding an attachment to the notes field in the detailed entry display.
or can i ?
[Narendra: great usage case and we decided not to add the complexity of having you somehow put in the existing eventId to append additional stuff. We think that because it is so easy to forward something we would rather make that painless and encourage people to create a couple of additional entries on day than force them to think (or jump through hoops) to tidy it up.]
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
ok. that’s reasonable. Can I however add in an attachment to the notes field directly from the detailed event page ?
May 4th, 2006 at 3:08 am
I am unable to use this feature. I registered as myname@gmail.com and sent an email from this address to myname@30boxes.com with title “Essai may5″. It didn’t work! What should i try? Also an idea, could you document it in the help?
[Narendra: email is from your registered address to: add AT 30boxes.com
July 12th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Just a quick question, is there a way to add events via email with a non registered email account.
I have abc@gmail.com as the registered account, but I cant access my personal account from work but want to add events from work on 30boxes.com, is there a solution or a way to do that…
Thanks
July 12th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
you can add auxiliary email addresses for sending ‘add @ 30b’ requests. if you go to Settings/Account, you can add another address.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Hi
This is great, just moved onto 30boxes, aftar having reviewed spongcell and also airset, and even kiko.
Just one more feature request, can I use sms on this, the reason is I dont use the phone for email or web browsing, I dont believe thats what it is designed for, but for sms yes, this way I can use it to take and post notes to myself whilst on the road.
What it would require is a SMS number (not a short code since this is not global), I would send the message to this, you guys pick it up and process it. I guess there are some gateways in the US which do this, I know the UK is full of them
Iqbal
May 8th, 2007 at 4:58 am
30Boxes and a killer feature…
My favourite calendar app 30Boxes has just added a new feature. All of my assignments, meetings and meetups with friends arrive in my Gmail account, and now I can forward on all such messages to add[at]30boxes.com with the date/time/location etc in the…