10.5: View iCal events with Quick Look and Cover Flow

Nov 01, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: JayJay1974

I discovered that if you do a Spotlight search for a particular file and you end up having an iCal event in the search results (in the Finder window), you can use Quick Look to see a little day calendar page icon with that date on it, and some details of that iCal event.

The same is true if you do a File » Get Info (Command-I) on that item. The difference here is that in the Preview area of the Get Info window, the event details will be show directly on the Calendar icon. Further to this, if you view your Spotlight search results in Cover Flow view, you get a nice big representation of that calendar page.

The cool thing about this is that if I've got my work shifts set up in iCal, and I wish to see when I'm working a night shift, I type "night shift" into Spotlight and view the results in Cover Flow view. By selecting File Name instead of Contents (to exclude extraneous items), I have a nice scrolling calendar view of my upcoming night shifts.

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