[bentcorner]

Ugh, I understand that it can be useful for some people, but I find natural language parsing of calendar events intrusive and annoying.

99% of the time it ends up parsing a field incorrectly, and if I wanted to set a field it's on the form anyway, so why bother? In this case, why parse out an email address and send them an invite when there's an "invite" text box on the same page?

If the only way to set the time, date and invite list was to have the subject line get parsed, it would be obvious that this sort of thing will occur.

Honestly, to me this is a solution in search of a problem.

[djim]

but you can create an event from the calendar interface prior to going into the event interface. from the calendar interface, it only gives you the option of creating a title. so i can put meet with [e-mail] and create the event. that's it.

Google Calendar should TOTALLY notify you you are adding someone to the event and ask if you want to send an invite. Also, if you are in the events interface and add someone's email to the title, it should add that person to the guest list on the fly. It should do these things, but it doesn't. I think that is the root of the complaint, not the feature itself.