“Convert Task to Calendar Event” via Right-Click
Cesco
Hi NotePlan team,
First of all, thank you for building such a thoughtful and powerful app — I really appreciate how NotePlan blends tasks, notes, and calendar in one place.
That said, there’s a small but very impactful feature I believe would improve the workflow dramatically:
🔹 Feature Request: “Convert to Event” from a scheduled Task
Use case:
I often write tasks like this in my daily notes:
```markdown
- Prepare report for meeting 17:00–18:30
```
NotePlan nicely parses the time range and shows the task in the calendar view. However, it’s still only a task — not a true calendar event — and I can’t rely on calendar notifications or share it externally.
🙏 What I’d love:
When I right-click on a task that includes a time (like 17:00–18:30), I’d love to see a menu option like:
“Convert to Calendar Event”
That action would:
• Create a true calendar event with that title and time
• Replace (or supplement) the task in the note with the event “pill”
• Add it to the calendar (and sync to macOS/Google Calendar if connected)
This would save a lot of friction when planning time-blocks or when turning tasks into actionable appointments.
Thank you so much for considering this!
All the best,
Francesco
Eduard Metzger
Thanks for sharing this! You can already sync the timeblocks to the calendar, did you see it in the timeline settings? I think that's even better than converting a task into an event?
Joe Wolin
Eduard Metzger, I think you don't always want ALL timeblocks synced. Just some. So the requested feature would be nice for converting specific blocks.
Alessio Maria Braccini
Eduard Metzger, I would say the opposite could be interesting. Imagine I have a calendar event set by someonelse. I see the event on my side bar in NotePlan. If I want, I can create a new note for the event, but I would like just one entry into my daily time block. If I add manually NotePlan will create a new event in the calendar, which I do not want.
Eduard Metzger
Joe Wolin Right now there is no way to differentiate which one is synced to the calendar and which one not. We would need to make this more complicated to support this. But what you can do is to drag a task into the calendar and hit "Add event" instead of timeblock. That creates an individual event.
Eduard Metzger
Alessio Maria Braccini Thanks for sharing this! What would be the difference between a timeblock and an event? A timeblock is also creating a visual "block" in the timeline, just like what the event is doing. So the output would be the same? If you want the event be inside the editor, you can drag it on Mac from the timeline into the editor.
Alessio Maria Braccini
Eduard Metzger, let me make an example of my routine, hope to clarify. I work with a template for a daily note and the daily not is automaticaly created as soon as I click on a given day. Then, on the daily note, I start to add appointments and have this automatically created in the calendar. Sometimes I happen to have in the calendar an event not created by me and a daily note with already some appointments added by me. I would like to add on the daily note the text (with the checkbox) linked to the calendar event not added by me. If I right click on the calendar entry I am able only to create a new note (whic his not what I want). If I drag and drop the calendar event on the note I get an icon of a calendar with the text, which is fine but there is no checkbox and no time. It would be nice if right clicking on the calendar event I get in the active note (or in the clipboard to paste then) an entry composed by: a round checkbox, the title of the calendar event, the timeblock.
Hope to have helped and not raised further confusion :-).