Personally, I love Mac OS X’s default Mail application, it’s pretty awesome. With built-in notes, RSS reader, to-do list, it strives to make everyday tasks easier. One such task which I’m really fond of is the use of it’s powerful data-detector technology. Mail recognises strings likes locations, street addresses, events and dates and allows you to perform a corresponding action.

Data Detectors in Mail

Take this event for this example: “tomorrow for lunch.” Mail knows that that is in an event and will automatically allow you to add that event to iCal with the subject as the event title, and it will also scan the email for a respective time and add that in too.

This video shows you how easy it is to make use of data detectors in Mail:

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