A travel booking from email to the calendar
jen729w starts Claude in a Johnny.Decimal folder and asks it to take a new travel email into the calendar. The folder name includes tripsy.
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What was done
On 04 October 2026 jen729w writes that the trick is a folder. He uses Johnny.Decimal. When he wants to run the script that takes a travel booking from email to the calendar, he runs jd tripsy. The command finds the folder whose name includes tripsy and changes into it. Then he starts claude. He says there is a new email in the inbox. The description stops there.
How it went
He calls the steps done once Claude is started and asked about the email. No specific trip or calendar entry is shown.
Worth knowing
The comment names no trip, date or field written into the calendar. It does not say the agent sends email.
How to do it
- Go to the folder where the travel booking belongs.
- Start Claude there and ask it to read the new travel email.
- Read the calendar draft and add it yourself if it is right.
Try it with Claude Code
In the folder [folder], read the new email about [trip]. Write the calendar draft here. Do not write to the calendar and do not send email until I say yes.
Replace text in brackets with your own.
Done when. The draft has been read, and the calendar is unchanged unless you added the entry.
Safety rule. The agent does not write to the calendar and does not send email. You do that yourself after reading.
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