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name: Calendar Event Creator description: Create Obsidian calendar events with correct YAML frontmatter. Prevents calendar display issues.

Calendar Event Creator

Generate properly formatted calendar events for Obsidian Full Calendar plugin.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke when:

• Creating a calendar event in Schedule/
• User asks to add something to the calendar
• Fixing a malformed calendar event

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File Location & Naming

Folder: Schedule/ Filename: YYYY-MM-DD - Event Title.md

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YAML Frontmatter Templates

All-Day Event

Copy---
title: Event Title
allDay: true
date: 2025-12-17
completed: null
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Timed Event (CRITICAL FORMAT)

Copy---
title: Meeting Title
allDay: false
date: 2025-12-17
startTime: "14:00"
endTime: "15:30"
completed: null
---

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Critical Rules

A single malformed time breaks the ENTIRE calendar display.

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Quick Examples

Morning meeting:

Copy---
title: Engineering Standup
allDay: false
date: 2025-12-17
startTime: "08:00"
endTime: "08:30"
completed: null
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Deadline/reminder (all-day):

Copy---
title: DMR Report Due
allDay: true
date: 2025-12-20
completed: null
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Multi-hour workshop:

Copy---
title: BEV Safety Training
allDay: false
date: 2025-12-18
startTime: "09:00"
endTime: "12:00"
completed: null
---

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Timezone

All times in SAST (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2).

Weekdays only for work events. Move weekend deadlines to preceding Friday.

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Calendar Sync

Events auto-sync to Outlook via SessionStart hook. Manual sync: /sync-outlook-calendar

See: reference/claude-code/2025-10-21 – Calendar Automation System.md