How To Create An Online Calendar?

How do I create a Google Calendar event from a Gmail message?

• So I'm trying to go from a really well integrated Outlook Email/Tasks/calendar integration to gmail because of the universal access.  I can see how to create a task from an email but can't see how to create a calendar event with either the text in the event details or a link to the original message. I don't want to have to create blank events and copy and paste.  This is especially annoying when getting a flight itinerary emailed and having to manually type in the data to make a matching calendar event.  The help section describes some feature that specifically does that for itineraries...but I can't find it. Am I missing something obvious that's going to make me feel silly for asking this or is it something that gmail just doesn't do yet?

• Answer:

  As says, Gmail will try to do it automatically for you, if it can recognise the event details inside the email. Doing it manually, the best you get is the title of the event being the same as the email, and quite a lot of the email body in the description of the event. Do note, however, that you will perhaps not get all of the email, depending on it's size. Sadly, this is some built-in copy/paste limitation, since the description field itself can contain mountains of data. Then again, the addon linked to by is extremely powerful and will let you do the things you want, and then some! While you're there, be sure to check out the other addons by the same creator. Alternatively, you can use the official addon from Google. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-calendar-by-google/gmbgaklkmjakoegficnlkhebmhkjfich