Smart date add for tasks

Comments: 4

• 27 Sep, '20
  Bill Admin

  I think there's a bit too much room for undesirable behavior if we simply write a regex for "on [date]", but it is on our long-term list to implement the ability to set a due date for any task inline, probably through syntax like !due:friday. If you'd like to create a voting item for that, it could accelerate its implementation with popular support.

• 17 Oct, '21
  Skyler Reeves

  I wonder if it causes much of an issue for users of apps that use NLP to do this like Todoist, Akiflow, etc. I was initially surprised that Amplenote didn't have this feature and came here to check on its status. I understand why you aren't implementing it though and appreciate you marking it as "Not Planned" so I can disqualify myself as a good fit for the product.

• 18 Oct, '21
  Lucian Admin

  Hey Skyler! While editing a task in Amplenote, you can type "!start", which opens a menu that lets you set a start date for you task. In this menu, you can use NLP to set the start date with a lot of flexibility.
  
  Check out the page on Task Commands for more info: https://www.amplenote.com/help/task_commands_menu
  And check out the page on date calculation for examples of words that are recognized by the date/time picker: https://www.amplenote.com/help/keyboard_shortcuts_and_markdown_syntax_examples#Date_and_time_calculation_Under-documented
  
  Let me know if you have any other questions.

• 19 May, '22
  JL

  Just a thought, but I really love how Notion uses the @ syntax for everything, you can do a "@today" or "@last friday" (it opens a context menu where you can select the right input for that syntax) and it creates a relative reference to the date it was typed which shows it as a relative day until X amount of days have passed after which it converts to a date. Amplenote could use their own syntax with the exclamation point (e.g. !today and maybe trigger it with something like /\s![\w}\d]+/).
  
  I would really love this feature in other parts of the notes too and not just in the tasks