the quick add should understand the duedate in natural language

[Lionel Dricot]

The quick add should understand expression like :

"before next monday"
"for 12/1"

So you can type

"Clean room before tuesday" and a task "clean room" is automatically added with a due date on tuesday.

We should not reinvent the wheel here and investigate which libraries already exist to make this kind of things.

[Pititjo (jonathan-barnoud)]

I join a patch witch allow to use the same syntax to set due date and defer date than to set tags.

With this patch users can set due and defer date by typing due:date and defer:date with date witch is yyy-mm-dd or yyymmdd or mmdd or today or a weekday name. If I type due:monday (case insensitive) the due date will be set at next Monday.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug was fixed when your branch was merged, am I right ?

[Pititjo (jonathan-barnoud)]

Le mercredi 01 avril 2009 à 17:52 +0000, Lionel Dricot a écrit :
> This bug was fixed when your branch was merged, am I right ?
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Milestone: None => 0.1.1
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Lionel Dricot (ploum)
>

I think so.
But your proposition was about natural language, it isn't ?

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

indeed, it was natural language.

[Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini (pablox)]

I think this would be a great thing to implement!

[Ctbeiser (ctbeiser)]

I'd love to have not natural language in the whole field, but just after the word due, to prevent false postives. So, I could type due thurs, or due three days or due two sundays, or due the 22nd, etc. I had natural date parsing while using The Hit List for OSX, (Which has an amazing UI that anyone working on the UI should take a look at.) and it makes entering dates much, much quicker, and less error prone.