Date parsing in MLO 5 could be improved.

[Joel]

This is something I've known for some time but figured I'd post here. I opened up the Rapid Task Entry dialogue box to enter a task like this:

Ask Sharon if you are taking her car to the shop on Wednesday today 7pm remind

This was supposed to read:

"Ask Sharon if you are taking her car to the shop on Wednesday"  which was to be dated for today at 7pm with a reminder for the same time. What I end up with though is this:

"Ask Sharon if you are taking her car to the shop"  dated for Wednesday 7pm with a reminder.

Ideally, the date parsing should ignore Wednesday when it see's 'today' or a second date follow it. I use Todoist alongside MLO and Todoist excels at date parsing. 

Wish MLO could be more powerful in this area. I'm always having to enter the task manually when it comes to tasks like these.

Joel

[Stéph]

Hello Joel. You can use speech marks to avoid keywords like "Wednesday" from being parsed. So, in your case, you could write the following and it would be parsed correctly:

"Ask Sharon if you are taking her car to the shop on Wednesday" today 7pm remind

Once you get a bit of practice at using the "", it becomes second nature.

Stéphane

[Joel]

I wasn't aware of that. Okay, will do. Thanks Steph. I appreciate it. :)

Joel