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Autodetect date and tags in title (NLP)

Feature Request
Like in TickTick app, it would be nice if the user could type "Buy milk tomorrow #groceries @John" and the app would recognize the date, the tag and person.
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  • Purple Blueberry

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    Feb 1, 2025

    Since we're talking about tick tick I was just thinking about posting about how great it would be when typing out a new note/todo to be able to add ~home or ~work or what prefix symbol you choose (in the spirit of todo.txt may I recommend "+") to represent lists and have it be added to the respective list. NLP for dates would also be great.

  • Sapphire Geyser

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    Mar 24, 2025

    I don't want to sound annoying, but has this had any progress?

  • Bronze Fox

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    Mar 11, 2025

    Agreed, I coincidentally was thinking the same today.

  • Coral Deer

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    Jan 21, 2025

    Right now I'll create a new entry "16:00 Meeting with John", which visually has the same effect as choosing the time from the date picker but saves clicks and doesn't really have a downside unless I want a reminder.

  • Gray Tomato

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    Jan 24, 2025

    second about inline tag. for now i type #tag in the title directly just like the time trick Weary Dot did to save clicks (adding actual tag you need to scroll then add tag then select the actual tag whereas a # is just a character)

  • Beige Cascade

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    Dec 31, 2024

    I'd love to see these NLP task entry features - they are the only thing holding me back from a full swap from Todoist Premium! I'd add priorities to this too, similar to how Todoist does it. For example, by typing "Buy milk p1 tmrw" it would recognise and remove the last two words, applying a High priority and tomorrows date. The date is probably the hardest thing here to implement, as 'true' NLP would be needed, but I imagine you could do a quick and 'easy' V1.0 by using the 'p', '#' and '@' symbols as keys.

  • Sapphire Geyser

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    Nov 20, 2024

    Yes! We need it, maybe just time and date 😌

  • Aquamarine Butter

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    Feb 11, 2023

    Yes please please please. It's been a standard on most Todo apps for years now and honestly a deal breaker

  • Hamish Johnson

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    Feb 2, 2023

    Agreed! I didn't know you could tag people also in TickTick

  • Purple Blueberry

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    May 12

    **Fully Keyboard Driven Quick Add** This may be covered here https://bullet.canny.io/feedback/p/autodetect-date-and-tags-in-title-nlp but I wanted to make it clear that I'm looking less for NLP for dates, and more of a keyboard driven entry. At the moment it's easier in ways to enter something on Mobile because my thumbs are already near the buttons, but on desktop I have to take my hands off the keyboard to set List, Tags, Priority, etc. Would be nice to have keys bringing up: List (picker sorted by List order) Date (Day/Week/Month picker defaulting to current view, this is where some NLP could come into play e.g., next week, tomorrow, September) Tags (picker sorted by most used) Priority (picker for High, Medium, Low, None) Type (picker for Task, Note, Event) For reference TickTick uses: `~ List` `! Priority` `# Tag` `* Date` P.S. I came here from TickTick for the improvements over what that app was offering. Namely the bujo style views with calendar integration.