Time-Saver: Put Date and Time in the Title
I think the "computer-user world" is devided into 2 groups: mouse-lovers and keyboard-lovers. The one group likes to point and click and the other group likes to hack text in a text-field as fast as possible. I count myself more to the keyboard group when I am on my Macbook. But once I am on my iPhone I am more then click/tap guy and hate text entries.
So we designed Idonext to satisfy both groups and the date, time and tags input-fields can be overwritten just with some some magic characters during the title input. Here is a short overview of today’s shortcuts:
- #xyz means: add tag "xyz" to the task
- abc--xyz means: split the task into one called "abc" and another one called "xyz"
- +2 weeks means: set the date due in 2 weeks from today on
Especially the last one (the "+") is really mighty and understands a lot of format and even real human language. Please keep in mind that the plus does not necessarily mean "add" but is just a magic char. Here are just some examples which should give you an idea. Try it for yourself!
- +t = today
- +today
- +tomorrow
- +1 = tomorrow (a digit stands for days)
- +1 day = tomorrow
- +5 weeks
- +06/28/10
- +28.06.10
- +28.08.2010
- +06/28/10 10:00-11:40
- +06/28/10 1000-1140
- +2 1000-1140 = in 2 days at 10:00
You can also combine tag and date/time shortcuts, but the date/time shortcut should be always the last. Like in "Meeting Steve #meetings +2 weeks 9:00-11:00".
As you see, we take the efficiency business really serious! Save time wherever, whenever you can.
