You can abbreviate a lot of the parsing commands to make them quicker to type e.g. "Test water tomorrow 3p remind 10m" works. The "in advance" is superfluous - not much demand for reminders after the event ;-)
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 02:59:33 UTC, george wrote: > > Thanks for bringing this up. Thought only worked in Rapid entry box. It > works in Outline mode/view and it is awesome > > Here is what i did: > > Hit insert key> type "test water on 3/31/16 > then hit ALT+ENTER (instead > of ENTER or TAB). Due date of 3/31/16 is displayed in the Due date column. > > "Test water tomorrow 3pm remind 10 min in advance">ALT+ENTER adds Due Date > *tomorrow > 3:00 PM* with reminder filled out for *1/13/16 2:50 PM* > > > > > On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 3:04:41 AM UTC-8, TotheMoonAlice wrote: >> >> The MLO help files says task parsing can be done in the Outliner as well: >> >> *Parsing task caption in the Outliner* >>> >> >> >> You can benefit from input parsing in the Task Outliner as well. To parse >>> the task caption entered in the Outliner, press Alt+Enter while you are >>> in in-place editor mode. The task caption will be parsed according to the >>> rules described above. >>> >>> >>> >>> Tip: If MLO fails to parse your input press Ctrl+Z several times to >>> return to the initial caption of the task. >>> >> >> I find this confusing. The Outliner is simply "outline view" right? So, >> you can use text parsing? I've tried Alt+Enter to enter a new task or to >> edit an existing task and it never seems to work. Was this feature >> eliminated? >> >> Amber Pollard >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/dbb93d79-5fca-4ab6-9a6b-f1893a74ac78%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
