Steph - We went into some detail about the text parsing subtleties/limitations in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mylifeorganized/-d$20rmd%7Csort:date/mylifeorganized/DlCY6XSzTRc/GKxGus9tBgAJ
Ray On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 2:33:28 PM UTC-4, Ray Emerson wrote: > > I remember a thread where this was discussed at length a few months back. > I'll see if I can find it when I'm back at the computer. Definitely recall > odd behaviors when using both start and due dates in the same task. > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> > > > > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:31 PM -0400, "Stéph" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Interesting - you're right. That exact text parses correctly. >> >> Where it starts to struggle is if I have both start and due dates, then add >> a reminder. The problem is if you use phrases, because it often stops >> parsing before reading the whole phrase. For a start, the -s and -d switches >> shouldn't have spaces after them: >> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind Wednesday" works >> "Call Jim -s Tuesday -d Thursday" doesn't work - both the start and due date >> get set to Thursday. >> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind Wednesday" works >> "Call Jim -sTuesday -dThursday remind 1 hour in advance" diesn't work - it >> sets the reminder to 1 hour from now. >> >> This deserves more research and experimentation but, in the meantime, thank >> goodness for ctrl-Z to undo! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/9ZfibSEmcBw/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/a17225a3-75ab-4f7c-95fa-edc08645c144%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- 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/e7205d6a-5ec6-4a40-aa75-86a1bf0f9594%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
