Oh wow, you've found some good ones there. I've realised I only use parsing in a very limited, repetitive way - probably repeating what works best for me - so hadn't noticed there were all these inconsistencies.
On Saturday, 13 August 2022 at 06:38:04 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Searched a lot of threads and there are many specific cases of issues with > the rapid-task entry parsing. Is there a general focus-group or thread or > way these are being captured? > > Loving MLO, getting back into it after some years of using other > techniques. And love being able to Rapid Entry things. > > But, holy cow, I've never fought software this much on doing what I mean. > I have a whole notepad file up next to MLO to be a cheat sheet on how I > have to fastidiously entry the right flags, with or without spaces, with > the right date format, and have about 10 or more scenarios that do > something bizarre that I didn't expect. > > I'd love to help the dev team improve these or be a sounding board. If > there's a way I can help, please let me know, such as making some lists of > scenarios or etc. > > (Couple examples, just from today: > • space after -s vs. -d act differently > • "remind Saturday" and "rmd Saturday" set the reminder IN THE PAST (last > saturday) but "-r Saturday" set it for NEXT Saturday > • (biggest one) putting a simple m/d date (omitting the year) has very odd > interpretation- it takes the first digit as the YEAR, then assumes CURRENT > month, then the correct day. (Crazy.) > ) > > If that were fixed, and Emoji's supported without destroying data in > round-trip syncs, that would make MLO probably 2x more pleasant for me to > use. Love it anyway, but these make the fast/easy use nearly impossible > (for me). > > (Using 5.1.4) > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/71cecde5-d8dd-4b45-a52e-7c39f0c1e86an%40googlegroups.com.
