Natural language for entering task due dates, priority, tags and project | Voters

Natural language for entering task due dates, priority, tags and project

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Pascal Zweipfenning

One of the great features of Todoist is the possibility of entering tasks using natural language including labels, due dates and the project. All can be added without a single click. This and the mobile app is one of the reasons I switched back to Todoist (hopefully for a short period).

Pascal.

February 26, 2018

Gerry Wallace

Has anyone used Todoist? It handles this well.

For a company focused on task management, project management, and work execution, this should be a priority. It’s core to ClickUp’s mission and aligns with their values, especially 1, 3, 7, and 10.

Marco Hanke

Zeb i think you missundertood something.

Luci N.

Hey, Marco Hanke! Jumping in for Zeb! Can you share more details about what you're looking for with this feature request?

Théo Marechal

Luci N. I think he's saying that it's not a proper "natural language" but rather a slash command.
Natural language : "tomorrow at 5am #emails !important answer to emails"
Slash commands (used by Clickup) : /due to ... popup opens
type date in natural language
 and then /m move to popup opens
type list
 /priority popup opens
 select a priority
It's actually not the same experience at all and bring much more friction which doubles or triple the input time compared to Todoist or Ticktick.

Silvio Di Stefano

Also, AFAIK it does not work on mobile.

Silvio Di Stefano

This is certainly not complete!

Ron Barry

Is that like remember the milk? intuitive text

https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/intuitive-typing-of-tasks-like-remember-the-milk-uses

Tom

Geethanadh Padavala

I don't think this is complete, it just gives a quick short cut, todoist does a lot that we can do everything on a single line, that is the only reason i can't switch out of it to anything else :(

Mary M Cavanaugh

I don't understand how the clickup team can consider these requests to add natural language task creation as "complete!"  The "slash entry" method is a step up from having to click on each entry item, but it is still very time-consuming and confusing.  
This is one of the 4 areas where ToDoIst WAY outperforms clickup, and for that reason I am keeping my subscription to Todoist active while I try converting to clickup.
(fwiw, the other 3 places where Todoist way outperforms clickup are (2) Views (completely customizable, multi-level sorting/filtering, etc); (3) Simplicity & space-efficiency of how task lists & details are displayed (clickup is so freaking complicated, with checklists & subtasks & comments & descriptions.... at least let the user choose what s/he wants to see!); and (4) ease & usability of tags.

Frank Arnold

Todoist is the best example how it should work.. write: "buy bread 12.4 14:00" and it will create the task with time and reminder. Add something like "every day/month/year" and you set a recurring task.

The idea with the command trigger "/" is not bad but it's not the same as people expect from a native language parser.

Stéphane

Frank Arnold: yes, Todoist is the master of this game :)

Stéphane

Slash command is not exactly a "natural language" even if it can definitely speed up the process of creating task :)
However, do you plan, for example, to support something like :
"Read an article starting in 2 days every 3 days for 1 months p2 !my_list #label1"
Which would create a task :
"Read an article" with due date in 2 days, that repeat every 3 days until 1 month with a priority normal, with label "label1" and set in the list "my_list" ?

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