How to mention days and times in task titles

[dan]

This has been driving me crazy. Maybe there is a known solution?

I find I very often want to mention a date or time in the title of a task, for instance:

“Plan and schedule depositions (all must be completed by 4/22)”

If I type this in a task title, Skedpal of course immediately deletes “by 4/22” and adds a due date of 4/22. But 4/22 is not the due date and I want to see “by 4/22” in the title.

Sometimes adding quotes around the date seems to work, other times it doesn’t. I’ve tried parentheses, back slashes, etc. Nothing seems to work. I end up with terrible looking workarounds like:

“Get assistant to proofread memorandum (promised to get to Rob M.o.n.d.a.y.)”

Is there a way to do this that I’m missing? And if not, is it possible to add one? I would be fine with an option to totally turn off the smart date feature and just stop parsing titles for dates altogether; I never use that feature.

[Seth]

There are two ways to disable the automatic processing of the dates in the task title:

• add an asterisks (*) at the end of the title, or
• totally disable the feature in the settings: Preferences/Default

[Mike]

Seth, is there a cheat-sheet for notations like asterisks (*) at the end of the title?

[Seth]

Mike, the only specific character that has a meaning here is asterisks. The rest are basically natural language processing. Examples are listed here:

https://www.skedpal.com/knowledge-base/adding-tasks-sub-tasks/

 

[dan]

Seth thanks!

[sheyyaakov]

I’m wondering if there is a way to parse start and end date, as well as due date.

For example:

Task start 9/1 end 9/9 due 9/9

I would like to simply enter 9/1-9/9 and let it parse start, end, and due date from that.

 

[Seth]

@sheyyaakov, in SP 2, you can’t specify them all in one line. In SP 3, this will be possible as the parsing will happen in-line. (as opposed to after saving the task)