Items often have multiple dates you can assign to them, e.g. Due Date, First Payment Due, Milestone, Start Date, Defer Until, etc. Yet, how do you search for them?
Suggestion: Allow a {Type} field after the ‘!’, where the presence of an alphabetic character means that the date follows after the space.
For Example (using ISO date format, just to illustrate):
!start 180601 !due 180630 !milestone 180615 !report 180702 !presentation 180709
Can’t you tag them seperately and use the date search operators?
#due within:1w would give you everything due within the next week
That’s exactly perfect! I got back on here to request that, only I was going to call it ‘Variable Tags’ for use as parameter fields, like they do in programming. Then the tags can have any searchable value you want, including dates. – P.S. Thanks again for a great product!
Regarding ISO 8601 date formats, 180630 is no longer ISO. It was removed in 2004. 20180630 is ISO. Many other date formats are also recognized, including 2018-06-30 (preferred), but you can never omit the century in an ISO date.
Your suggestion sounds interesting but I wasn’t able to follow it. How do you use the date search operators with tags? Let’s say I have an item that is due in a week, say on June 15 2021. How would I tag it? And then how do I search for it?