[chandler-users] Why isn't there a "date picker" pop-up on alarm setting

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi William and Bak,

> It's being too clever.  I have many, many times typed something into the
> quickbar like "investigate upgrading app X to 3.1" and it marks it with
> a custom alarm for 1 March 2009.  Personally I would love it if I could
> make sure the "guess what date I mean" functionality would only look at
> the first word of a given new taskbar item...

Agreed, the date-parsing has far too many false-positives, and it often 
misses things I want parsed.

Do you have any suggestions about your favorite ways this could be 
improved?  Possibilities off the top of my head, harder to do lower down:

- Provide a preference to turn off the parsing feature
- Don't automatically add dates/alarms, but add a button to the detail 
view "look for dates"
- Parse-as-you-type, show a box beside quick-entry that tells you the 
date parsing thinks you want, with a checkbox to "ignore dates"

Orthogonal to this, if you notice a date issue (either dates not being 
parsed that should be, inaccurate parsing, or false postives), please 
add your example to this list here:

http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/DateTimeParsingBugs

Having examples of what fails is really helpful.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey