The Quick-create feature has arrived!!
Suppose you don’t like filling in forms. Especially when you have lots of tasks you want to create, it’s rather tedious to create them all one-by-one.
So now, inspired by Google Calendar’s ingenious Quick Add feature, i bring you Quick-create!
You go to the Quick-create page, type in all the tasks you want, and as if by magic, they all get created at once! Okay, there’s a catch. You have to type them in a particular format:
Task - recurrence - due date
Actually, recurrence and due date are both optional. If you want a one-off task to occur today, just type it and you’re done! But for more particular requirements, here’s what you can do:
Laundry - every week (creates a weekly task that’s due today)
Shopping - every 3 days - tomorrow (creates a task that occurs every 3 days, due tomorrow)
Visit Grandma - every 6 months - 2007/04/14 (creates a task that’s due in April)
You’ll notice you have to use the international date format YYYY/MM/DD. That’s to avoid complications with parsing the date.
The simplicity of Quick-create requires a few trade-offs:
- No assigning to a person,
- No rotating assignment,
- No description,
- If your task name over-runs 30 characters it’ll be truncated.
Of course you can always edit the tasks later to change these things.
There’s also a Quick-create for lists, but that’s not nearly so thrilling …!
Why not try it out next time you want to create a task! I’ve tested it quite thoroughly, but i’m sure other people will attempt things which i’ve not thought of. If anything doesn’t work the way you thought it would, please let me know. I guess this feature will improve over time as people give me their feedback.