[Mailmagik] Dealing with task dates

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I’m using Kanboard for all my software- and other projects, but I’m using Todoist for my day-to-day tasks. Inspired by the way Todoist can handle dates, I had the idea of adding some similar extensions to date input.

You can now write something like

s:“tomorrow” d:“next Friday”

in the subject line or

&@date_started=“tomorrow”@&
&@date_due=“next Friday”@&

in the mail body. As a side effect of this extension, you can now include the time in your date definitions. So

&@date_due=“next Friday 17:00”@&

results in the same as

&@date_due=“2024-08-09 17:00”@&

Some more examples:

  • 10 days
  • 2 weeks + 5 days

Some remarks:

  • Please note that subject-attributes containing blanks must be quoted, in the mail body they are quoted anyway.
  • This extension uses the PHP function strtotime(). As a consequence, the textual date definitions must be in English, and they are not translatable.
  • Currently, this extension works for both, definitions within the subject or the mail body, but not or not yet for custom fields of type date. See my followup post below.

This extension is not yet published. Should it be added to the next version of Mailmagik? Or what do you think about it? Any feedback is highly appreciated.

abu

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Include support for MetaMagik date fields

Meanwhile, I’ve extended my work to MetaMagik date fields. It works like a charm, but there are some differenced to standard Kanboard date fields. MetaMagik cannot handle times, if you add any, it will be removed.

$@Testing_date=“next Sunday”@$