Provide a Calendar-based date picker for editing dates in Add/Edit modal

[paulmiddelkoop]

First of all: thanks for making this awesome plugin!

Sometimes I want to set a date on a task that is on a specific day of the week in the next month. For instance today it is 2022-09-15 and I want to do the task in 3 weeks on Friday. In order to set this date, I have to look on a calendar to find out which date it is. So I need to context switch for instance to the Obsedian Calendar plugin or my Google Calendar.

Some ideas to prevent a context switch:

1. Add date pickers to the create/edit task screen and make it possible to open the data picker when typing out a task line.
2. Support typing in 3 weeks on Friday and translate that to an actual date.

[claremacrae]

Hi, please could you check the summary and confirm that it represents what you're requesting.I've tried to make it more specific.

In the meantime, as a workaround, I'm pretty sure that there will be a way of typing 3 weeks on Friday in to the Add/edit date fields, though I cannot immediately tell you what it is.

[paulmiddelkoop]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply!

1. I think the summary is missing one thing. It would be great if the date picker is also available when you are not in the modal, but just typing a task with Auto-Suggest.
2. Support typing 3 weeks on Friday is not available according to the documentation. Maybe I should create a different discussion for that one since it's something completely different from the date picker?

[claremacrae]

Yes, requests for changes to auto-suggest would need to be separate requests please.

However, it does support many more options than the ones listed. It uses the chrono-node library to parse what you type.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/chrono-node

Searching through the tests for the library's source code suggests that this will work, both in the Add/edit dialog and in auto-suggest:
2 weeks after next Friday

[paulmiddelkoop]

Super, it indeed works!

[claremacrae]

Delighted to hear it!

[claremacrae]

Is this actually identical to #308?

[paulmiddelkoop]

Is it, so nevermind me and close this idea :)

[claremacrae]

Marking as a duplicate of #308.