I’ve recently started using Everdo, and just today found out you can use inline commands to speed up task processing. I’m particularly excited about this, as I have previously used Todoist, and the natural language processing there is excellent for quickly capturing and organising tasks. So having something equivalent for Everdo is excellent!
I’ve noticed this doesn’t yet work on Android though and wondered if/when this may be added? It would be incredibly useful especially with the global quick add option too.
My assumption always was that on mobile the same style of commands wouldn’t work so well because of all the typing of symbols like : and the command format not compatible with voice input.
To take the mobile apps to the next level in terms of quick editing, I think leaning more into natural language is the key. But I haven’t thought too deeply about how to execute it (yet). Takes some research. There’s a roadmap item for this.
The product vision for mobile apps is reducing the friction of capturing and organizing tasks. Features like natural language input fit this description well, so they will be added eventually.
Thanks for the reply!
Yes I agree typing out a colon or similar on mobile is definitely a step more than with a physical keyboard. Although I would say still probably more convenient than not having any method, and particularly with things like GBoard where you can long hold a letter to type a symbol, it’s not as much effort as navigating the full page of symbols.
However, I would also agree that natural language is probably the better route. I’ve seen with some other software, there are libraries available that allow implementation with this reasonably simply (due to the libraries providing the NLP logic already e.g. Kotlin NLP), although I’m not sure what language everdo is in and whether there would be an appropriate library.
I’m glad to hear that this is something that will be on the roadmap for implementation eventually! I’ll be looking forward to that.
I’d definitely love the inline commands. I have often thought about how convenient they would be to have on Android, as well. Colon is only a long press on most Android keyboards and I often use special characters. I would definitely appreciate that feature.
