[Reminders] Natural language for creating new reminders

stephan281094 commented 1 year ago

Extension

https://raycastapp.notion.site/Reminders-cd04642052864c5b82c4c5891e1ddbe2

Description

Raycast natively comes with the Reminders extension installed. This extension allows for creating a new reminder. Right now this is a form with a couple of fields, and it works great. It would be nice, however, to be able to use natural language for creating reminders, e.g. remind me to take the garbage out tomorrow at 9 am.

I realize this might be a rather complex feature to implement and it might be out of scope, so feel free to close. I think it would, however, improve people's productivity. And that's what Raycast is all about 😉.

Who will benefit from this feature?

Anyone using the Reminders extension regularly. Although, I imagine that having support for natural language processing could also benefit other extensions, such as the calendar app for creating or updating events. Perhaps this is something that should be part of the Raycast AI, where the difference is that you'd let AI perform actions.

Anything else?

There's a couple of things I can think about that could be supported:

Understand dates, such as tomorrow, the last day of March, next week, this weekend
Understand times, such as at noon, 7 pm, tonight, this afternoon
Understand repeated events, such as daily at 9 am, every week, Mondays until May 1st (this might actually be a new feature altogether)
Understand typos, such as tomororw, tday (nice to have)

raycastbot commented 1 year ago

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raycastbot commented 1 year ago

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LunarRed commented 1 year ago

I too would greatly value this.

stephan281094 commented 1 month ago

Found out today that this has been implemented using the "Quick Add Reminder" command, see https://youtu.be/g5PBtcrm7Aw?t=168.

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