smartInput.md

Examples how to use the smart input

Using the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+J to opens the following dialog.

From there you can either start typing away (see below for options) or select one of the following options:

• Today selects or creates the journal entry of the today
• Tomorrow selects or creates the journal entry of the tomorrow
• Select entry opens a list of existing journal entries
• Select/Create a note opens a list of existing notes for selection. You are still able to create a new note by simply typing the note title.

This guide including its examples assume english as your display language. If you changed the setting Display Language in Visual Studio Code, you probably see other messages. Supported languages for this extension are:

• English (en)
• German (de)
• French (fr)
• Spanish (es)
• Italian (it)
• Portuguese (pt)
• Dutch (nl)
• Russian (ru)
• Chinese (Pinyin) (zh)
• Japanese (Romaji) (ja)
• Arabic (ar)

Supported input options

The help text in the dialog will tell you, what action will be performed after analyzing the input.

The following actions are possible:

• Pick a specific journal entry by entering a shortcut, offset, weekday or specific date
• Open a week's entry (last, this, and next, or a numbered calendar week)
• Add a memo to today's page or to a page of a specific date
• Add a task to today's page or to a page of a specific date

Pick journal entry by shortcut

Supported shortcuts are

• today, tod for today's journal entry
• tomorrow, tom for tomorrow's journal entry
• yesterday, yes for yesterday's journal entry

Each entry will also create the entry if it doesn't exist yet.

Pick journal entry by offset

• 0 to select today's entry. Or simply press enter.
• -1 to select yesterday's entry
• +1 to select tomorrows entry
• -2423 to select a day far in the past

Pick journal entry by day of week

Supported values are monday, mon, tuesday, tue, wednesday, wed, thursday, thu, friday, fri, saturday, sat, sunday, sun

You can use the modifiers last and next to go either into the past or future. The last is the default, if you simply enter mon, the journal page for next monday will be opened.

• next wednesday for journal entry of next wednesday
• last wednesday for journal entry of next wednesday

Pick weekly entry

Supported values are week w13

You can use the modifiers last and next to go either into the past or future. The last is the default, if you simply enter w or week, the weekly page for the current week is opened

• next week for weekly entry of next calendar week
• last week for weekly entry of last calendar week
• w1 for weekly entry of the first week of this year
• w99 works as well (well, why not)

Pick journal entry by date

You can jump to a specific date using the following options

• 25: By only enterying a number, the journal entry for the day of the current month is selected
• 10-25 selects Oct 25 of the current year
• 2015-25-10 for Oct 25 in 2015

The syntax follows the ISO Standard YYYY-MM--DD

Add a memo to today's page

This is an important thing to remember

Just enter any text. If no modifiers (a date modifier for picking a journal entry) or the flag "task" are included, the new text will added as memo to the journal entry of the current day.

Add a memo to any journal entry

+1 I have to remember this

Enter any of the modifiers (offset, date or weekday) before entering any text. The new memo will then be added to the journal page of the selected date.

Add a task to today's page

todo Order christmas presents

If you add flags like todo or task before any text, it will be added as task to page of the journal entry of the current day.

Other examples

• task fri Submit proposal if you have a deadline this friday
• task 10-30 Buy myself a present for my birthday .. since why not
• task next wed Remember the milk .. because the one in the fridge is spoiled by then