⚡️ Ideas
Adam J. Richman Adam J. Richman Apr 30, 2023

Search for created (and not yet created) future or past Calendar Dates with natural language from the Search Bar and CMD+K

Explain the problem as you see it

There's no way to get myself to a future or past date node easily with search. I can't search using natural language and have it find the dates, even if they exist. I have to know the day and the date together. I can't simply search for "Mon" and find all the Mondays, or "May 8" to find the May 8th node. In Workflowy, by comparison, I can use the jump menu to go to either — I can find all future Mondays, or I can find May 8 regardless of knowing whether it's a Monday or Tuesday or whatever.

2023-04-28 at 16.28.55 - Tana - Tana -  2023-04-28 - Friday [Curïo]@2x.png
2023-04-29 at 10.55.10 - Workflowy - Workflowy - Thu Apr 27 2023 - WorkFlowy [Curïo]@2x.png
2023-04-29 at 10.55.25 - Workflowy - Workflowy - Thu Apr 27 2023 - WorkFlowy [Curïo]@2x.png

Why is this a problem for you?

Being able to move around the calendar without friction is an essential part of using an outliner for me. It's something I do fluidly in Workflowy all day, and it seems impossible to do without 10x'ing the steps in Tana. ##

Suggest a solution

The @ menu allows for finding dates in great ways. I can search as expected. This, unfortunately, just generates a node that I have to click or arrow+enter into and then leaves a trail of unneeded node references that I have to go back and delete. Simply moving the same search criteria to the search menu and the CMD+K menu would be ideal.

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Further, the fact that some commands that "take me places" exist in CMD+K and some in Search is disorienting. For example, I can open calendar dates for upcoming (highly specific only — not natural language dates) dates within the next week through CMD+K but not through Search.

And even finding specific terms in the command from CMD+K can be disorienting. For example, jumping to the next Monday (called Upcoming Monday)... it can't be found with Monday alone.

2023-04-30 at 10.30.43 - Tana - Tana - Tomorrow Mon May 1 [Curïo]@2x.png

2023-04-30 at 10.31.10 - Tana - Tana - Tomorrow Mon May 1 [Curïo]@2x.png

Instead you need to use more terms, like "cal Mon" to find it... which is again disorienting because expectaiton is that "Mon" alone would work.

2023-04-30 at 10.32.18 - Tana - Tana - Tomorrow Mon May 1 [Curïo]@2x.png