Smart Date Recognition is the easiest and fastest way of adding date and time for your tasks. Just type your desired time in the task’s name and it will be automatically recognized and assigned to the task.
- Clean my room today
- Submit final report on Sunday at 10pm
- Tennis practice at 19:00 with Alex
- Congratulate Megan on June 17th
- Take evening medicine
Recognized patterns
Finale To Do can detect most natural text patterns, including days, weekdays, months, time of day, time (both 12 and 24 hour formats), and more. Below is an example list of a few most popular supported formats.
What you type | How Finale To Do recognizes it |
yesterday | Yesterday |
today | Today |
tomorrow | Tomorrow |
tomorrow at 11:35 | Tomorrow at 11:35am |
monday | Monday |
january | January 1st |
jan | January 1st |
january 15 | January 15th |
january 15 at 9 | January 15th at 9am |
january 15 at 9pm | January 15th at 9pm |
jan 15 at 17 | January 15th at 5pm |
morning | 9am |
noon | 12pm |
afternoon | 2pm |
evening | 6pm |
night | 10pm |
midnight | 12am |
Clean task name
By default Finale To Do keeps your task names intact. However, if you would like to automatically remove time information, like on Sunday at 10pm, from the tasks name, enable Clean Task Name in ⚙️Settings → Tasks → Smart Recognition.