apauley/hledger-flow

Smart date should include "last WEEKDAY" and "X days ago"

timo-a opened this issue · 2 comments

timo-a commented

I would use those a lot...

Edit:
I am a new user and enter all data with hledger add (on the terminal).
At times I don't ask for a receipt because I can just memorize the price or it's just one item that I buy often.
~4 days later I remember, hey didn't I buy X last week? I think it was Thursday...

What I currently do:
hledger add
open external calendar see which date "last Thursday" is and copy the date into the hledger add prompt.

I'd like to do:
hledger add
Date [2019/04/23]: last thursday

I just realized that tab fills in the current date, so being able to type in 4 days ago isn't that urgent, but since yesterday works I expect other phrases to work and with tab completion as for yesterday l[ast] tab th[ursday] tab and 4 d[ays] tab a[go] tab would feel more convenient to me.

apauley commented

Hi @timo-a, can you describe how you currently use hledger-flow, and where these options could be used?

Your commands together with the expected output will be useful to have.

apauley commented

Hi @timo-a, I only saw your edit now.

It looks as if you are referring to the hledger project,
and not hledger-flow which is this project.

I can definitely understand that their may be confusion around this.

I would suggest joining the hledger mailing list, or to use the hledger issue tracker.

http://list.hledger.org/