roam-unofficial/roam-toolkit

Why does putting once a day between semi-colons replace it with a bi-link to the current day?

MaskyS opened this issue · 3 comments

inputting ;once a day; replaces it with [[October 21st, 2020]]. Why?

Same thing happens no matter what else is in between. i.e. ; oh, once a day; also gets replaced

It's called fuzzy date; it is helpful to allow you to quickly get a date in the correct form. Like ;today; ;one week;, etc.

If you don't like it you can disable it in the Roam Toolkit menu; scroll down and uncheck "Fuzzy Date." You can also choose which character is used as the "guard" symbol (currently ;).

Fuzzy date's great, but I don't understand why it's triggered even when there isn't an exact match, i.e. ;hello this is text but it doesn't matter once a day;.

Stvad commented

It operates on best effort basis :) It tries to interpret whatever you put between guard symbols as date