"tomorrow morning"?

[markbrown00]

in kGtd i often used to type "tomorrow" into the start field to postpone something till the next day - it would show up the very next morning. Just realised, however, that in OmniFocus at the moment, "tomorrow" gives you 24 hours from the current time. This has tripped me up a bit, because items i postponed in the afternoon do not turn up until the next afternoon. But i need them in the morning.

How do others feel about how "tomorrow" or "next week" etc should be parsed? And is there any other way that i could quickly set a date for "tomorrow morning"?

[Craig]

And is there any other way that i could quickly set a date for "tomorrow morning"?

"tomorrow 7a" works.

[steve]

Craig,

Nice tip. It will be better when there is a column for due date. Using real language is a great help. I am thinking of setting up textexpander to make it even easier to add dates. For example, I can set up nnw to expand to next week or ttm to expand to tomorrow.

[Craig]

I noticed even without textexpander "tom 7a" works.

EDIT: never mind, it actually doesn't.

[steve]

Wow! That is even better. These Omni folks are sharp!

[markbrown00]

nice, i'll use that. thanks.

i still think a date should be midnight default unless a time i specified

[Craig]

Whoops, I take that back, looks like "tom 7a" returns today at 7:00am. I'm guessing it ignores "tom" as something it doesn't understand.

While I'm here, for the record I agree that midnight as a default makes more sense...

[fideli]

I also vote for "tomorrow", "next week", etc. to default to midnight.

[pjb]

and "+24h" could be the specific alternate that would put you into tomorrow at this same time.

[xmas]

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=3600

outlines some of the stuff you can do with dates.

I'd suggest typing "1d" for tomorrow, that's even shorter :)

[markbrown00]

cool..."1d" is good

1d @ 1a gets me my deferred till tomorrow morning i've discovered

[smew]

cool..."1d" is good

1d @ 1a gets me my deferred till tomorrow morning i've discovered
Ok, that's a good fix for the time being... but I still think that "tomorrow" should defer things to midnight or so the next day. I often process tasks in the afternoon or evening, and defer things for the next day... or for Sunday.. I really don't want to be clueless about those tasks until the next day at 6 PM or Sunday at 9 PM. Beginning of the day should be default, and then I can put in specific hours if I want to.

[markbrown00]

I agree smew. That is the more intuitive meaning of "tomorrow"

[smew]

I've actually created a Text Expander snippet - ttt - that expands to "tomorrow @ 1am" to be able to truly and easily "tomorrow" things :D. But I do hope this will not be the solution I'll have to stick with.

[markbrown00]

also noticed that if the current time is 2pm, and I type in, say "june 30", i get 30/06/2007 2:00 PM

so it looks like everything gets the current date added on

[michelle]

In the latest alpha, the time now defaults to midnight if you don't specifiy the time.

[markbrown00]

sweeeeeett! thanks michelle

[Ward]

In the latest alpha, the time now defaults to midnight if you don't specifiy the time.
Although I'm not yet blessed with an alpha, I anticipate "tomorrow" being a problem for those of us who are night owls. More often than not, I'm still at my Mac 'til at least 1:00 AM. So my "tomorrow" is based on when I sleep and awake.

Wish: Let each user customize the meaning of "tomorrow" (or default time-of-day) in OmniFocus Preferences.

[jtauber]

Although I'm not yet blessed with an alpha, I anticipate "tomorrow" being a problem for those of us who are night owls. More often than not, I'm still at my Mac 'til at least 1:00 AM. So my "tomorrow" is based on when I sleep and awake.

Same here and this has been a problem for me with other software I've used.

[Weasel]

I would like to specify the 'normal' start time of my the day for the same reason as the two previous posters, I'm often finishing up my day after midnight.

[smew]

I guess you can always say "today" in that case.

[markbrown00]

another thing, have you noticed that when you set a start or due date using the pop up calendar it defaults to 12pm, rather than 12am?