Type a task in one line

When you type a task’s title, Heym spots dates, times, durations, priorities, labels, a home and reminders in it. Each one turns into a highlighted part of the title and becomes a detail of the task, so “Call the movers Friday 3pm-4pm p2” is a one-hour call on Friday at 3:00 PM with medium priority. This works wherever you type a task’s title: the New task window (press C), New task at the end of a list, and when you rename a task.

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How it works

1. Type the title and the details in any order.
2. Watch for the highlight: each part Heym picks up gets a light orange background. A highlighted part becomes a detail of the task and is left out of the saved title. The example above saves as “Call the movers”.
3. After #, +, ! or @, a list opens. Pick an entry with the arrow keys and Enter, or click it.
4. Press Enter or click Create to save the task.

To check or change a detail afterwards, open the task. Everything Heym picked up is there, under Date, Priority, Labels, Alignment and Reminders.

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Cheat sheet

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Dates and times

Write times with am or pm, or as 24-hour time. at 3 alone means 3:00 in the morning. noon only counts next to a day, such as today noon or noon tomorrow; on its own it stays plain text. Typed next week is 7 days from today. The Next week button in the date picker picks the first day of next week instead (see Tasks).

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Duration

A duration can go anywhere in the title, also next to a time: 9am 1h starts at 9:00 AM and lasts an hour. Durations go up to 24 hours; a longer one such as 72h isn’t picked up.

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Priority

If you type more than one, the last one counts and the others stay in the title.

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Labels, home, reminders and people

A reminder that counts back from the start needs a start time, so add one with the date (tomorrow 3pm !30m). How reminders reach you, and what you can type after !, is on Reminders.

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Keep a word as plain text

Sometimes a word that’s part of the title gets picked up, such as “Tomorrow” in “Read Tomorrow and Tomorrow”.

• Keep the word, drop the detail: put the cursor right after the highlighted part and press Backspace once. The highlight goes away, the word stays in the title, and Heym leaves it alone from then on.
• Drop both: click the highlighted part. The word and its detail are removed together.

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Words Heym leaves alone

To avoid false matches in ordinary titles, Heym doesn’t read these as dates:

• Short day names on their own: mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun. Write the full day, such as friday, or add a time: fri 3pm works.
• may and march on their own, even after “in”. With a day they count: may 5, march 3.
• Other month names on their own, such as “archive the april docs”. After “in” they count: in april sets April 1.
• Plain numbers, such as “Buy a 2024 calendar”.
• Words like “week” or “day” in a sentence, such as “Plan the week”.

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Typing in German

With Language set to Deutsch in Settings → Preferences, Heym reads German dates and times too: morgen, nächsten Freitag, morgen 15 Uhr. English ones such as tomorrow still work. Durations work in either language, whichever you’ve chosen: 2 Std, 30 Minuten, 2h. In German, a short word followed by a number can read as a weekday and time: “Do 20 pushups” becomes Thursday at 20:00. Press Backspace right after the highlight to keep the words as text.

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