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RE: @remind-me
Hey!
In the very beginning the entire comment text was allowed to be parsed in order to search for a target date.
What I was concern about was that a random text might be picked by a search algorithm instead of user-intended one.
It's important, as even ordinary words matter, like "today", so a comment starting with "How are you today?" might fool an algorithm.
That might be tricky, so eventually decided to use one-line rule, as it's more secure, but - as you pointed correctly - less user friendly.
Really appreciate your input. Thank you for your comment!
All the best!
Thank you for your answer!!
I agree that a comment such as "how are you today" could fool the algorythm but in the meantime whoever will tag remind-me is already aware of what he is doing so i dont think he might write such comment.
The only possibility i forsee is that he could write his date/time on another line.
Still the "how are you today" example could be excluded by the algorythm since a reminder will have any date/time keywords but the most important thing is they will use AT or ON as a prefix to their messages most of the time like "ON the 2th of June 2019" or " AT 5:00 a. m.". Thus filtering aswell using this keywords will help in detecting REAL reminders.
Again great job and keep the good work up!!
Cheers