NL Task Creation & Speed Improvements part 1

This Week's Key Improvements 💁‍♂️

• Natural Language Task Creation - Date/Time
• Speed Improvements Part 1

Now, when you include a date or duration in your task title, it automatically schedules your task for you. We also spent the last two weeks focusing on performance improvements, since we believe "speed" is one of the most important features. Today, we’ve rolled out the first half of those improvements. Let me walk you through what’s new.

⭐ This Week's Highlights

Natural Language Task Creation - Date/Time 🤖

After creating tasks, setting a task date by pressing ‘H’ for shortcuts or manually dragging it into the calendar is also a waste of time. Now, you can just type the date or duration directly in the task title, and it will schedule your task instantly—no extra steps needed.

• Supported date/time commands:
  • today, tomorrow
  • Days of the week:
    • e.g. (last, this, next) Monday, Tuesday, …, Sunday
  • Relative date/time from today/now
    • e.g. 5 days later, 2 weeks from now
    • e.g. in 2h, in 30m
  • Exact dates
    • e.g. 2024/12/25, 9/24, Sep 15, 31 October…
  • Time
    • e.g. 11, 13:00, 4am, 2pm
• Supported duration commands:
  • From Time to Time
    • e.g. from 14 to 16
  • ~, -
    • e.g. 14 ~ 16, 2pm ~ 4pm

📝 We’re not supporting lists in task creation just yet, but stay tuned for updates as we work to bring global task creation commands soon!

Speed Improvements Part 1 🏎️⚡

No more performance lag by heavy data.

As your tasks and lists grew, OFFLIGHT would start to slow down. We've fixed that issue from the ground up, so no matter how many tasks or lists you have, the service won’t slow down anymore!

Faster calendar event creation

Previously, creating a time block or calendar event could take up to 4 seconds depending on your internet speed. That’s not fast, and definitely not what a productivity tool should feel like. Now, creating a time block or event happens instantly. This update only applies to single events for now, but next week, we’ll be rolling out improvements for recurring tasks and events.

Faster task loading on mobile

It used to take up to 3-5 seconds to load tasks on mobile, especially in the Inbox or Today views. (We admit, even we found it hard to use at that speed.) Now, tasks load instantly on mobile too.

🚀 Upcoming

• Just like the name of "Project 0.1 Second," task creation, update, and deletion will be reflected instantly.
• We’re also improving recurring event creation, and ensuring that changes(update, delete) to calendar events are instantly applied.
• Finally, we’ll be fixing major bugs and improving Notion integration after focusing on performance these past weeks.

🎒 Behind the Scenes

• One thing we’ve learned while building a productivity tool is that the broader the problem you’re trying to solve, the more you need both sharp focus and strong fundamentals. It’s a tough balance to strike within limited time and resources, and we’re always thinking about how to deliver both at once.
• We’re also delivering lots of useful new features, but not all of you are aware of or using them. How can we make sure you know about and use these new features? If you have any good ideas, let us know!

💞 Special Thanks

A big shoutout to Hiroyoshi, Satoshi Nitawaki, Carvalho Luiz, Pabiano Jr Alejandro, Ozmen Beste, Driggers Bruce, Moura Ribeiro Jessica, pavissketches, Robbe, hardik.chavda, besteozmen, mithil, Bruce, mygreatventure, alejandrojrpabiano, Labet, Chaves pinto, gwangwon6777, stepan, bhanukadilshan01, ilia, Aaditya, Carolina, Sai Charan, salmasumi860, Roman, steinadam23, Luis Antonio, marianemes1972, Han James and all the anonymous users who provided feedback.

Thank you so much for your feedback over the past two weeks. We’re wrapping up speed improvements, and after that, we’ll take the time to read through every bit of feedback and figure out what to improve next. Thanks again!