This feature is available now with Structured 4.5.4! 🥳 Learn more about it here. Please note that this feature is still in beta. If you have any feedback, please let us know.
Linnea
Team•
Aug 17
Pinned
This will be included in our upcoming update 4.5.4.
m2x
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Aug 6, 2023
Would love to see this implementation to remove the friction of planning your day. Just write when you will do what and how long it will take as well as if it's a recurring task instead of going through each step manually. It would save so much time.
Really appreciate the app and the updates so far.
trumonsa
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Apr 8, 2024
I haven't found a better card to suggest this, but: some kind of "intelligent dates/times" e.g. "on the last Sunday every month", "on the first Monday every month", etc. Also, another improvement related to this (although IMO less important than the one I stated previously) would be doing something similar regarding exceptions. For example, that you can schedule a task every Monday except if it's a public holiday.
Mason Foley
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Jun 13, 2025
This. I find the setting the time of a task in Structured to be awkward and cumbersome. I think this would be a home run if implemented correctly (i.e. how Todoist does it). Right now, having to click + and - is awkward and I’m not really sure (I keep forgetting) if I’m changing minutes or hours. The kind of tasks I enter are almost always less than an hour so if I could quickly enter a task that doesn’t default to an hour long and quickly increment or decrement the minutes, that would be ideal.
Mason Foley
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Jun 13, 2025
For example, I, right now, don’t even know what this middle value does. It just speaks to the overall lack of intuitiveness (for me) of manipulating time for tasks.
The main feature traditional Todo apps like Todoist and Ticktick have, keeping me from switching to structured, is their ability to process natural language. I.e. typing “doctors appointment Friday at 12:00” would set a reminder for the next Friday at 12. Or “check balance every Tuesday 10:30” would then create a task reoccurring every Tuesday at this time.
I tried many apps and, like so many others, switched back to Todoist/Ticktick, because others just don't have nlp.
This app has been extremely helpful and I would appreciate being able to manually type in the task start time which would be much less time consuming than scrolling to look for the correct time. Thanks.
Katheryn Love
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Mar 2
totally agree… whenever i have to enter the time i feel stressed. the current way is cute but so confusing and glitchy sometimes and a bit of a waste of time
Would love to be able to just type numbers for the times instead of having to use the scroll wheel. It’s super awkward, especially when setting specific start and end times and for people with vision and motor impairments (like myself).
Kevin Kimmig
Team•
Nov 24, 2023
this is only possible on Mac devices
notaname
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Nov 27, 2023
How is this only possible on MacOS? You can type in a time in Maps and Calendar on iOS/iPadOS. A competing app also just allows you to type in a time. This scroll wheel is cumbersome and is prone to errors. The amount of times I have accidentally scheduled something into the next day instead of the current day I’m planning for has been too numerous. Something needs to change about the way one inputs time and I’m sad to see this idea has been rejected. I think this aspect of the app cripples its usability the most. Structured is a good app in theory, but its usability makes it unbearable at times.
D33pwoods
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Nov 28, 2022
Event, Task, project entries would be such a breeze with natural language input.
Adrian Lammers
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May 13, 2023
Natural Language Input would REALLY take this app to the next level!!! Unfortunately it's a bit slow and cumbersome in its present state
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Linnea
Aug 21
PinnedThis feature is available now with Structured 4.5.4! 🥳
Learn more about it here. Please note that this feature is still in beta. If you have any feedback, please let us know.
Linnea
Aug 17
PinnedThis will be included in our upcoming update 4.5.4.
m2x
Aug 6, 2023
Would love to see this implementation to remove the friction of planning your day. Just write when you will do what and how long it will take as well as if it's a recurring task instead of going through each step manually. It would save so much time.
Really appreciate the app and the updates so far.
trumonsa
Apr 8, 2024
I haven't found a better card to suggest this, but: some kind of "intelligent dates/times" e.g. "on the last Sunday every month", "on the first Monday every month", etc.
Also, another improvement related to this (although IMO less important than the one I stated previously) would be doing something similar regarding exceptions. For example, that you can schedule a task every Monday except if it's a public holiday.
Mason Foley
Jun 13, 2025
This. I find the setting the time of a task in Structured to be awkward and cumbersome. I think this would be a home run if implemented correctly (i.e. how Todoist does it). Right now, having to click + and - is awkward and I’m not really sure (I keep forgetting) if I’m changing minutes or hours. The kind of tasks I enter are almost always less than an hour so if I could quickly enter a task that doesn’t default to an hour long and quickly increment or decrement the minutes, that would be ideal.
Mason Foley
Jun 13, 2025
For example, I, right now, don’t even know what this middle value does. It just speaks to the overall lack of intuitiveness (for me) of manipulating time for tasks.
Lance
Aug 17
•Merged request
•3 votes
Add natural language processing.
The main feature traditional Todo apps like Todoist and Ticktick have, keeping me from switching to structured, is their ability to process natural language. I.e. typing “doctors appointment Friday at 12:00” would set a reminder for the next Friday at 12. Or “check balance every Tuesday 10:30” would then create a task reoccurring every Tuesday at this time.
I tried many apps and, like so many others, switched back to Todoist/Ticktick, because others just don't have nlp.
Demps Chong
Aug 19
•Merged request
•21 votes
Manually Enter Time
This app has been extremely helpful and I would appreciate being able to manually type in the task start time which would be much less time consuming than scrolling to look for the correct time. Thanks.
Katheryn Love
Mar 2
totally agree… whenever i have to enter the time i feel stressed. the current way is cute but so confusing and glitchy sometimes and a bit of a waste of time
Treemere
Aug 19
•Merged request
•11 votes
Text input for time
Would love to be able to just type numbers for the times instead of having to use the scroll wheel. It’s super awkward, especially when setting specific start and end times and for people with vision and motor impairments (like myself).
Kevin Kimmig
Nov 24, 2023
this is only possible on Mac devices
notaname
Nov 27, 2023
How is this only possible on MacOS? You can type in a time in Maps and Calendar on iOS/iPadOS. A competing app also just allows you to type in a time. This scroll wheel is cumbersome and is prone to errors. The amount of times I have accidentally scheduled something into the next day instead of the current day I’m planning for has been too numerous. Something needs to change about the way one inputs time and I’m sad to see this idea has been rejected. I think this aspect of the app cripples its usability the most. Structured is a good app in theory, but its usability makes it unbearable at times.
D33pwoods
Nov 28, 2022
Event, Task, project entries would be such a breeze with natural language input.
Adrian Lammers
May 13, 2023
Natural Language Input would REALLY take this app to the next level!!! Unfortunately it's a bit slow and cumbersome in its present state