Quick Pad

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Quick Pad enables you to store notes and retrieve them using natural language. However, your notes should be both grammatically correct and simple. While this might be really limiting, it makes it precise during retrieval. Check the following conversation for instance.

You: Open Quick Pad.
Quick Pad: What's on your mind?

You: Take note My driving license expires on June 7th (A different voice will confirm the recognized date, if any)
Quick Pad: Noted. Your driving license expires on June 7th

You: Take note John's insurance expires on June 8

You: Take note John has borrowed my battery yesterday

You: Take note Sophia's insurance expires on July 7

You: Tell me What expires in June?
Quick Pad: There are 2 records. My driving license...John's insurance...

You: Tell me What expires? (Sorry but "Tell me everything expiring this month" does not work, not yet)
Quick Pad: There are 3 records...

You: Tell me about John.
Quick Pad: John has borrowed... (One result only. "John's insurance" is not "John")

You: Tell me about insurance.
Quick Pad: There are 2 records...

You: Take note She bought two pressure cookers. ("She" is not the Sophia mentioned above, not yet)

You: Tell me How many cookers did she buy?
Quick Pad: She bought...


Options to retrieve notes
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1. Just ask e.g. given

She bought two pressure cookers
She bought five slow cookers
She bought three cats

You can ask questions like:

How many cats did she buy?
How many slow cookers did she buy?
How many cookers did she buy?
How many bottles did she buy?
How many did she buy? (Does general search for any of her purchases mentioning numbers)

2. List command. "List my notes (from the last 5 minutes, yesterday, etc)"

"List all notes" loads all notes. It is useful if you want to issue a subsequent "delete notes" to clear everything.

3. Tell me command. "Tell me about John". If you don't remember the exact way you said your note, this is the way to go.


Options to delete notes
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1. Immediately after a note is saved, say "delete (this) note"
2. After a certain number of notes have been displayed, say "Delete these notes". A list gets displayed by requests such as "Tell me about John" and "List my notes from yesterday".
3. Say "List all notes" and then "Delete these notes" to delete everything.

About Dates
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All dates should be in Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. To get the current time in UTC, ask "what is the time?" or "what time is it?". Time zones are ignored or may cause errors in some cases.

If a date expression is not valid, you will be told so. For example, as of the year 2019, "last year 2015" will fail.

You can enjoy robust date checks as long as your note contains valid date. If, on a Monday, you say

Parcel arrives on Tuesday

then you're protected from duplicating it in the following way

Parcel arrives tomorrow

You can specify exact date if you wish to be precise, as in "Parcel arrives tomorrow Tuesday twelfth of February 2019"


I hope you will find the skill to be useful. Please leave feedback. I would love to hear from you.