One thing I really miss about Notion is the ability to type @today in any text block or comment, and have the system output the correct date.
Admittedly, Fibery does not have date smart objects. So this isn’t a request for a feature rich date. But I would love a shortcut of somekind whether @today or #today
I used the @today marker in Notion several times a day and I am really missing it in Fibery.
What should happen when you @today?
Is it in a rich text field/doc? Or in a date field?
Sorry for not being clearer. It’s in a richt text field/doc and will be turned into “yesterday” on the next day and will turn into a proper date after that. It’s basically like mentioning a person. You can find more info about it in Notion’s docs: Comments & mentions – Notion Help Center
The reminder function is not something I personally use. My usecase is rather to document things in tasks e.g. “called XYZ @today”
What effects do you envisage mentioning a date will have? I mean, when you mention a person, they get a notification.
When you mention a date, what should happen?
Is the implication of your request that the user who wrote the @date gets a notification on that date? Or perhaps other users do?
Or do you mean that you want to be able to plot entities on a calendar/timeline on the specific date mentioned in the rich text field?
Or do you merely want a shortcut for typing dates manually?
My primary goal would be that I don’t have to figure out the date and type it (as easy as that) plus giving it a formatting that stands out a bit. Could also be done by creating a shortcut on my computer, I have to admit. I’ve just grown to love this feature in notion and notice that I really miss it.
Sending notifications when the date is reached is something that Notion can do but is not my primary usecase (perhaps for others there might be more benefit in this).
Just for clarification, I think this is functionality beyond merely mentioning a date:
So typing @tomorrow is not the same as typing @remind tomorrow.
To me this looks like a duplicate of Today's Date Shortcut - add your vote to the 2 which are already there for that idea if you like it.
Also, I spotted a post in “Related topics” from @Chr1sG with a supposed workaround, but the link to a Fibery instance is broken: Template for 'Today' or 'Now' timestamps
Merged.
The template was not widely used and so was not maintained.
I’d like to type @today in rich text fields and have Fibery replace it with the date in mmmm dd yyyy format
This is a slept on feature for easy note taking when using dates.
Using Notion it displays like “@Today” when I type it but when I look at the note tomorrow it displays “@Yesterday”. And then when I look at the note again in 2 weeks time it displays the actual date “15-Jan-2026”
Then typing any other dates is awesome like “@Next Monday” because thats exactly my internal monologue when I type a note. There is no cognitive load for me to figure out what the exact date is and type it.
Just want to make sure despite my commentary over in Dates as first class citizens (in a database and as entities) which covers this idea, that I’m in here supporting this simple feature as @helloitse has explained it - this is also present in UseMotion and Tana and other apps I believe. My team has adopted a convention of YYYY-MM-DD and we manually write that out all the time so this would be a huge quality of life improvement. I have used one of my precious votes here as well, had to deleted it from another request!
Has anybody in this thread experimented with the Periods integration (using the Days type and including semantics)?
If so, what was it useful for and what was it lacking?
Since you’re asking, I looked at it, but didn’t implement. I spent about 10 - 15 minutes looking into it, but in the end there were parts of it that proved too much for me to try to configure and use in my instance…the integration/helper db stuff that was being illustrated in the use cases takes a lot of time for me to set up, and I am trying very hard to limit DB proliferation in a 6 + year old instance…I like the concept and it seems very powerful, but this is too advanced for me as I’m not a high-end developer. Would love to see “periods” as a type of date available in the native date functionality, and to have the ability to mention dates in real language, like you can do in the date picker, a feature I use constantly. Just setting this up as is described in the link you sent, and then trying to get my team to use it, is going to be too much.
I hope this is useful and please don’t criticize me for the potentially not glowing feedback, trying to provide it unfiltered as you guys encourage 