If you'd like to add multiple tasks around a particular date then you might want to use a start point. You set one date and then define the dates of all the tasks relative to that.

Start point format

The start point uses Matthew Mueller's date library. It will take dates and times in formats like this:

Task date

The task dates & times are defined relative to the start point. For example you might want to have one task due one hour after the start point and another due two hours after the start point.

Each task should have a date period inside a #{} tag. For example:

• In a few hours #{6 hours}
• Before we started #{-7 hours}
• Combining measurements #{6 days 5 hours 4 minutes 2 seconds}
• Period in the past ("-" negates the whole lot) #{-6 days 5 hours}
• The actual start date #{}