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[Feature] Auto-complete date field after only typing the day #2854
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Originally created by @histefanhere on GitHub (Jan 24, 2026).
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
Typing in my transactions is a weekly activity for me, and with many transactions it can take some time to input them all. I appreciate all the hotkeys and efficiencies built-in to ActualBudget that makes this quicker.
One thing that hasn't been made as efficient as it can be however is the completing the Date field when creating a new transaction. It needs the Day, Month, and Year to be input of course, but to make it quicker current behaviour allows you to only input the day and month, and the year will auto-complete. However, just typing in the day doesn't auto-complete the month and year. For example:
25/01/2026<tab>sets the date field to 25th of January 202625/01<tab>sets the date field to 25th of January 202625<tab>is registered as invalid and sets the date field to the default, today's date.Describe your ideal solution to this problem
When the user inputs just a single number into the date field, interpret it as the day and auto-complete to the current month and year.
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The UI updates the calendar date picker when a valid input is typed in, I don't know how or when it should update to reflect the user's intended input date
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jan 24, 2026):
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@histefanhere commented on GitHub (Jan 24, 2026):
Afterthought: Aahhh I see why this maybe hasn't bothered as many people as I expected it would, in the settings I have my date formatting set as
DD/MM/YYYYmeaning the first number I type in would be the day, but on the default setting ofMM/DD/YYYYyou have to first type the month then the day. This feature could still work with the default though, or possibly just be implemented forDD/MM/YYYY/any date formatting option where the day comes first.