Scope any AI Chat prompt to a period by naming the period in the prompt itself. You do not need a date picker or a fixed format: write the range the way you would say it, and the assistant reads it.
- “Highlight unresolved key issues from last 3 months”
- “Tell me the summary from yesterday’s meeting”
- “Compare revenue between January and March 2024”
- “What milestones are due next quarter?”
- “Show me progress month to date”
Patterns AI Chat understands
Every pattern below works anywhere in a prompt.
Last N periods
Use a digit or a written-out number, with days, weeks, months, or years.
- “Show me all customer feedback from the last 10 days”
- “What were the top issues reported in the last 3 weeks?”
- “Analyze sales performance over the last 6 months”
- “Compare our growth with competitors from the last 2 years”
- “Summarize all project updates from the last two days”
- “How has our team productivity changed over the last five years?”
Written numbers one through ten are supported.
Couple and few
- “What urgent tasks came up in the last couple of days?”
- “Highlight key decisions made in the last few days”
- “What new opportunities arose in the past couple of months?”
- “Analyze user feedback from the past few weeks”
Next N periods
- “What are the planned deliverables for the next 3 weeks?”
- “Show me projected revenue for the next 6 months”
- “List all upcoming events in the next two days”
Past N periods
- “Analyze user engagement trends from the past 30 days”
- “What were our biggest achievements in the past 2 years?”
- “Highlight security incidents from the past two weeks”
- “What lessons can we take from the past three months?”
Calendar periods
- “What were the key accomplishments from last week?”
- “Show me all invoices generated last month”
- “How did our company perform last year?”
- “What meetings were scheduled previous week?”
- “Compare our growth metrics with previous year”
Current periods
- “What are the priorities for this week?”
- “Show me all expenses recorded this month”
- “How are we tracking against our goals for this year?”
Named days
- “What meetings do I have scheduled for today?”
- “Show me the summary from yesterday’s stand-up”
- “What deliverables are due tomorrow?”
- “Remind me about the presentation day after tomorrow”
- “What was discussed in the meeting day before yesterday?”
Quarters
- “What were our sales figures for Q1?”
- “Show me the performance metrics from Q2 2024”
- “What are the strategic initiatives for Quarter 3?”
- “How did we perform in the first quarter?”
- “What are the goals for next quarter?”
- “Compare our results with previous quarter”
To date
- “What’s our revenue performance year to date?”
- “Show me all project completions quarter to date”
- “What are the expenses month to date?”
- “How many support tickets were resolved week to date?”
- “What’s the sales pipeline looking like YTD?”
- “Show me customer acquisition numbers QTD”
Months
- “What were the hiring statistics for January?”
- “Show me all project milestones from March 2024”
- “What’s been happening since January?”
- “List all customer onboarding from Dec”
- “What changes have occurred since March 2024?”
Full month names and their three-letter abbreviations both work.
Explicit ranges
- “Compare our performance between January and March 2024”
- “Show me all activities from Jan to Mar 2025”
- “What trends emerged from February to May 2023?”
- “Show me all transactions 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31”
Years
- “What were our major accomplishments in 2024?”
- “Show me all financial reports from 2023”
- “How did we perform compared to 2022?”
Halves and fiscal years
- “What were our key metrics for H1 2024?”
- “Show me the performance summary for H2 2023”
- “What’s the budget allocation for FY2024?”
- “How did we close fiscal year 2023?”
Anything else
If a phrase does not match one of the patterns above, the assistant still tries to read it as a date.
- “What meetings are scheduled for next Friday?”
- “Show me all tasks completed two weeks ago”
- “What deliverables are due January 15th?”
- “What’s planned in 3 days?”
- “Show me notes from last Monday”
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