Age calculator

[middlebrun]

I often need to calculate a person’s age based on their date of birth for medical documentation. Ideally, the output would appear as “8-year, 3-month-old” as I have a pediatrics practice. Is there a workflow in Alfred for this? If not, can TextExpander or another app perform this quickly?

 

Thanks!

 

Sean

[giovanni]

welcome to the forum @middlebrun! What would be your preferred format to entry the date of birth? 

[deanishe]

 

[middlebrun]

YYYY-Mon-DD

 

2021–May-26

 

Thanks!

[giovanni]

this should work with your format, keyword: 'age'.

hope this helps

[middlebrun]

@giovanni Thanks! It works great. Much appreciated

 

Is it easy to alter so that only the year and month appear? Including the date is too granular for my purposes. I guess I better learn to code...

 

Sean

[giovanni]

1 minute ago, middlebrun said:

only the year and month appear?

you mean entering year and month only? like: `2003-Dec`?

[middlebrun]

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I'd still like to enter the full date of birth (as "2003-Dec-16") but generate to the clipboard only the year and month (as "10y 1m"). 

 

Thanks again for your kind help!

 

Sean

[deanishe]

8 minutes ago, middlebrun said:

I'd still like to enter the full date of birth (as "2003-Dec-16")

 

Enter or paste? That's a lot to type, and pasting is a waste of time when you could just select the date in another app and hit a hotkey.

[giovanni]

delete these lines below from the python script, or use this version

if Days > 0:  
        finalString = finalString + str(Days) + 'd '

yes, as @deanishe says if you are able to select the date you might want to apply the script to the clipboard content and launch it with a hotkey

 

[deanishe]

Just now, giovanni said:

apply the script to the clipboard content and launch it with a hotkey

 

Hotkeys can use the current selection as input, so you don't necessarily need to copy anything.