What does your feature entail? What is it for?
Allow partial entries in the time fields in Kagi Search. This will allow the user to more quickly enter From Date or To Date entries, not needing to enter all three parts of the entry: year, month, and day.
For example, when a user enters only the year 2025 in the From Date field and clicks on the Search button, the search should only include results from the beginning of 2024 to present by assuming the From Date is January 1st. See screenshot below for this example. Similarly but slightly differently, when a user only enters the year 2024 in the To Date field and clicks on the Search button, the search should only include results since the end of 2024.
Similar behavior can occur when specifying the year and month but not the day by assuming the first day of the month for the From Date and last day of the month for the To Date.
This behavior should be the same whether the user is on the main kagi.com homepage (without any results yet) or on kagi.com/search and modifying the current query.
How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?
The current behavior for partial entries in the To Date or From Date fields when using the main kagi.com homepage makes the Search button nonoperational, doing nothing when clicking it. This feature request would allow the Search button to be operational, while assuming the unfilled parts of To Date and From Date as described above.
The current behavior for partial entries in the To Date or From Date fields when modifying an existing query on kagi.com/search will refresh the page while ignoring From Date if it is partially filled in and ignoring To Date if it is partially filled in.
What are the exact ways that you see a user using your proposed feature?
This feature proposal is not the introduction of a new feature but rather a suggested change in the behavior of an existing feature (filtering by time). This feature request may instead be called a bug report because the behavior is not intuitive for the user, especially with the nonoperational Search button or ignoring (partial) inputs from the user.
Related feedback entries:
The Problems with date fields feedback entry from late 2022 includes multiple issues and suggestions. This stale post seems some points in that post have been addressed but not all. Point 4 on that post is related to my post.