From 07b9742d98d8068ae14f752babfe2715f031fc0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kolaente <k@knt.li>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:18:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: skip quick add magic parsing when text is wrapped in
 quotes

Closes go-vikunja/vikunja#2392
---
 frontend/src/modules/parseTaskText/parseTaskText.ts | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/frontend/src/modules/parseTaskText/parseTaskText.ts b/frontend/src/modules/parseTaskText/parseTaskText.ts
index 3a65989d3..573dabf70 100644
--- a/frontend/src/modules/parseTaskText/parseTaskText.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/modules/parseTaskText/parseTaskText.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ export const parseTaskText = (text: string, prefixesMode: PrefixMode = PrefixMod
 		repeats: null,
 	}
 
+	// If the entire text is wrapped in quotes, strip them and skip all parsing
+	if (
+		text.length >= 2
+		&& ((text.startsWith('"') && text.endsWith('"'))
+			|| (text.startsWith('\'') && text.endsWith('\'')))
+	) {
+		result.text = text.slice(1, -1)
+		return result
+	}
+
 	const prefixes = PREFIXES[prefixesMode]
 	if (prefixes === undefined) {
 		return result