Date/Time stamp
If you would only allow me to put a date and time stamp in the notes section where each date/time stamp pushes the previous notes down, I promise I will change from Vitalist to Nirvana today.
I have asked this before but I cannot see any commitment on the part of the developers that they intend to commit to this. Let alone develop. It should not be too hard to make ("t" "shortcut for timestamp??).
Sort of like this:
03/01/2010:
No answer. Call back tomorrow.
02/28/2010
Left message with assistant.
This is all there is to it:
- shortcut "t" to insert
- pushdown text so newest is on top.
Of course you may do it automatically as in Vitalist. That is nice too.
And you may add the time for the note or have that in the preferences.
Support Staff 2 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 01 Mar, 2010 02:34 PM
Yes, this is on our list. UI wise we already have an internal prototype that we're quite happy with. It hasn't rolled out to production yet because of scalability concerns with the way we implemented it...
Gory details: we want to have a re-usable comment system for tasks, projects, shared projects, delegated tasks, references... and implement it in such a way that we don't kill our servers with too many front-end ajax requests or back-end table joins. We just need to find the right balance.
Hopefully we'll get to this in the very near future.
3 Posted by josvandervoort on 01 Mar, 2010 03:41 PM
Will very near be in the next release? I am doing my own little beta test on the migration from Vitalist. I might just go for it completely if I can get this any time soon.
Jos
Support Staff 4 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 02 Mar, 2010 10:47 PM
ooooo... motivation!
5 Posted by hank on 11 Nov, 2010 12:00 AM
I'd like to see this too. You can also do this in OneNote and sometimes it just ads it.
I like to keep everything together as I move through a task. So it is good to note the timestamp as each action completed. Also helpful as a reference and if any questions come up later.
I hope you do add it as it does seem a natural progression.
6 Posted by Ken on 11 Nov, 2010 12:18 AM
+1 I've got a great memory.. but it's short! So the date/time stamp would be a time saver. Would be ideal to choose date and/or time too. Just a thought.
7 Posted by Proximo on 11 Nov, 2010 02:00 AM
+1 from me. I do this today manually and it's a pain. I keep a journal if you will on each task to capture all the progress and steps along the way.
8 Posted by fjgirante on 11 Nov, 2010 02:55 AM
Yes.
I do the same.
I like very much the way rtm did it: you can have many notes, the first line names the note; each note as a date timestamp.
It would be great to have something similar in Nirvana
9 Posted by Rique on 21 Nov, 2010 05:34 AM
+1 I'm late to this party, but put me down for a "yes". I would appreciate date/time stamps on notes, however maybe that should be an option? Some may not appreciate it as much as I do.
10 Posted by John Iskra on 15 Jan, 2011 07:57 PM
+1 For me, too.
11 Posted by fjgirante on 17 Jan, 2011 01:49 PM
well..
almost one year went by....
Can someone provide us with an update. Where do we stand?
12 Posted by Proximo on 17 Jan, 2011 02:14 PM
No one knows.
All we know is that Nirvana Staff or working hard on Nrivana 2. What major and minor features are being implemented is not known.
13 Posted by Lasares on 18 Jan, 2011 09:00 PM
For this, I use Direct Access from Nagarsoft. It is a sophisticated text expander that I use mainly to fill forms with often-used data like names, emails, adresses, etc. One of the shortcuts I created is "dd" to insert the date in 110118 format, another is "ddd" to insert it in this format : January 18, 2011. The beauty of it is that it works in Nirvana and anything else, from word to email. And it does a lot more than that, even reminding me of HTML tags. It is one of my best investment in software (50$) and I use it many times every day.
Not that that I want o discourage Elbert from implementing it in Nirvana, mind you.
14 Posted by Rique on 20 Jan, 2011 01:27 AM
@Lasares, nice tip! Those of us who use Macs might be interested in this article, which covers some options for Mac users:
http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/productivity-review/head-to-head-te...