Date created
Sometimes it's just very beneficial to see a 'date added/created.'
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Sometimes it's just very beneficial to see a 'date added/created.'
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2 Posted by kara.n.monroe on 23 Apr, 2010 07:20 PM
I would agree this is a key feature. I'm also having trouble with the due date not showing up if I enter it by hand. This isn't a big deal (I can use the calendar to choose dates) if the date is in the near future, but when planning a multi-month or even multi-year project this is a real annoyance
3 Posted by Proximo on 23 Apr, 2010 09:40 PM
+1 from me.
4 Posted by MardiGrasStephen on 24 Apr, 2010 01:46 PM
+1 here also
Support Staff 5 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 24 Apr, 2010 03:31 PM
@art - Hear you loud and clear. We are exploring ways to display all of the meta data associated with a task, without cluttering up the UI. So you know, each task has the following meta data, though we don't display everything on screen:
in place but as yet unused:
...and then there are a bunch of system level relationships (such as user association, parent project, area of responsibility, sort positions, etc) which I won't bore y'all with.
Perhaps some sort of "get info" hover bubble would be helpful here... just a thought.
@kara.n.monroe - It's on our radar to let users type in a date without using the calendar widget... but it's on hold until we work out the internationalization issues re: mm/dd/yyyy vs. dd/mm/yyyy vs. a dozen other formats that would be expected to "just work."
More than half of Nirvana's users are from Europe and Asia. You wouldn't know it from our English discussion boards, but we're huge in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. I'm from the states, but most of the Nirvana team is Canadian, which causes enough confusion in the office as 4/5 could mean April 5th or May 4th depending on who you ask.
Anyhoo, we'll address this soon. We have a bunch of folks waiting to assist with translating Nirvana into about a dozen other languages, and we'll certainly have to address date formatting as part of that rollout.
Support Staff 6 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 24 Apr, 2010 03:37 PM
Forgot to mention, other meta on the drawing board, but not yet committed to:
And of course, you can always create your own tags to create filters/flags for meta data we haven't explicitly built in to the system. For example, for now I use the tags p1, p2, p3 for priorities.
7 Posted by roddyt on 25 Apr, 2010 09:18 PM
Elbert,
From what you say it sounds like the dates you're not already displaying (creation, completed, last modified) are at least being collected. So that means when you start displaying them, existing tasks will retroactively have dates? That's good news if so.
As far as how to display the meta-data, I like the mouse-over method (I think that's what you mean by hover bubble). Toodledo shows meta-data, plus a few commands, by mousing over the completion checkbox. I find that handy.
Roddy
8 Posted by Proximo on 26 Apr, 2010 01:12 PM
My two cents here from my Toodledo days. I agree with roddyt on the use of the mouse over method to display some meta-data, as this will keep the UI cleaner but there needs to be some visual hint that mousing over will display something.
One of the many things I did not like about Toodledo is having options hidden with the mouse-over method. This made Toodledo very difficult to use and learn. New users where confused as how to do simple things that where hidden in the mouse-over bubble and I think it's a bad UI design for actual options to be hidden that way.
One example is on creating a task duplicate. You had to mouse-over the check box for about 1sec in order to see the option show up. Most users initially would not ever think of doing this in order to access functionality.
This could be just me, but just wanted to mention it since I believe it was one of the many things that made Toodledo harder to use. As we add functionality to Nirvana, I want the experience to maintain it's simplicity to the GTD Method and be easy to use for new and veteran users.
In Toodledo, only the Veterans knew how to harness the full power of Toodledo because it took us month's to figure it out. I want a new Nirvana users to feel comfortable after 1 to 2 days. :-)
Support Staff 9 Posted by Christiane Magee on 04 May, 2010 07:58 PM
+1 for keeping features intuitive and simple. :)
10 Posted by glassflank on 02 Dec, 2010 08:57 PM
Yes I would also like this, especially to check how long items have been in the 'Waiting' list.
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