Time of creation and completion
I would love to be able to see when I created or completed an item in my list. This would let me see how long something took to do, or how long it's been since I worked on a project. You could make these tags visible or invisible with a keypress.
Being able to sort or filter by date would also be nice for answering questions like "what did I work on last week?" or "what are the oldest items on my list?" (This last one might help me send unimportant items to the trash and clean up my list, which is so satisfying.)
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WorkFlowy doesn't retain the created timestamp data. Would be very helpful if this were added. +1
It does maintain timestamps for both last-changed and completed, and you can use search operators to filter.
To filter for "what did I work on last week?":
https://workflowy.com/#?q=last-changed%3A7dLikewise here is what you completed in the last week:
https://workflowy.com/#?q=completed%3A7d(note: previously using the completed search operator would toggle "Show completed" ON automatically, you may have to manually toggle it on due to a new bug)
re Sort:
Physically sorting bullets by last-changed criteria isn't practical, since the act of sorting (moving) bullets also alters their last-changed meta data. -
I agree time created is one of the most important tools for organizing and sorting data, which is what Workflowy is all about!
Mind you, that physical sort issue mentioned by @rawbytz is ANOTHER reason why the date created would be helpful (physically changing the order, and changing the last-changed data, wouldn't change the created data)
And thanks for the tip about filtering last changed
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Agree on timestamp of creation (maybe default in "%F %T" format (="%C%y-%m-%d %d:%M:%S", such as 2018-12-17 12:36:39). We should be able to choose the display format.
Disagree on sorting if it affects the update time. Agree on sorting if update time is modified only when we change content or status.
As there are some APIs that can create data, maybe the nanosecond (%N) could be interesting.
P.S. Format values referring to the POSIX standard date command, which should be similar to strftime's format.
P.P.S. Strongly disagree on the purpose of "how long something took to do", but that's another story.
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I'd love to be able to physically see when an item was completed. If I have a list of 10 items that have been completed over a week or so and I want to file them in nodes by completion date, it's more efficient to just look at the node, see that info, and then move the item. If the item hasn't moved since you completed it, then last-modified kind of gives the info you need. But if you accidentally move an item later, then that date and time updates, so it's no longer useful.
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Our brains access-find info based on classification hierarchies and workflowy proves that in spades--love this! Yet since often things belong in multiple categories that search strategy doesn't work and you have created search functions for that. Again nice.
Our brains also tag info in a time-stream like, "I did that a few days ago" or, I remember I wrote something about that a month or so ago. The hidden operators are nice. How about a more robust time-based search system? For example a time-based slider (I like this kind of gui tool) or show items based on time-segments where both segment size (+/-) and time-point (xdays ago) can be set eg find items: 10days ago +/-2days. This would be very helpful. Thanks.
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I'm still hoping for this! I need creation dates for my established workflow, and I can't switch to Workflowy until it has them. There's a similar feature request: Creation or alteration date - where there's a response from Workflowy support, saying it's on their wishlist, so that's a good sign.
For me, it would also be critical to be able to import and export the dates in OPML. See: Export dates in OPML and Support extended OPML data from other outliners.
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I'm a relatively long-time WF user and use it more-or-less vanilla. Lack of creation date is really a problem for me. I'm starting to just type the date in the bullets when I know I need it, but I don't always know I need it.
IMO mirrors should keep the creation date of their original, duplicates (#copy) should get a fresh creationdate, and clipboard operations should carry the original creationdate with them. For bonus points with mirrors, the "$n mirrors" list you can get should give the creation dates of the mirrors themselves rather than that of the original
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