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Date Stamp
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robertm |
I generate a lot of remarks in the "Note" field on the web app, it would be a great help to have an automatic date stamp generated for every entry I make. Maybe even a toggle to turn it off and on. I don't see any provision for this, am I missing something?
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Jeremy |
In most incident-tracking systems that I've used, there is a "comments" section where you can add one comment at a time. Past comments are displayed but are not editable. So you get a trail of multiple comment entries, each one with a timestamp, and in a multi-user environment each entry would indicate the username that made the entry.
Currently Toodledo uses a free-form notes field, which doesn't work so well with the above scenario. For corporate work such as customer support, I think the first solution is required. However, I kind of like the simplicity of Toodledo's free-form field. I am curious if there is a way to reach a happy medium between the two designs. I haven't thought of one yet. |
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sventhebrit |
@Sheep-Dog
Have you thought about using Autohotkey to do this. You can programme a hotstring so that when you type "dt" it would immediately transpose in to the current time ie. 13 Feb 2009 10:26 PM You can get details of the package from www.autohotkey.com and a sample script you could use would be :*:dt:: FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm tt SendInput %CurrentDateTime% return It is a very useful tool. If you are thinking of taking a look, then check out http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm for a quick start. The script I included above was taken from the http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotstrings.htm webpage (I have modified it slightly). Steve |
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Proximo |
I would also like to suggest this as a very useful feature. I understand that you can make it work with Autohotkey and I want to thank sventhebrit for pointing this out.
For most users, this is something that would not be easy or convenient for them to implement. The reason a simple time stamp button would be great is very simple and has already been described by Sheep-Dog. A time stamp is useful to keep updates on a particular task so that you can refer back to it later. I have a task that although may be a little complicated, it does not qualify as a Project. It's nice to keep a log of the progress of such task and a time stamp would make every new log entry very useful. I have a task that requires some feedback from someone else. It does not have multi-steps, but I do need to wait on someone's input at certain times to eventually compete it. The time stamp will show me when the last update was made and remind the individual that I am needing the information from about it. "Hey Bob, I know you are busy with other things at the moment, but I really need the information I asked you about on 04/12/2009. Could you please let me know your thoughts" Right now we are having to start every new text entry with a manually typed date and it get's old quick. The time stamp button will simply put the current date and time where the cursor is. please consider it. thanks |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Erik |
Hi,
This feature would be extremely useful for our company aswell! Not having to bother manually adding time and date. thanks, erik |
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Erik |
Also need to add that we use the iphone app aswell...need datestamp there too. :)
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