Thoughts without date tags would appear normally after time sorted thoughts.
A Preference could be added to automatically date/time stamp thoughts as they are entered. A Preference to display time in addition to dates could be added. New views could be created to display a date range of thoughts relative to the timeline context. The date range filter can be disabled to display all dates. A lock icon would restrain the current date range to allowing incrementing time filter by year, Mousing over year, month, date would reveal up and down arrows to make incremental date adjustments foward or backward. The date range would be changed by clicking on the start or end dates by a calendar popup. Only thoughts within the date range filter would be displayed. A range of dates to be displayed would show in large but faint type in the lower left corner of the plex. Added thoughts would then sort by time order instead of alphanumeric. The date or date range would display faintly below the lower left of each thought. Any thought could be tagged with either a date or a date range from the right-click menu. Just want to offer my input on how such a great new feature might be implemented. I'd then just select the finance department node, see in my timeline it changed in say 2001, I click-snap to 2001 and connections disappear and other appear, giving me a visual snapshot of my entire company as it existed in 2001 Point is: look at it as a filter and it becomes both very easy and practical in use, as well as easy to implement.įor my company right now it would definitely be an added value: currently my plex is filled with connections that are of historical use, whereas I'd only would like to see the connection if I turn back the hands of time to for example ask the question "how did our finance department look back then?" > an off-switch of the timeline would then just show all connections that ever existed > when I go back to those dates, I want to see "a vision" of that time and how the connections were back then. > I want to go easily back to those dates > does a node has date-enabled connections? anyway, on a very practical level, thinking from a company and personal point of view, all I would want to see is: This probably also allows for the very elaborate ideas I see appearing here, like complex exports. You could take this up a few notches, like for example when you select a node, and the node has date-enabled connections, then on the timeline the dates are shown, suggesting the node has date-enabled connections and you can easily 'snap' to those dates on the timeline. Visually you only need a timeline slider and maybe a switch to enable or disable the timeline.īasically all you're making is a filter: the slider just filters (show or hide) all connections that were active in that timeframe, where 'blank' date means active. Technically, all you need is two new parameters on a connection: startdate and enddate. If you drag the slider up to the year 2012, the connection of Jeff to "Company NoMoney" appears and the connection to the other company disappears. If you drag that timeline slider to year 2000, the connection of Jeff to "Company LotsaMoney" disappears (since it didn't exist back then) and the connection to "Company NoMoney" appears. Now imagine a simple timeline slider on the bottom of the plex. In the case of connecting Jeff to "Company LotsaMoney", you just fill in the startdate (2002) and leave the end-date blank. If you connect Jeff to "Company NoMoney", you give the connection a start- (1995) and an enddate (2002). Take the example of Jeff that works for "Company NoMoney" from 1995 to 2002 and then moves to "Company LotsaMoney" from 2002 and still works there currently.
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the biggest challenge here is how to make this practical and still keep it simple. It doens't have to have a big impact on the current implementation.
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