DATESTAMP suggestion for NOTES

I often use my notes almost as a journal when I study Scripture. I would like to be able to date these notes, and then to arrange a note file by that date. For now, I just type in the date in the "title" area of the note, as shown here:

It would be really nice if I could easily SORT by title.

It would be even nicer if there was an auto-datestamp feature, with the ability to sort a notefile by date.

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Simon’s Brother

I often use my notes almost as a journal when I study Scripture. I would like to be able to date these notes, and then to arrange a note file by that date.

Long asked feature of notes from the early days of L3 [Y]

DMB

[Y] I designed that into my own Bible software and it's VERY useful. Over several years, many, many studies come together sequenced by date.

I also take a lot of notes from our Pastor, and when he 'returns' to a passage, it's interesting to see his previous comments.

tom

It would be even nicer if there was an auto-datestamp feature, with the ability to sort a notefile by date.

This request is already part of a request in Logos' uservoice of suggestions: http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-4/suggestions/1619077-rework-notes-function-in-one-or-multiple-phases?ref=title

Please feel free to add your voice to this request on uservoice.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300529#Comment_300529

Wonder about using a table in Word docx file, then build a Personal Book ?

Keep Smiling [:)]

Richard Lyall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300631#Comment_300631

It would be great to be able to view the datestamp on notes\highlights and to search them using date ranges.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300708#Comment_300708

In the latest beta 4.5 B4 there are sorting options within a Note file as below:

While this doesn't show the date the note was added it does go someway towards addressing what is being discussed in this thread

Graham

Keith Gant

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300714#Comment_300714

In the latest beta 4.5 B4 there are sorting options within a Note file as below:

While this doesn't show the date the note was added it does go someway towards addressing what is being discussed in this thread

Graham

That is great to hear; I had been wanting the ability to sort by reference.

If it is able to sort by date then it is obviously storing the note creation date. I wonder if it has been storing the date all along or only starting with a recent beta? If the latter, then sorting by date will only be done on notes created going forward.

DominicM

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300759#Comment_300759

I am still hoping however unlikely for a 2 level sort as in:

1st Sort: Note color
2nd Sort: Title

so all your reds would be together in alphabetical order..

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300759#Comment_300759

If it is able to sort by date then it is obviously storing the note creation date. I wonder if it has been storing the date all along or only starting with a recent beta?

L3 annotation files were in xml and they stored a creation datetime stamp. L4 are in a database and I expect that practice would have continued so I don't imagine this would be an issue - a good question though Keith.

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300714#Comment_300714

While this doesn't show the date the note was added it does go someway towards addressing what is being discussed in this thread

Yes this is there, Graham, now we just need it to display the time stamp....this should be optional per note file as you would not want to necessarily have it showing for every note file.

Keith Gant

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300777#Comment_300777

If it is able to sort by date then it is obviously storing the note creation date. I wonder if it has been storing the date all along or only starting with a recent beta?

L3 annotation files were in xml and they stored a creation datetime stamp. L4 are in a database and I expect that practice would have continued so I don't imagine this would be an issue - a good question though Keith.

That's good to know. It means the original poster's request (to display the creation date on the note) is possible. I too would like to see that.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/300777#Comment_300777

If it is able to sort by date then it is obviously storing the note creation date. I wonder if it has been storing the date all along or only starting with a recent beta?

L3 annotation files were in xml and they stored a creation datetime stamp. L4 are in a database and I expect that practice would have continued so I don't imagine this would be an issue - a good question though Keith.

Date created and date modified were stored with L4 annotations before this beta.