I keep track of my work-related tasks in Dynalist. I have lots of tasks, and often need to work on several tasks in parallel. So Dynalist is indispensable for me to not lose track whatās going on. I write in subnodes about what I have done so I can easily remember what was the task about and context-switch easily when needed.
My problem
So, the problem is: I need to dive into a node to see what I was last doing with the task. Iād rather see everything at once, just the task and the last subnode I added/modified under it
Proposed solution
Add the following option: IF the node doesnāt have any notes attached to it and the nodeās children are collapsed, display in place of a note a link to the last modified subnode. (In fact, thatās what i am now doing by hand, it makes things better but is a bit tedious ā and could easily be done automatically!)
Unfortunately I think the proposed solution is too specific to your workflow. A dedicated option is also required because we obviously donāt want this to be the default behavior (if thatās the case, people will find that they can no longer properly ācollapseā things).
Is it doable to write the last bit of information in the notes section, and then move things to its children as they get updated?
For example:
Main task
Detail 2 (this is note)
Detail 1
and then when you add detail 3:
Main task
Detail 3 (this is note)
Detail 1
Detail 2
Or alternatively, tag the last detail with a tag (e.g. #new), and when you want to see the last update of each task, simply click on any #new tag to search.
Yes, I do understand that my workflow is definitely not for everybody. Of course if my change were implemented, it shouldnāt have been made the default.
Your suggestions are worth considering, but as for now I donāt think they are substantially superior to my current āmanualā workflow.
Iām thinking that I could write a js browser extension that does the thing, but if Iām not mistaken, you donāt expose the modification/creation date of a node in html. Maybe this isnāt hard to do and doesnāt have much downsides?
