Something that I would like to propose that the folks at Fibery give some consideration is to promote dates to more of a first class role in Fibery.
What I hope for is that dates are automatically created as entities within their own default database/space. Currently I have to do this manually and it is a pain, especially with there being a lack of good date formulas and such. Also, if I want to link to a date in the future, I have to first create it, then link. Not to mention the work I have to do for weeks/months/quarters/years and relating those together. I know I’m not the first person on this forum to try to create spaces to handle dates.
There are apps that have the idea of a “DNP” or daily notes page which serves as the central jumping off point to everything else. So everyone can simply work within the page for the current day and link to other entities from there. Imo, Fibery already struggles with not having great dashboards/a home page, and this could somewhat fill that role.
Anytime a date is linked in an entity, in notes or fields, I want it to be automatically shown on the corresponding date page/entity. They should also be shown and collected in the related week, month, quarter and year entities. Then it’s super easy to do things like reviews and goal planning (my pkm use cases) and I’m sure other small business related actions.
TLDR: Dates are one of my most central primitives, almost all of my work happens there, and I think they should be considered as built-in entities in fibery.
Hard agree! Looks like they are already thinking about something of this type. Hopefully there will be a rich discussion about how it could work before implementation.
I was going to post about this request as this is a backbone of Notion, and Tana is making a great run now with having Dates as a major element in how it’s structured. I did not see the post @Oshyan yet in that thread you quoted, so good that this is being discussed. I think this is the biggest request around this so I edited the title a bit @Sarah_Arminta so it’s crystal clear what’s in play here, hope that was OK!
One of my greatest needs would be when doing rough-draft style docs in Fibery, it’s useful to see when big edits are made. Like new thinking around some concept that is still in rough form - it would be great to just put in a date in front of the next set of paragraphs expanding the doc. Then go to a “today” page and see that on that day, I spent time ideating on a few ideas. The doc would also show these days like you can do in Notion, Tana, etc.
Hope this picks up steam and glad it’s on the table apparently!!
Yeah, I would really, really love to have this addressed. I find myself unsure how it would work well with the current database model, particularly given the need for future dates, etc. But perhaps some light, specialized functionality that simply facilitates date selection and then automatic creation of that date entity would work. This would result in a “sparse” date database where only the used/linked-to dates actually existed as entities, and I’m not sure if there are issues with that which are not occurring to me at the moment. The alternative of prepopulating the database with dates both backward and forward seems clunky if not outright problematic though… Or maybe not, 3650 entities for a 10 year span of dates I guess.
Yes good approach! Basically if each date was an entity of its own…would also love to see the ability to have a “today” page and get a summary of what you did on that day - even just extracted from the audit log which already has this capability, but maybe with a more modern, quick U/X…I was experimenting around with UseMotion.com, which seems to be gaining some steam as a task manager (another good use of Dates I’d love to see something similar in Fibery), and they have this type of view when it comes to activity around an entity…so maybe some concise view of what you did, with collapsable details like this (which I highlighted), would be interesting for a “today” page…
A dedicated “on this day” activity list would be nice. I was thinking of it just being the References to the date being that list, albeit only complete to the degree of explicit references. Are there things you would want to show up in such a list that aren’t explicit references?
Yes, I think it’s very useful to have a page, or an area, that shows you all the activity you did on a certain day - done in a more sophisticated presentation that just like an “activity log” you can pull up and see all you did. Possibly with the ability to turn on or off the “all activity” vs. just things tagged with the date. Tana, Roam etc seem to have some concept of this “day” view and for my team things like being able to get an automatic wrap of your day would be very useful.
Just wanted to give this another bump - my team extensively writes out dates in Fibery - when updating docs, in titles, etc. and it would really be a dream to be able to do something like type “@today” and have today’s date pre-fill…you guys remain ahead with your natural language in date handling - better than Notion and others I’ve tried, I love writing in “now” and having the actual time just fill in….got some good votes and hearts on the initial post, and this would really be useful I think - and just as an update I noticed the app I mentioned a few posts above, that leverages dates similarly, Motion, got a big $38m round of financing in Sept., so this type of date handling seems to be well regarded in the market.
Technically this is possible with scripting. You have an automation that triggers every night to overwrite all text that says “Today” with the current date.
What I could do is edit the Better Dates Integration so that the date that is today has a “Today:” prefix (As well as a “Yesterday” and “Tomorrow”. And maybe some other stuff. Then you can mention that date, and it will perseve the date even after it’s no longer today.
I hadn’t seen the Today’s Date Shortcut post yet…I will say that what I’d like to see more is a comprehensive handling of dates like in Roam, Tana, and the Motion app I mentioned, that would incorporate the @date mention that is discussed in that request, and for sure I am talking about here as the key element of what I am voting for…but what I’d like to see, and what is not in Notion (as far as I’m aware), is the ability to have a page or area that pulls in all of what’s going on around that date. In Tana for example, it will show on a “daily notes” page both mentions of the date via @mention, and if you have that date included as a due date, or mentioned in any other way. This is super useful and helps create a great view of what’s currently going on in an instance. This can basically serve as a “what is happening today in your company”.
So I vote to keep this feature separate from the other one, which is kind of a “sub feature” of this. Thanks again!
The Fibery team beat me to it! The Period integration from today’s update solves a lot of this quite well I think.
Then you mention the date, you see all the places it’s mentioned, so you could have “Today” / “This Week” / “This Month” be pinned somewhere and you’ll see all the places it’s mentioned. And if you have auto-linking on, you can see everything that is linked to this date. The UI is probably worse than the dedicated feature from tana, but I think it works!
