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?
