Add feature to change the History

[ramack]

Allow inserting activities in the history view.

• [x] edit notes
• [ ] remove activities
• [ ] exchange activities
• [x] change start and end times (with or without adjacent diary entries)
• [ ] insert activities
• [ ] allow to add images
• [x] allow remove images

do so by adding a new activity to edit a diary entry

[Echsecutor]

change start and end times (with or without adjacent diary entries)

This would be a very helpful feature! Often I realized that I changed my activity like half an hour ago without pushing the button.

[ramack]

Do you have an idea how this would beat be implemented? E.g how should we get to the possibility to change the time? - this issue was meant to be in the diary/history view, but the usecase you mention should probably be easier to access that...

Suggestions welcome!

[ramack]

Thanks BTW for the feedback. This is very helpful!

[ramack]

I am not an expert in UI design. Is someone willing to suggest how the history edit can be implemented? - a simple picture could help already a lot.

For the current activity we could add a button, but another Floating action button will probably be an overload and just b tapping on the duration is not visible enough... on the other side decreasing the Selection view for the next activity is also not so good.

[ramack]

ok, my idea would be to in the history/diary:

• left swipe on an activity reveals a trash and deletes the entry on finalizing the swipe (if it is not reversed before the finger lifted) the history shows an "unused slot" with ""; right swipe the same
• two finger swipe will insert an activity between the two entries which are closest to the center of the two fingers. Duration is 5min (but configurable in preferences), cutting half of it from the pre- and half from the successor.
• the action bar in the diary gets an "edit" icon, on selecting it the screen is "filled" with floating action buttons:
  • a multi-action FAB is shown on the left side (...) pressing it will make it multiple possibilities: delete activity - trash, edit Note, add picture
  • one with up and down arrows between all the entries (in the screen center), on dragging them up and down the edge between the two adjacent entries is shifted (affecting start time of the later one and end time of the earlier entry), during the drag the duration of both activities and the time (which is new end and start) is displayed in a toast at the finger position, if one of the activities is crossing a date boundary not only time, but also weekday and date is shown.
  • during editing the height of the entries is scaled with their length (short entries are small, long are very height)
  • on the right edge of the screen an "insertion arrow - with a +" is shown at each boundary between entries In the "edit mode" there are a lot of floating action buttons, but if they are not made too prominent it might work out I think.

on tap onto entries in the history, and also into the upper area of the main window, a new activity should open, showing

• Start and end time (end is "ongoing" in case of current activity) and date
• calculated duration
• bigger note field
• pictures in more space maybe even in a tabbed view, to have note and pictures full screen and a statistics view of
• when this activity was performed last
• how long the average time span is is
• ? all editable

Any comments?

[ramack]

mh, editing the times graphically is hard to get right and intuitive. So I decided to go for a edit activity for now, to simplify note editing and allow to change start and end times.

Still we need further improvements, but I think they can wait a release.

[ramack]

@Echsecutor and others: what do you think about the current possibilities for editing the history? - I have some improvements in mind, but what is the top priority in your eyes?

[Echsecutor]

@ramack I have just tried 1.2.5 and I like the possibility to change durations. Thanks for adding it! My next most wanted feature would be remove activities. If I accidentally clicked something... ;)

[ramack]

😃 until deletion and insertion is implemented there is only one workaround: if you directly recognize that you touched the wrong activity you can use the UNDO in the snackbar after selecting the wrong one.

The real solution would be to provide a pull request, or wait.

But also highlighting it again and again is welcome, because it shows me what the users really want.

[Echolon]

I definitely suggest to inplement the remove possibility. Unless, the pretty much unusable.

[michaelsam94]

I have question in delete history entry now the deleted activities shows when search so how I get rid of specific activity completely.

[ramack]

@michaelsam94 this is intended behavior, as the activities are the list of things you can select, and deleting one will not allow to select it in future, but in the diary I want it to stay as this is documenting 'history'. What you seems to be looking for is to delete all instances of a certain activity in the diary. This has to be possible, but it is not yet implemented.

[michaelsam94]

willing to implement it?

[ramack]

Yes clearly. It is on top of the list, but I don't have much for free software these days.

The good thing is, that anyone is free to implement it - I promise to merge a pull request!