Issue
Cards have different date fields, for example: it’s created date, It’s edited date and it’s target date. However the default ‘always visible date’ is it’s last edited date. While this is useful for some workflows, allowing us to change the default visible date to the target date or the created date, definately suits workflows that align with journaling, work notes or meeting notes better, as it’s the target date that takes precedence for the card here.
Sort by target date is my most used parent card sort, but even when using this sort I have to click each card individually to check it’s target date, which is cumbersome. Or add the date into the card title itself which can muddy the readability of cards.
Use Case
Gives greater clarity and at a glance viewing for journal entries and collections that are target date specific.
What this change could look like
Global Setting
A much neater option in the user settings to choose the default date type shown on cards. However can run into the issue if people only need this for certain collections, sorts or workflows.
Sort Dynamic Filtering
Instead of a setting, the default card date shown could adjust based on the sorting of the parent card. In the sort options, we can choose; Creation date, Last Edited or Targetted Date. Any of these sorts show us the primary value the user is looking for, and so we can adjust the default date to further reflect that.
Collection Specific Setting
Allows specific collections like work notes, meeting notes and journal entries to change the default date type shown when viewing that collection.
Card Specific Setting
Focused down to the card level, however may be very cumbersome to continuously change on cards.
When clicking on the date field for a card, we see in order from top to bottom; Edited date, Created date and target date. From here we can select the default which would be highlighted, currently like how the target date is highlighted for every card in this menu.