This probably isn't a good idea. However:

I think it's slightly disconcerting sometimes to be reading an idea that has a long history, but a 'lumpy' history - ie, a mass of annotations all within a few days, then nothing for a year, then it carries on in a normal rate of additions.

What I suggest in this idea is to have the hb software draw a line across the annotation text table (the beige of the bottom-row nav backgrounds would be nice), wherever there's a big gap in time. Say, six months or over. I don't know. Something like that.

That way when we're reading an idea, and we see a beige line, we know there's been a passage of time, compared to the rest of the flow of annotation entries.

It would have to make exception for the final annotation (which could've been over six months ago, but wouldn't need a line drawn).

Or maybe not. I'm not convinced this would work.
-- Ian Tindale, Apr 10 2005

Hmm. An interesting thought. Are you thinking it's like an <hr> element?

Maybe there's a different visualization...a timeline of the idea right up at the top of the idea--or something.
-- bristolz, Apr 10 2005


Pretty much, with css styling to do the colour and width and stuff. Alternatively, it could be the bottom border of a table within a table. (Each annotation is a whole table unto itself within a larger table on the page).
-- Ian Tindale, Apr 10 2005



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