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  1. "Open containing folder" for linked attachments

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    durexlw commented  · 

    This already exists: Just right-click on the attachment and select "Open attachment's containing folder"

  2. Parent label inheritance: a variable to have the label of a parent-node repeat in the current node

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  3. Boolean filtering and time dimension

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    durexlw commented  · 

    Take the example of Jeff that works for "Company NoMoney" from 1995 to 2002 and then moves to "Company LotsaMoney" from 2002 and still works there currently.

    If you connect Jeff to "Company NoMoney", you give the connection a start- (1995) and an enddate (2002). In the case of connecting Jeff to "Company LotsaMoney", you just fill in the startdate (2002) and leave the end-date blank.

    Now imagine a simple timeline slider on the bottom of the plex. If you drag that timeline slider to year 2000, the connection of Jeff to "Company LotsaMoney" disappears (since it didn't exist back then) and the connection to "Company NoMoney" appears. If you drag the slider up to the year 2012, the connection of Jeff to "Company NoMoney" appears and the connection to the other company disappears.

    Technically, all you need is two new parameters on a connection: startdate and enddate.
    Visually you only need a timeline slider and maybe a switch to enable or disable the timeline.

    Basically all you're making is a filter: the slider just filters (show or hide) all connections that were active in that timeframe, where 'blank' date means active.

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    You could take this up a few notches, like for example when you select a node, and the node has date-enabled connections, then on the timeline the dates are shown, suggesting the node has date-enabled connections and you can easily 'snap' to those dates on the timeline.

    This probably also allows for the very elaborate ideas I see appearing here, like complex exports... anyway, on a very practical level, thinking from a company and personal point of view, all I would want to see is:
    -> does a node has date-enabled connections?
    -> I want to go easily back to those dates
    -> when I go back to those dates, I want to see "a vision" of that time and how the connections were back then.

    -> an off-switch of the timeline would then just show all connections that ever existed

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    point is: look at it as a filter and it becomes both very easy and practical in use, as well as easy to implement.

    For my company right now it would definitely be an added value: currently my plex is filled with connections that are of historical use, whereas I'd only would like to see the connection if I turn back the hands of time to for example ask the question "how did our finance department look back then?"
    I'd then just select the finance department node, see in my timeline it changed in say 2001, I click-snap to 2001 and connections disappear and other appear, giving me a visual snapshot of my entire company as it existed in 2001

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    Seems to lean into this threat: http://thebrain.uservoice.com/forums/4597-thebrain-feature-suggestions/suggestions/69229-timeline

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