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Revision history has been a super useful feature for us, but cards with multiple revisions can become tedious to navigate. Users have to click each individual version to see changes.

Suggestion:
Add a drop down or comment box allowing users to summarize changes when updating a card. This comment would be visible next to each revision date/author/links. Examples

  • updated ex] with new process
  • clarified instructions on oy]
  • removed outdated info on oz]
  • fixed typo or formatting
  • etc.


Value: This would allow read only users and authors to more quickly navigate revision history and understand which changes are relevant.


Additional suggestion:
For insignificant updates (e.g. typo or formatting):

  • give the ability to remove them from the revision history
  • don’t prompt for verification if the author isn’t a verifier

We’ve found these changes:

  • clutter revision history
  • temporarily decrease trust in a card (over something that shouldn’t) and add an unnecessary prompt for verification

Related idea - for the last part (revision history & minor changes - typo/format), only have those revisions visible to authors (and not read only)

@Amelia Altstadt We currently use comments to do this - and it’s the only thing we use comments for! 

Hi @Ali Berman ! Thank you, we’re using comments for this as well. However, it can be difficult to cross reference (especially for threads that have been expanded on.) 

Hi @Ali Berman and @Amelia Altstadt, 

I’m happy to share we’ve incorporated an improvement allowing authors to save a short note when publishing a card into our work on shared drafts and collaborative editing. Not only will the optional comment become part of revision history, but it will also go out in follow notifications so that followers have a little more context about the changes made. We hope this will be helpful! 

Open→Accepted

@Laura Desmond-Black That’s awesome! Really like the idea of the revision history AND the notification aspect. Thanks for sharing and I’m really looking forward to this!

Hello!

Earlier this week we began releasing the new collaborative editing and shared drafts experience which has the improvement I mentioned here a few months ago. Now when publishing a card, authors have the option to leave a short summary of the changes they made for future reference. The message is visible in Card details after publication and is also included in follower notifications to help followers know if they want to take action. 

Option to save a note when publishing.

 

The message becomes part of Revision History after publication.

 

We hope this helps, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

Accepted→Complete
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