Browser extension to show block creation & edit times on RoamResearch.com.
What it looks like:
This is useful when reviewing how much time you spent on a topic/thought/task.
- Toggle the time display using
C-c C-x. - The first entry is the creation time, the second the time of last edit.
- If those are the same (ignoring seconds), only one is displayed
- For times more than 24 hours in the past, the full date is displayed.
Note that the displayed times concern the block text only (and not any descendant blocks).
⏱ When a lot of blocks are loaded on the page, the app will start to respond slowly. Toggling off the time display while you are interacting with blocks will then help.
🎨 If you use custom CSS on Roam that drastically changes the layout, this plugin might well clash with it. Smaller theming changes should be fine.
- Installation from the Chrome webstore auto-updates. (Note however that there's a review delay whenever a new version is uploaded to the webstore).
- For Firefox, download the XPI file in the
distdirectory (or on the Releases tab on GitHub). Then install as follows. This installation will not auto update. (There is no auto-updating entry for this plugin on Addons.Mozilla.Org (yet): "Mozilla policy doesn't allow listings for add-ons for Roam Research because the site is limited access"). - When you want to install directly from source, here are the instructios for Chrome and for Firefox.
It's based on the feature described in this tweet:
If you hit
C-c C-xyou'll get an edit icon for every block, withdata-create-timeanddata-edit-time[attributes] – @Conaw (May 26, 2020)
This extension
- listens for DOM mutations (e.g. collapsing or editing any block);
- throttles these events (so that the extension code does not run too often);
- on each (throttled) DOM mutation, checks whether the document contains any
divs with a
data-edit-timeattribute.. - ..and if so, adds absolutely positioned
divs to the left of each bullet, with formatted time strings taken from the
data-..-timeattributes. - When the sidebar is open, some left-padding is added to both the main container and the sidebar, so that the timestamps fit on screen.