Quick link to post to date (backdated) from archive pages

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Quick link to post to date (backdated) from archive pages

Area:
calendar, entries

Summary:
Easy post-to-this-date link for journal owner viewing their archives.

Description:
This suggestion is really only useful for lifebloggers, people who are importing an external journal manually, and people who are looking through their archives to see if they've posted something and/or where something they know they haven't posted should go before posting it.

On any given day archive page of a personal journal, provide a link visible to the journal owner that leads to the update page, and pre-fills in the date from the archive page and ticks the Date Out of Order tickbox (and the current time, since a time has to come from somewhere, right? Or maybe leave the current time blank?). This makes filling in missing entries and events from the past a lot easier.

Obvious issues:
People may start using the day-post link in preference to the regular post links, and/or not know how to post in order
People may disregard the clear warning on the Date Out of Order box and be irritated when their entries don't show up on reading pages
Not sure you actually can pass date and Date Out of Order to the update page
Work-to-usefulness tradeoff (who all would even want this besides me?)

Poll #1746 Quick link to post to date (backdated) from archive pages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (27.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (9.1%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (63.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[triadruid]

I really don't like this much, actually. It's totally confusing (granted, I'm not someone who documents their life in chronological order on their journal) and seems to make a lot of assumptions about the user's understanding of how all these features work.

As an 'advanced' option one could turn on, maybe, but as a default link you could just strayly click? Nuh-uh (I'm in particular thinking of them getting up Monday morning and clicking on Sunday's link to document whatever happened, and then wondering why nobody sees it...).

[azurelunatic]

To make it an advanced option, I'm seeing something styles-y, actually, rather than a regular settings setting. This would require public documentation of how to build an update link with arguments, and would require some styles variables that could be inserted in the link. (Or a tickybox in the style.)