Task Notes: Building a Timeline of Context

While Custom Fields are perfect for storing structured, specific data (like a currency amount or a due date), sometimes you need a place to capture free-flowing thoughts, updates, or extended context over time. This is where Task Notes come in.

The Purpose of Notes

Each task in Mind Dump can have multiple independent notes attached to it. These notes are intended to provide additional, independent, but directly associated textual entities.

You might wonder: Why not just add a "Textarea" Custom Field to the session and type my notes there?

While you certainly could use a Textarea field, unstructured ongoing updates can quickly become muddled in a single text box. If you are tracking a long-running project or a client relationship, writing paragraph after paragraph into one field makes it difficult to parse out when a specific update occurred or what it was about.

Task Notes solve this by providing a convenient means of adding many separate, distinct textual entries. Every time you add a new note, Mind Dump automatically stamps it with its own creation date and time flag (and tracks when it was last updated). This transforms a static task into a dynamic, chronological activity stream.