This just happened to me recently that I wanted to delete just one paragraph of text, but I didn’t know all the paragraphs on this particular page was connected. And BOOM, everything on the page was deleted!

It would be nice if an UNDO was added and stays there until we reload the page or for like an hour. Maybe you could keep a history of everything instead, and allow us to deleted the entire history or several items in the history if we please.

Either of these two ways will be better than losing everything on your page.

But regardless, I still love the new Backpack!

I recently read an A List Apart article about using undo rather than just confirmations in web apps: A List Apart: Never Use A Warning When You Mean Undo – which noted both Highrise and Google Mail and how GMail has a trash folder—undo would be a nice addition to the 37signals apps.

That was the article I read about it too! Funny how I read it the same day that happened to me.

Undo on any text items is a must, considering they don’t take up too much room. Maybe we can get like a 24 or 48 hours from time of deletion to undo it. And maybe for filetypes we can also undo them for a 24-hour period, before it’s gone forever.

There are so many ways to implement undo.

Add me as a 4th who thinks undo is a good idea. I agree that an aging mechanism works, and as well a purge mechanism could be implemented. When deleting an item it would age off after x days|hours or while items are in a deleted state but not yet aged off a page a purge link would be present on the page confirming all deletes.

It’s the best of both worlds in allowing an undo, while still providing a way to clean up space quickly with a confirm.

+1 for undo – just a message at the top of the page, or a 24 hour history per page (similar to the revisions in Writeboard).

I’m definitely pro-undo, but I think just a simple one-step undo is best. It’s equivalent to what we have now (in that you get one chance to save something) but much better (you get your chance at the right moment, and you’re not annoyed when you really did want to delete something).

mamster is completely right. It has to be very simple and, above all, unobtrusive—it shouldn’t “get in the way.”

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It doesn’t even have to be a true undo. If deleted text just went to a big bucket that could be picked through, that would be helpful.

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Backpack cannot be used for anything mission-critical until it gets some sort of restore or undo capability. I just nuked an important note accidentally, and now its gone forever. The result: I’m moving all of my BP stuff to VoodooPad until this changes.

I really hope an UNDO feature is in the works. It will save a lot of headaches.

+10

Undo would be really great. My notes are absolutely essential to me.

+1

I’ve used Opera, and obviously opera and Backpack don’t communicate very well. I have unintentionaly deleted something someone else has been working on for hours! :(
I don’t think I will be using backpack for much longer.

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I haven’t had any problems, but a trash bucket or some sort of undo sounds like a nice idea.

+1 !!

quote : “Backpack cannot be used for anything mission-critical until it gets some sort of restore or undo capability.”

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