Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+1

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+1 !!

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

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+1
I haven’t had any problems, but a trash bucket or some sort of undo sounds like a nice idea.

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

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.

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+1

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+10

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

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

++1

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.

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+1
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.

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

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

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

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).

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

+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).

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

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.

Topic: Having an UNDO when deleting stuff

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.