I'd rather see a feature that lists all nodes with recent activity. I know just look at new notes, but that doesn't always work because sometimes the title of the note has nothing to do with the node it is refering to. Plus sometimes a bunch of replies all come for one node, creating a longer list. A recently modified (possibly with a "5 recent notes") would be very cool.

You might be interested in my Mozilla sidebar (which also works with IE, I am told). Progress is stalled at the moment because it turns out that it's "good enough" right now for my needs. What I really have to do is couple it to a DB backend, so that I can just ask the ticker to give me the nodes created in the last five minutes (rather than 24 hours), and then produce the sidebar out of the DB.

This would also let me create day/week/month sidebars, handy for catching up when you've been off the net for a while. In the meantime, enjoy (and relieve the PM DB of the effort of generating the Newest Nodes page for you :).

The best feature of Newest Nodes is in your browser: the nodes you haven't seen yet, have a different colour. That's all I need.

Liz

The best feature of Newest Nodes is in your browser: the nodes you haven't seen yet, have a different colour.

I tend to use 3 or 4 computers during the day, and pop into PM throughout the day. Browser link coloring is of little use to me. I find that I have to remember root node titles to keep track of this.

An age indicator would have more usefulness.

-QM
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It shouldn't be hard, we already know the creation time of every node (see this xml ticker) and what you ask can be rendered as in chatterbox using title attribute. I'll try to create and propose a patch. But don't hold your breath :)