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Reduced functionality? The current state of the Windows 10 timeline function introduced with noise
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"Timeline" feature introduced in "Windows 10 April 2018 Update"Yesterday, "Windows 10 Insider Preview" Build 21359 (CO_RELEASE) was released, and one of them caught my attention. included changes. The option to upload activities to the cloud has been removed from the Timeline feature in Task View.
The option to upload activities to the cloud from the Timeline feature in Task View This is missing in the latest preview"Timeline" refers to the "Windows 10 April 2018 Update" released three years ago It's a feature introduced as an extension of the Task View, a task switching screen that can be accessed by pressing Windows + Tab. It is a unique function that displays the history of activities (activities, work) such as browsing web pages and editing documents in a card-style list, and you can return to that work simply by clicking it, using the search box. In addition to keyword-based activity search, you can operate the slide bar on the left side of the screen to go back in time and search for activities based on date.
What's even more amazing about this feature is that you can sync your activities to the cloud via your "Microsoft account". Not only can you continue the work you were doing on your desktop PC on your laptop on the go, but it is also integrated into the Android home screen application "Microsoft Launcher", so you can see the content you were browsing on your PC on your smartphone. It is also possible. Some of you may have been expecting support for iPhone/iPad.
The timeline that was also integrated into the Android home screen application "Microsoft Launcher"
However, unfortunately it seems that this function was not used much.
If you think about it, even if you can access the editing activity of the document from another PC or smartphone, unless the document is saved in the cloud, even if you can launch the app, it will not necessarily open the document. Local files cannot achieve the timeline concept of "recovering past work".
In fact, the timeline on my desktop PC is also full of "local activities" such as editing local text, playing local media, and viewing local documents. Since you are using a powerful desktop PC, you would like to edit and enjoy files on high-speed local storage. It's a natural consequence.
A timeline in which "local activities" that cannot be resumed are grayed outOn the other hand, this problem does not occur with web content browsing activities. You can open it without problems on a synced laptop or Android smartphone. However, if the web browsing history is displayed as a card each time, that alone will fill up the timeline. Also, only "Microsoft Edge" supports the timeline. Extensions for "Google Chrome" are also available, but few people bother to install them.
A timeline filled with similar hotel reservation pages and e-book purchase pagesIn other words, it was ideally attractive, but in reality it was a feature that was not very useful. The option to send activity history to Microsoft was disabled by default, so many people may not have noticed the option. The only thing that has been removed this time is the option to upload activities, but if this is widely deployed in the product version, it seems that the activity cloud sync function will effectively end.
However, the concept of being able to go back in time and access past activities is relatively convenient. The cloud sync option is gone and it's a bit degenerate, but it's still usable for local activities. If you learned about the timeline function of [Task View] from this article, or remembered its existence, I would like you to use it again.
