History grinding exceeding fine…

[Leslie Richelle]

Is it just me, or is History recording each and every teeny thing I do? I don't remember InDesign, QuarkExpress, Pagemaker or Corel being so anal about showing all the sordid details. Is this configurable? How many megalines can History record before "brain freeze"?

[dominik]

2 hours ago, Leslie Richelle said:

Is it just me, or is History recording each and every teeny thing I do? I don't remember InDesign, QuarkExpress, Pagemaker or Corel being so anal about showing all the sordid details. Is this configurable? How many megalines can History record before "brain freeze"?

Hello @Leslie Richelle,

I think this is what a history feature is about  How would the program know what you don't want to record?

There were some threads about the need of recording 'unmark selection' or not and Affinity team has stated that they consider to think about this.

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How many megalines can History record before "brain freeze"?

In 'Preferences > Performance' there is a slider that sets the 'Undo Limit'. By default it is set 1024 and it can be increased to 8192. I assume brain freeze starts at 8193 

Cheers,
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[Leslie Richelle]

You may have put your finger on it: other programs seem to offer Undo limits in the hundreds, not thousands. I suppose Affinity is trying to be more clear and more thorough than the bloat-monsters with whom they compete. But there's no way I'm going to scan through 8K+ lines of Undos without suffering brain freeze myself!

[fde101]

might be useful to be able to filter the list?

[cubesquareredux]

9 minutes ago, fde101 said:

might be useful to be able to filter the list?

+1

[dominik]

19 hours ago, Leslie Richelle said:

You may have put your finger on it: other programs seem to offer Undo limits in the hundreds, not thousands. I suppose Affinity is trying to be more clear and more thorough than the bloat-monsters with whom they compete. But there's no way I'm going to scan through 8K+ lines of Undos without suffering brain freeze myself!

I suggest to look at the History Studio if you are not familiar with it. At the top there is a slider that lets you slide through all changes. It gives a visual feedback that might help to identify which undo step you are looking for.

Affinity Designer has an even more advanced history feature that let's you select multiple future versions. I could think this will be included in APub at some point, too.

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[Leslie Richelle]

15 minutes ago, dominik said:

I suggest to look at the History Studio if you are not familiar with it.

I shall do that. Thank you.

[Michail]

7 hours ago, dominik said:

Affinity Designer has an even more advanced history feature that let's you select multiple future versions. I could think this will be included in APub at some point, too.

You can already use this in APub:

[dominik]

15 hours ago, Michail said:

You can already use this in APub:

Hi @Michail,

thanks for pointing this out. I completely missed that it is already in APub. Great 
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