Please add Cursor setting to toggle display of message timestamps

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

I have got into the habit of starting each chat with stating the time and date so I have some sense of when the chat started and subsequent messages occurred (I have to do this in other systems like ChatGPT etc where, for some reason, they also don’t show message timestamps).

But even doing that is not really helpful when I have several long chats that have occurred over the last several days, and a few of them may have broached the same subject matter, and I want to find, and continue chatting in, the most relevant chat based on what day and time I created certain messages.

I know I can click Show Chat History and the most recently updated chats are displayed at the top but, for reasons I don’t have the brain power to try and articulate right now, that still doesn’t help in this particular scenario.

So, my request is:

  • Please add Cursor setting to toggle display of message timestamps.

I’ve attached screenshots of:

  • What it could look like
  • The relevant HTML from Chrome Dev Tools

I added div classes chat_message_time_human and chat_message_time_agent with these styles:

.chat_message_time_human {
    color: #cccccc;
    font-size: 11px;
}

.chat_message_time_agent {
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    font-size: 11px;
    color: #f8f8f2;
}

Thank You.

Screenshot / Screen Recording

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