# How do you save data in the date component
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975 "2020-04-06T20:42:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mindsmatter](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mindsmatter)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975/1 "2020-04-06T20:42:20Z")
I am trying to get data to save on a specific date the user chooses but I do not know the best way to do that.
For example my idea is that if on May 5, 2020 the user writes in a text box and the text saves but on May 6 they write on the same text box with the text from the fifth being cleared but when they go back to May 5 what they wrote is still there. I want to be able to do that to any date.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975/2 "2020-04-06T21:27:30Z")
Sounds like you are building a note taking app. You could check this out!
feel free to remix and share your own version!
> [@Jared's Cloud to-do app](http://community.thunkable.com/t/jareds-cloud-to-do-app/502646):
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> Components: Cloud Variable / DIY Extended Listviewer / Recursive Functions / Dynamic Labels / RealtimeDB Authentication Hey Thunkers!I have wanting to use firebase for a while to store and retrieve lists of variables. quickly. but parsing all the text is resource consuming, takes a bunch of blocks, and is tricky. I considered the cloud vairables for some time now but couldn’t wrap my head around how to use private user keys. I have figured it out and want to share with everyone here. In my exa…
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### Author:  [@mindsmatter](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mindsmatter)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975/3 "2020-04-08T02:33:24Z")
Thanks I’ll check it out. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-save-data-in-the-date-component/559975/4 "2024-11-08T11:39:19Z")