Thank you! I must have been going through a mind meld at the time. I shall correct my error.
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Screvi looks pretty neat! How do you like it (just saw yer post was from Oct, so late to the partyā¦)?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I wasnāt asking about Notes vs Drafts in general. I used Drafts for a while, but eventually decided to cancel my subscription. My question was specifically about extracting highlights. I currently use Apple Notes (the scan text feature) and it works fairly well. But its not perfect. It can be a bit fiddly at times, mainly because you canāt select the text you want scanned, the app does it for you. Sometimes you want to scan the third paragraph, but the app insists on selecting the fourthā¦
Man, I hate marking my booksā¦ Yes, Iām one of those peopleā¦. When I do it, Iām a minimalist. I highlight important sentences with barely visible marks. And then I index them on a Post it stuck at the end of the book. I never saw the point of marginalia. Thereās not enough roomā¦ You canāt search it afterwardsā¦ And for books or articles that need more in depth processing, I create a text file.
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I just cannot make myself write in the margins of a book! If I must make notes about the text, I rely on an ancillary notebook keyed to post-its, flags, and page numbers.
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Hmm. No idea on the differences between the scan features. Iām guessing Drafts relies on the OS scanning features so theyād be the same. Although the OP noted they find Readwise clunky, I actually find Readwise quite good at scanning paper book sections and you can select the text you want captured precisely.
With the screvi app, you can take a picture of your highlight in a physical book page, and it will automatically detect the highlighted text.
Much better and faster than dealing with clunky UIās.
The Apple notes way works fine, but I hate the time it takes to manually drag the text in the image. I prefer physically highlighting or underlining text, and then scanning it with screvi. That way you donāt lose focus on what youāre reading