Highlights v. MarginNote v. LiquidText v

[anon41602260]

I think your effort is comprehensive and interesting – looking forward to see it develop. You might want to ask the admins to move your post to a separate thread so it doesn’t get buried and forgotten in this thread?

@msteffens

Notes should be as self-contained as possible. I.e., the note’s body text (or its metadata) should contain all relevant information (like its tags, creation date, linking & citation info, related file info, and of course the Zettel ID).

Please make zettel-anything entirely optional and configurable. The whole Z-mania will die off in a few months (as it usually does) so optional will be nice.

@msteffens

This means one should be able to easily see the context of one’s note. I.e., easily jump to the quoted text in the PDF source, and back again. Also, always keep the reference info in the note. Ideally, the reference info would be extracted automatically.

Ambitious and difficult, so how you pull this off will be interesting.

@msteffens

Notes are plaintext :

I am not sure how you can accomplish plain text portability (assuming it is based on some commonly used markdown library) at the same time as accomplishing the two requirements I quoted above. This would indeed be very useful.

I mentioned my own, perhaps niche, use case of needing to have a set of notes that cover multiple PDF documents (many to many) – which MarginNote does quite nicely, and LiquidText somewhat less well. Looking forward to seeing how to accomplish this sort of meshing with your solution.

Keep us up to speed as your work develops, please.