Improving the handling of annotations

[jim_chapman]

I think Freda can do most of what you need already.  When reading text, select a block of text (for instance by dragging the mouse over the text, and/or by moving the selection handles using the mouse, with the left button held down).  Right-click on the selected text to pop up the menu, and from that menu choose 'note' to directly add an annotation to your text.

To export all annotations in a book, click ... at the bottom right of the page, then click the 'bookmarks' button to pop up the list of all bookmarks/annotations.  On that flyout page, below the list, you will see a 'save' button.  That will save all the bookmarks/annotations in an HTML file.  The columns of the table are (1) a Freda-specific reference, consisting of chapter and word number (2) the text from the book (3) the annotation (4) a reference to the location, in the standard 'EPUB CFI' format.

The piece that Freda does not yet do is the automatic synchronisation across devices.  At present, it has to be done manually:

• On device #1 when you're finished reading, tap the hamburger button at the top of the main screen to open the menu; choose 'backup (merge/save/load)' and select 'save'
  
• Next to 'save', tap the button and select only 'bookmarks+highlights'
  
• Next to 'for', choose 'only current book'
  
• Click the 'save' button at the bottom of the screen and wait for the operation to complete.
  
  
• On device #2 tap the hamburger button at the top of the main screen to open the menu; choose 'backup (merge/save/load)' and select 'load'
  
• Next to 'load', tap the button and select only 'bookmarks+highlights'
  
• Click the 'load' button at the bottom of the screen and wait for the operation to complete.
  

In a future release I will be allowing for automatic synchronisation of more things - but this will not be coming in the near future.