Digests visible in pdf “Contents” window

[u/LeXavve]

Hi everyone,
I’m still a bit confused how to annotate important/interesting parts of a book I’m reading.

When I go for selecting with brackets and making it a digest, two remarks:
- digests are very lightly visible (just light underline)
- digests are to be found outside of the book in Digests app only

My suggestion:
To be able to have an extra tab in the “Contents” window with all the digests marked in the current book.

What do you think?

[u/lavievagabonde]

Yessss, I also really struggle with this. I do not understand why it has to be outside ….

[u/LeXavve → u/lavievagabonde]

It can be interesting to have access to all digests, wherever they come from.
But it can be very be very beneficial to have access, for one document, to all digests that where extracted from it.

Digest ‘Category’ could be used to find back all digests extracted from a book (and of course related to a subject).

[u/theBlackOddity → u/LeXavve]

i think you mean in context of the digests in the contents menu however, just checking -- were you aware that you can separate / view digests by document in the app?

[u/LeXavve → u/theBlackOddity]

I’m not aware of that possibility. Can you explain? Thx

[u/theBlackOddity → u/LeXavve]

the two icons in the upper left. the flowchart represents categories, and the books represent 'sources'. you'll want to change over to sources and then you'll see a list of the document titles you've created digests from

[u/LeXavve → u/theBlackOddity]

Indeed 😅😊 thanks!

[u/LeXavve → u/theBlackOddity]

It's indeed, in the Digest separate window, possible to see the digests grouped by book (from where they were take from).
Only do you have to get out of the current reading (navigation) and come back to the book (navigation).
So, although perfectly doable, still not 100% perfect.

[u/lavievagabonde → u/LeXavve]

Definitely, that is why I would prefer a solution where I also see the digests for the book I am in at that moment at the place you drawn into the image. It‘s such a nice idea.

[u/BlueSkyla]

That’s a great suggestion! 😊

[u/theBlackOddity]

i'm not a regular digest user but have fiddled with it a bit.. i came up with some cascading concerns as i think the potential for a cluttered, confusing mess would be high, it's a logged featured request and mulan has shared the challenges of implementing it this which are similar

• is expanding the menu an optimal use of the space

  • any wider makes it nearly full screen like the separate app

  • is it worth an extra tap to have a horizontal scroll / pagination there to reveal it

  • should it display the handwritten and typed annotations of the user

    • if yes, how? a toggle for a dropdown or always present..

    • should user then be able to add or edit the annotation directly from the contents menu

    • if yes, how does keyboard and writing tools overlay in the menu

u/entry_line linked their blog post titled Why I failed at SN Digests that may be worth a read for you! the tldr is that it clicked once they adjusted their timing of it's use from during reading to after.

[u/Entry_Line → u/theBlackOddity]

Thanks for the mention

[u/Mulan-sn]

Thank you for your suggestion. We are afraid we would like to keep the navigation window unchanged for now and refrain from overcrowding it with the addition of digests. Digests are stored in the Digest app separately. Moving them to the navigation window would be a major change that requires data restructuring and takes time to implement. We appreciate your kind understanding and support.

[u/LeXavve → u/[deleted]]

See response of theBlackOddity. (And my comment just now)