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Posted by Matthias Steffens
Feb 26, 2020 at 11:19 PM
> As an example, take a look at the text note displayed
> in this scrrenshot:
Apologies, the screenshot URL seems to have been removed from my previous post, it’s this one:
https://keypoints.app/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20190811-Keypoints-02-Visualization-A.png
Matthias
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 27, 2020 at 10:58 AM
Hot damn! This is looking better by the day!
I want one!
Posted by Matthias Steffens
Apr 26, 2020 at 04:36 PM
Matthias Steffens wrote:
> Darren McDonald wrote:
>> The only thing that scares me is the use of markdown. I work with rich
>> text because I have a hard time reading and mentally processing markup.
>
>I see, and I understand that formatting markup can get distracting or
>make things more complex. However, in Keypoints, I choose plaintext as a
>base format for the notes since this is the most stable & future-proof
>format.
>
>[..] In Keypoints, when you select some text in the PDF and create
>a new note from it, the note’s title and quotation get already created
>for you (in Markdown syntax).
>
>Other note elements can be added by drag & drop or a menu command /
>keyboard shortcut.
Apologies for the late follow-up to my own reply, but I wanted to share a little screencast which illustrates the above:
https://keypoints.app/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Keypoints-01-AddHighlightNote.mp4
In this 2-minute screen capture, I’m creating a new note from text highlighted in a PDF. Since the bibliographic metadata were already fetched for this PDF, upon creation the note automatically contains this info:
- the text quoted from the PDF
- the PDF page number of the quotation
- a default label (with a yellowish color)
- the note’s creation date & time
- the bibliographic citekey, formatted reference, & DOI for the PDF article
- the file path to the PDF file on disk
- the PDF annotation info
- the note’s ID
The title contains the first words from the quoted text (which are selected so that you can change the title right away).
In the screencast, I’m then adding the following info:
- a link to a related note
- some keywords
- a star rating
- a new label called “Next” (to group notes which contain tasks that I want to do next)
These elements all get added via interface actions (drag & drop, menu commands, or autocompletion), and Keypoints inserts the corresponding Markdown into the plaintext note (at the right position), syntax colors it & makes it clickable.
Hope this illustrates things a bit better.
Matthias
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 28, 2020 at 08:49 AM
Good grief - that’s actually very impressive. And the video is a very nice demonstration of what you’re aiming to achieve.
That’s going to be an amazing product (in the not-too-distant future?)
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 28, 2020 at 05:10 PM
Can I get Keypoints this afternoon or tomorrow morning? LOL
I would be more than happy to move from MarginNote to Keypoints.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Good grief - that’s actually very impressive. And the video is a
>very nice demonstration of what you’re aiming to achieve.
>
>That’s going to be an amazing product (in the not-too-distant
>future?)