[IAEP] Note-taking

[James Simmons]

The Read ETexts Activity can do highlighting and note taking and multiple
bookmarks.

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=read+etexts&cat=all

The catch is it only works with plain text files. There are a lot of these
at Project Gutenberg, and Word documents can be saved as plain text, so you
might be able to use it.

James Simmons


On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> Read activity can't add these types of comments, just can add notebooks
> for pages, and that comments cam have text associated.
> Read activity can display PDF, ePUb and text files. In the text files can
> highlight text.
> Would be possible modify Read to add the highlight to ePub files,
> for PDF would be a little more difficult. (evince, the piece of software
> we use to display PDF
> is adding that feature right now, but we use a older version of the
> library)
> I am available to work (on contract) in these features if you are
> interested.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro <sora at unleashkids.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For our upcoming literacy project in Haiti, we'd like users to have the
>> ability to take notes on books while they're reading them - basic things
>> like highlighting, drawing arrows and such, or leaving text comments. It
>> would be nice if they could then save those notes.
>>
>> I'm guessing many of the books we are using will be available as ePub or
>> PDF. I know the XO activity Read supports those formats, but I don't think
>> it has all the features listed above.
>>
>> So, should we be looking to modify the Read activity or modify the texts
>> themselves, in order to enable those features for readers?
>>
>> Thanks for the advice, everyone!
>>
>> Sora
>>
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