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FBarrca / obsidian-handwritten-notes

Obsidian Handwritten Notes Plugin
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Support NeoReader for Onyx devices #11

Closed sevadah closed 9 months ago

sevadah commented 9 months ago

Hi,

First, thanks for your work, I have been looking for such a plugin for a long time. I own an Onyx eLink device with a capable PDF reader/annotate - NeoReader. It can access files in tablet storage, so I can open a PDF file from the Obsidian's vault and annotate with it, however, changes are not stored back to the file (if I open it through the annotate button from your plugin).

I checked the settings of the NeoReader and it is set to save changes to the exact location from where it opens (indeed if I open the pdf in my Obsidian vault from the native file manager, everything works as expected and I can see annotations on the pdf). When I open the pdf through the plugin, and do some annotations they are not visible within the Obsidian, but when I re-open with the NeoReader they are there... So my guess is, when I open the pdf with your plugin, you load it in some sort of temp/cache directory and then reopload it to Obsidian?

So I wonder, what are the possible solutions, and whether/how I can help to resolve those.

Cheers

FBarrca commented 9 months ago

TLDR: Many apps don't work, use one of the referenced on the README. I recommend you sideload Xodo 5.0.22, which is the app that i use.

long answer: The technical issue is that obsidian only exposes the share api on the mobile (capacitor) versions of the app. I have never dived deep into native android apps, but it seems many apps are badly coded or are outdated and don't use the latest(from android 10) api share recieve intent. Therefore, the file isn't really referenced, and instead it passes a copy to the app. This isn't really something I can fix, as my hands are tied at both ends.