Easy way to read messages (short, frequent texts)

[Mycheze]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I sometimes chat with people in my target language, and I would love an easier way to read their messages in Lute. It's not too hard to just make a new book per message, but it gets a little messy.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would love a sort of book where I can just add a new page, paste in new stuff and then read that page. That way, I can just make a different page per message and a different book per person. It would be a lot easier to review the history of the chat, as well as have a more seamless way to read colloquial speech.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The ideal version would be an extension that works on everything all the time (this is a joke, but it'd be cool). Another, more realistic version, would be something like a chat thread (like a whole other kind of text) where instead of adding new pages, you can just add new text bubbles. But I think this would end up being less elegant than the first solution.

[jzohrab]

Hi @Mycheze - does the edit > add page thing work for this?

I probably need to add some notes to the manual, this is a recent-ish feature iirc.

[Mycheze]

That would work pretty well, yeah! But I have no idea that was a feature. Having it hidden so deep in the sidebar feels weird.

[jzohrab]

UI design is tough! You're one of the maybe two people who asked for a way to add pages, so having that link be more visible causes clutter for other stuff. Maybe there's a clever way to make it customizable:

• allow for people to arrange for things they commonly use
• customizable hotkeys (#59 )
• expose the javascript functions so that they can be attached to custom browser commands (e.g. I have an "open_all_books" link in my menu bar that I was using regularly at one point)