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bandantonio / obsidian-apple-books-highlights-plugin

Import highlights and notes from your Apple Books to Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=apple-books-import-highlights
MIT License
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Highlights not listed in chronological order as expected. #19

Closed genremonk closed 7 months ago

genremonk commented 7 months ago

The display of the highlights and notes appears to be shuffled. Not quite random, but not in sequential order; i.e. the order they appear in a book, resulting in confusion.

bandantonio commented 7 months ago

By default, highlights appear in the order you made them in the book (by creation date: from older to newer). For example,

Phrase 1 (highlighted fourth) Phrase 2 (highlighted first) Phrase 3 (highlighted third) Phrase 4 (highlighted second)

The plugin will list the highlights as follows:

Phrase 2 (highlighted first) Phrase 4 (highlighted second) Phrase 3 (highlighted third) Phrase 1 (highlighted fourth)

So this is a feature, rather than a bug 😀

Closing this issue as ordering options (including the current one) will be implemented in the feature request #12 You may wanna subscribe to that request to stay updated with the progress.

genremonk commented 7 months ago

". . . highlights appear in the order you made them in the book."

I figured that this is the intended behavior, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I am annotating a book linearly (it's fiction, so I know I wouldn't be jumping around like I might in a text book), and yet, the highlights and associated notes do not appear in order upon import. Mostly in order, but some are out of sequence. Thanks for your attention.

bandantonio commented 7 months ago

@genremonk Thank you for the detailed reply. I need to check this behavior more closely.