fonol
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3 years ago Hi, in principle I would find such a feature useful too, and I wanted to add it already a long time ago, but what kept me from adding it was that the add-on cannot know which field it should send the text to by default. People use totally different note types, with names in different languages.
- One possible solution: Yet another config option in which you specify the note type and the field. Not a fan of this one, because the add-on has already so much functionality hidden behind optional config options which you have to fill out correctly to make the feature work. At this point I really prefer stuff that works 'out of the box'.
- Another option: display some small dialogue which asks for the field where the text should be send to. Now this doesn't seem like a good solution at first, because with the extra click it is not really an improvement in speed over
CTRL+C->CTRL+V. But the reader could remember the chosen field for the currently active note type, and when you click the button the next time, the field is selected without prompting.
paraoxy
Hi. Thanks for the amazing features in this addon, but can you add a feature where you can highligh text in a pdf and then press a button or a key shortcut where you can add this text to the front of a card or the back, just the selected text with no algorithm for looking for a sentence and where that sentence ends, only the selected text, and maybe add a small setting if we desire to send it to front or back of card (default = back).
I know that a similar feature exists as cloze cards, but the problems in using it for my "basic cards" purpose is that:
1- The way generating clozes works is by looking for a sentence, and most of my PDF files text(lecturer slides) isn't organized in sentences like those in textbooks, mostly they're disorganized text (bullet points) with no fullstops and so , hence the text generated will be messed up either because of containing extra text from the slide, or probably no text at all. ( i don't think so this is a bug, it's probably because your addon is finally compatible with organized texts where it's capable of recognizing sentences) 2- it will take time for to remove the cloze format for every card, for the user to use it in basic card type.
hope so it's a feature that's easy & fast to add. Can you please consider adding it in the next update? it will save a lot of time for me and for other users.
Thanks