hadynz / obsidian-kindle-plugin

Sync your Kindle notes and highlights directly into your Obsidian vault
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An option to sort notes by location instead of just chronologically #201

Open mariojoshua opened 1 year ago

mariojoshua commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. So generally when the import happens, the highlights are split and a new markdown is created for the book title, and the highlights of that book are pasted there in the order it was in the MyClippings file(chronologically) would it be possible to sort it based on location instead.

Sometimes when Im re-reading a book I make new highlights, which I would prefer if it came based on the location in the book, rather than at the end, depending on the time I Highlighted it. Describe the solution you'd like An option to sort it at the time of import chronologically or by location.

Describe alternatives you've considered Kindle Clippings Formatter - this is something I've made using excel and VBA, which allows you to sort the data however you want, its not elegant, but it does its job

Additional context I'm Attaching a screen short for the location metadata and how its currently sorted chronologically or based on the time when it was highlighted Screenshot 2022-09-12 at 2 03 09 PM

Last but not least, Thanks for taking the time to develop this, it's a free and efficient service unlike the paid alternatives and works great.

hadynz commented 1 year ago

Thanks for creating this issue. I agree this is an important feature - or even bug that you have raised.

Will add it to the backlog to update the plugin to default to sorting clippings by location always with some sensible fallbacks (some clippings do not have locations and pages).