Is there any way to easily highlight the text of html articles in tiddlywiki?

[kat]

I am trying to use TiddlyWiki to replace Evernote as a way of archiving web articles to read later. I am mostly just copying the html directly into a tiddler, or using tiddlyclip.

I usually add highlights to articles as I read them in Evernote, is there any convenient way to do this in TiddlyWiki?

Thanks for your help.

[Mark S.]

I believe you can use the visual editor: http://bjtools.tiddlyspot.com/#VisualEditor

to edit HTML.

[kat]

I had looked at that but unfortunately it doesn't really help me. I still have to edit the tiddler and then scroll down to the point in the article I was at everytime I want to make a highlight.

Ideally I need to be able to just select/highlight the text directly as I am reading.

[TonyM]

Kat,

A recent discussion had this idea and a solution for images and sketching over. But anything could be designed.

You may find describing the feature you want, rather than assuming people know what One Note Highlighting is. The fact is to my understanding that highlighting in one note is in edit mode, you still have to edit the [note] and then scroll down to the point in the article and the visual editor Mark pointed to allows this WISYWIG editing. It uses a ckeditor and needs some locally installed support software, from memory.

In tiddlywikis (text) edit mode you can highlight text and press a Editor Tool bar button to apply highlighting, and you can use preview mode to have the edit window and the preview window open at one time. Im am not sure if this is default or a plugin, if you are interested I will look for it.

Your request has given me an idea that a review mode would be nice where you read Tiddlers in view template and can only apply simple highlights and comments to the underlying tiddler. I use FoxIt reader for PDF annotation and could see value designing something similar, although there are technical challenges.

Regards

Tony

[kat]

Sorry I should have been more specific. I want to be able to highlight text as I am reading and the add a color highlight with a single click/shortcut. I use this to indicate which parts of the text I have extracted and turned into Anki flashcards in case I re-read in the future. I am also open to any alternative ways to mark text.

I have found having both edit mode and the preview to be pretty inconvenient for reading as the text often doesn't match up very well.

I think I can get a very ugly version of what I want with AutoHotkey. Is there a shortcut to edit the tiddler you are currently 'focused on'? 

This wiki seems to work with F2, but I think that is a custom shortcut and I don't understand how to set those up.

[Birthe C]

Hi Kat,

In edit mode, highlight using shortcut http://skplugins.tiddlyspot.com/#Color

The wiki you linked to is using $:/plugins/nome/KbShortcuts in this plugin you will find the tiddler $:/config/GlobalShortcuts. 

Birthe

[kat]

Thanks!

[Mohammad]

One very simple way is the mark tag after Mark s :-)

<mark> text goes here </mark>

You can also use shiraz plugin of course the powerful solution is given by Birthe in his post.

--Mohammad 

[TonyM]

Kat is asking for annotation of rendered content. With the highlights applied to the underlying content. This makes a lot of sense since the rendered version it the easier to read.

However Kat is possibly not aware of the complexity involved, it is worth looking to solving this, I expect a new mechanisium is required perhaps based on previews or come at this review and annotation of rendered content another way.

Regards
Tont