Comment by smeej
2 years ago
I love KOReader and also strongly prefer reading on my ereader (really an eInk Android tablet), but I've never found a great way to get the annotations and highlights out of KOReader and into my PKM, Logseq, where I could actually make good use of them. Logseq works with markdown files, so it doesn't have to be anything very sophisticated in terms of export format.
I recently reached out to the team behind Omnivore, which is a read-it-later app that does export well to Logseq, to see if they could add a pagination function to the app so I could use their app that way instead of scrolling, but being able to save websites in epub format, read them in KOReader, and export the notes would be a great alternative!
What are you using to access these notes over time?
Ha, what a coincidence! I use Logseq as well. And ... yeah. I don't really do anything with the KOReader highlights, which I know wastes a lot of potential.
I don't really feel like Logseq would be the right place to put annotations - the surrounding text is hugely important in my case.
For annotating web pages I also use hypothes.is, which also has its issues with reviewing past highlights (but does seem to have a data format conducive to importing from different sources).
It would be great to be able to pull all this stuff into an application specifically made for research - perhaps Zotero.
But I haven't really found any workflow that vibes with me.
I really love the way Logseq for desktop handles PDFs. That's the gold standard for me. I can highlight in four colors and add annotations wherever I want, and they're automatically pulled over into individual note blocks, which I can edit and tag alongside the doc. If I click one such note on the future, it opens the PDF and shows it to me in context.
But PDF annotation doesn't work in the mobile app. Omnivore is the closest to similar functionality for web articles that I've used so far, but scrolling vs. turning pages makes a big difference on the ereader's screen.
I actually used Calibre to convert all my epub books into PDF, and I try to read them on a convertible HP tablet/laptop I coerced into running Linux, which I can highlight on with a compatible pen, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.