Hello, Kobo Developers
Aspiring noob here (with programming experience) :)
I noticed that around these forums the e-reader experience on Kobos is very much discussed, and there are many robust and lauded tools for that, from KOReader to Plato etc.
But what about the e-note experience?
I recently got my Elipsa and am very content with it thus far. The Advanced Notes work well, and the large screen is very suitable for textbooks and other large-format PDFs and such. But I steel feel it lacking in certain respects that to the unassuming eye would seem easily fixable. For instance (I will be assuming usage of the Stylus here):
Alas, my reason for this post is as following, and forgive the (quasi-intentional) tirade of questions, they're meant to be seen as an open-ended list of noob questions :)
How would someone with reasonable programming experience go about developing a mod such as this? Is the MyScript functionality present in the Advanced Notes available to be employed elsewhere in the system? Can Nickel be modded into this? Will NickelMenu be of use? Would KOReader or Plato support functionality such as this (I've noticed a few opened and ignored Issues raised on their githubs regarding this)? Where does one find the necessary resources to get oneself bootstrapped into developing features such as this (e.g. figuring out how the Stylus works, or the
Aspiring noob here (with programming experience) :)
I noticed that around these forums the e-reader experience on Kobos is very much discussed, and there are many robust and lauded tools for that, from KOReader to Plato etc.
But what about the e-note experience?
I recently got my Elipsa and am very content with it thus far. The Advanced Notes work well, and the large screen is very suitable for textbooks and other large-format PDFs and such. But I steel feel it lacking in certain respects that to the unassuming eye would seem easily fixable. For instance (I will be assuming usage of the Stylus here):
- Adding a note to a text selection (in Epubs and Kepubs) still requires the virtual keyboard. It would be nice if we could employ the MyScript capabilities already present in the Advanced Notes, or even a subset of them, or heck, even the normal Basic note system, in order to take those notes instead of having to type them out letter by letter.
- PDFs don't even support adding notes except for directly onto the document. It would be nice if the "Add note" functionality from above could be added to text that was highlighted.
- Epubs and Kepubs already support freeform line annotations over the page, but not freeform highlighting, only "word-by-word" highlighting (what's the correct term for that, anyway?). When reflowed with different font settings, Kobo's solution to these freeform line overlays was to hide them behind some brackets around the textblock that was originally there.
- "word-by-word" highlights are not erasable through the Stylus erase button, even though they are creatable that way (but this would be a moot point if we could have the freeform highlights of the PDFs onto which to keep the "Add Note" context menu option already present for the "wbw" highlights)
Alas, my reason for this post is as following, and forgive the (quasi-intentional) tirade of questions, they're meant to be seen as an open-ended list of noob questions :)
How would someone with reasonable programming experience go about developing a mod such as this? Is the MyScript functionality present in the Advanced Notes available to be employed elsewhere in the system? Can Nickel be modded into this? Will NickelMenu be of use? Would KOReader or Plato support functionality such as this (I've noticed a few opened and ignored Issues raised on their githubs regarding this)? Where does one find the necessary resources to get oneself bootstrapped into developing features such as this (e.g. figuring out how the Stylus works, or the