New user here (Roam refugee). This is an fantastic plugin, thank you so much!!
Just wanted to share my use case and feature suggestion.
When I’m reading, I am usually reacting to the text on the go. So, when I highlight, I immediately want to write down my thoughts or arguments before moving on. If I wait until I’ve done all highlights and extracted, then I’ve forgotten all that juicy stuff.
So, my solution now is this: after highlighting a section of text, I add in a commented note just before the highlight wrapping mark. e.g.
==This is the author's highly provocative sentence.%%This is my immediate take on it.%%==
This way, once the highlights are exported, I have a series of highlights with my notes appended (snuck in?). Also, since my annotations are comments in the accepted Obsidian format, they don’t show if the original text is exported/viewed.
This in itself is enough, but I’ve also experimented with a few global text replacements on the resulting output to separate out my notes, i.e. removing the closing %% and replacing the leading %% with a newline-indent-bullet, so I get an extracted highlight like so:
- This is the author's highly provocative sentence.
- This is my immediate take on it.
It would be pretty cool if the plugin could do this for me, or allow me to specify opening and closing text strings to identify my notes (i.e. just put them on a new line after the highlight and let me specify text strings to replace the leading %% and closing %%). It might even be useful to be able to put the comment above the highlight, so that the highlight acts more as a kind of reference for the comment. e.g.
- This is my take.
- This is the author's highly provocative sentence.
In any case, thank you for your amazing work!