Highlight-type annotations without note text contents all show up as "No Comment" in sidebar, hard to distinguish
When you highlight a bunch of texts throughout a document, and later open the annotations sidebar, with current Papers nightly, you see this kind of representation:
You'd think these are the answers of a politician being RFC'ed about a scandal ;)
It is not immediately clear that those are commentless highlights.
Some preliminary thoughts:
- It might be more useful to show something like
🟡 Highlighted text: %s
or something like that, to make it easier to know that 1) it's a highlight 2) what the highlight is? But if the highlight has a comment inside it, then show it normally (i.e. without the "Highlighted text: " prefix. - It would also be tremendously useful to me if there were connector lines between the annotations sidebar's items and their position on the page canvas (because it's hard to know what is what when there are tons of highlight-closed-by-default annotations on a page), but I don't know how doable that is technically.
I'm casually filing this UX problem / RFC here, for consideration by @aday and @bertob as part of this Design Initiative and this Design app-mockups ticket.
Edited by Jeff Fortin