Organize highlights by appearance order instead of creation date

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Jo S

• August 15, 2019 11:10
• Edited

if I go back to a highlighted article and add more highlights, the new highlights show up chronologically in LINER instead of by order of appearance inside the text.

For example, I initially highlight 2 key sentences in a paragraph. Then I go back and highlight the paragraph header that appears before those key sentences in the text. 

In Liner, I will see this highlight order: 

• Key Sentence 1   (highlight created first)
• Key Sentence 2   (highlight created second)
• Paragraph header          (highlight created last)

But I want to be able to see it like this:

• Paragraph header         (highlight appears 1st in text)
• Key Sentence 1  (highlight appears 2nd in text)
• Key Sentence 2  (highlight appears 3rd in text)

This chronological ordering makes highlights completely unusable whenever you go back to re-highlight an article.

Here's another use case to explain the issue. Say the middle of the article contains a list:

introduction

1. list item a
2. list item b
3. list item c

conclusion

Initially I highlight: list item a & conclusion. Then I re-read the text and highlight list item c, and the introduction.

In Liner I get this order:

• list item a
• conclusion
• list item c
• introduction

In practice, it makes the logic much harder to follow and sometimes unreadable.

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  Nola Garavaglia-McGann

  • October 22, 2019 08:58

  Do you know what the order is based on at the moment? I would prefer it to be chronological than completely random which is what it is at the moment. 

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  e mc

  • October 24, 2019 02:46

  100% agree with it being random right now... it's almost unusable and this tool has so much potential! :(

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