Organize highlights by appearance order instead of creation date

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

list item a
list item b
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.

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.

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! :(

Benjamin L. Stewart

January 04, 2020 15:32

This is a huge oversight... not being able to sort highlights and sources. Hope this gets addressed in short order.

Organize highlights by appearance order instead of creation date

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