I just downloaded Tropy and I found it to be very useful. That said, the lack of item-level notes is a real challenge. As a historian I work with documents that sometimes 50 pages long and I’d like to annotate or summarise them in one place. Now, in order to access and copy my summary, I have to go to 50 different notes - which defeats the purpose.
I saw this question has been raised in the past and you said that it could be addressed in future iterations. Is this something that will be integrated soon?
It’s on our roadmap, but I can’t say when it will be ready.
Can I ask you how you would expect to work with the item-level note? You want to select the note and then that note should always stay visible in the notepad no matter which photo is active, yes? To switch to a photo’s note (if any) you’d have to select it manually?
Thank you for your quick response and for all your support!
Yes, I imagined a single and fixed editing pane as I scroll through the images. If that’s not possible, it would be great if I can combine the notes on the different images into one note (rather than doing it manually).
It’s definitely useful for the annotated text to correspond to a specific image, and it would be great to retain image-specific-notes, what I find challenging is that these notes can’t be made or seen in continuous scroll. Does that make sense?
Yes, it makes perfect sense. We’re aware of the need for item-level notes (or, alternatively, a single contiguous view of all an item’s notes) – we just try to collect more ideas or usage scenarios from interested users, because there are some tricky UI questions which come into play here. Thanks for your input!
Hi there, I just wanted to follow up on this conversation and say that it would be really useful to have the ability to create standalone notes, like in Zotero. I have a lot of archive photos from many different manuscript books. It would be really useful to be able to pin a summary note with information about the book and collection within the project itself, rather than keeping this information in Zotero and using both programs side-by-side.
While experienced with archival data bases, I am rather new to Tropy. I love it! One of the features I am missing is an annotation page for the whole item. As far as I understand, this has not yet been implemented, has it? I may be missing something, though.
I want to characterize an item in a general way, summarizing what the item (aka file in my case) is about, what my thoughts are, and to be able to scan that quickly when coming back to the file of various files of interest. I don’t want this in the metadata (to keep metadata clear and for reasons of readability). At this point, I am using the item’s first page as a workaround which sometimes is fine (if it is a scanned cover page) but can be confusing (if it is already a letter etc.).
We started work on adding item-level notes, but to make it work the way we want it to, it requires some underlying changes to the UI which we haven’t been able to implement yet. So, you’re not missing anything, item-level notes are not supported at the moment, it’s on our roadmap but blocked by other features we want to launch first.