Notices

I have noticed that note-pad type apps save their files as an .htm file.

This got me thinking. Would it be possible to integrate a note-taking app into an e-reader app with linkable functionality?

What I would like to be able to do is, highlight text, open a note-taking app, make my notes, and add them as a linked, clickable connection to the highlighted text.

The text that has been "linked-to-notes" could demonstrate its "linked-ness" with a different color font, perhaps?

Ideally this would work both ways - by opening up the notes, a click could open the e-reader and turn to the page that the notes are linked to.

This would be just like making notes in the margins of a book as I read! It's one of the things I miss when reading electronic texts.

This all sounds so easy to me. Could one of you programmers let me know if this is possible to do, and if so, how difficult? It would be a wonderful addition to any e-reader for many people, I'm sure. Thanks for reading!

Try Xournal. It allows opening a PDF and annotating it.

Thought it's not the best solution as it saves annotations not as text but as a separate image layer.

PDFs support annotations natively, though, there's no linux/maemo program with support for them. There's some discussion about adding PDF native annotation in Evince (see http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations) though no code has yet been merged to the main branch.

PDF is not my e-book format of choice (although some texts are only available in that format, I know). I would rather have the full range of formats available to typical e-readers available for the feature I desctibe - .txt, .htm, etc. Thanks for the heads up, though, I will certainly check that out for the books I have as PDF.