Make the Reader editable
Sankari Nair
We've been receiving mixed feedback on whether we should enable an edit mode for the Reader. We'd love your thoughts.
Our main concern is that it could create confusion between the Reader and the Notebook, and we feel that original content should remain untouched.
What do you think? Should the Reader support edits?
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nicole
Merged in a post:
Ability to create new graph connections with text in the Reader section of a card
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Jack H
Currently, when I want to make connections between my cards (manual or AI-powered), I have to use text in the Notebook section, which sometimes requires me to copy and paste text from Reader to Notebook. I'd like to be able to highlight text directly in the Reader view, and then click the ⚡ (lightning bolt) icon to make connections or maybe even have an option for the AI to parse the Reader text and do it for me. I feel like this would lead to a much richer graphing experience
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nicole
Hi Jack. I think this aligns with making the reader editable. So, I've merged your request with that request for now!
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Joe Barlow
There's a few fairly simple things that I feel would greatly improve the reader for me.
I'd like to be able to highlight text, or text within a PDF in the reader (and have these highlights saved), with the possible addition of the highlighted text featuring more prominently (or automatically being highlighted) within the AI summary.
I'd like to be be able to jump to a specific page in a PDF
I'd like the ability to adjust the proportion of the reader window compared to the rest of the screen so that a PDF can be zoomed without cropping. (even in full screen mode a pdf cannot be zoomed without cropping currently).
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schroell
The only reason why I would see benefit in being able to correct terms in the reader is to correct transcription errors which have been imported from YouTube or Spotify or wherever you get your transcriptions from. They tend to be not that accurate, and if those transcriptions are not accurate, errors will replicate into concise and extended summaries.
If this is not possible to be done, then whatever you do in the reader is then later on not replicated to the notebook where you have already done translations into concise or long summaries. I don't see too much of a benefit to be able to correct the reader directly.
The only other thing I can think of is that if there are errors in the reader as the reader's content is also considered by the chat AI going through all the cards (e.g. embedding models will vectorize wrong terms), it might happen that in some outputs using the generic chat AI you get wrong terms mixed with correct ones because they were not concistently corrected. But if this cannot be kept consistent between the reader and whatever output you have generated in concise or detailed summaries, I don't see a point to be able to correct the reader again.
In order to be able to easily correct things, we would need to have also a search and replace function, at least in the notebook or even in the reader if it's getting an editable interface. If transcription is wrong, the wrong terms are in general replicated to the notebook, and that's where you really want to correct them. If you have hundreds of instances of a wrong term, you need now to correct them and find them all manually.
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schroell
Another feature I'm really missing in the new notebook editing functions is "Find and Replace".
I've got the typical example again right now. The transcription is delivered by YouTube and it's wrong for a product name. Now of course the Concise Summary and Detailed Summaries are being generated with the same incorrect product name every time (which is important later on if you want to chat with AI. If in some cards product names are misspelled, the AI will have more difficulties to identify these as being identical to other correct written product names).
Instead of just correcting it once in the reader with
Find and Replace All
, then regenerating the Concise Summary and Detailed Summary, I'd have to go through the entire notebook and change all instances to the correct name manually. But even there I don't have Find and Replace!I'm honestly too lazy to do this by hand every time. And that's exactly the kind of task that in times where AI exists, we really shouldn't have to do manually anymore.
It is unfortunatly not an option to copy the whole Transcript to the Notebook for doing the correction as the Transcript stays wrong in the background and the summaries are made from Transcript and not from Notebook!
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schroell
I found another use case where it makes sense to make the Reader editable. I have a training video that I want to save with Recall, but unfortunately the website structure is so complicated that Recall can't manage to save the video or its transcript. However, there's a manual option to copy the transcript. I'd like to do that now and add the transcript to the created learning card for this YouTube training video. But I can only add it to the Notebook, which means I obviously can't use that part, a long transcript, to generate a Concise or Detail Summary. If I were able to save that part to the Reader, then regenerating the Concise Summary would also access that part.
Sankari Nair
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Edit transcript
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Dean Robinson
Some times the transcription get words or names wrong. For example: Tom Bilyeu is transcribed as Tom Bill. It would be helpful to go in and edit the transcript. I see it has problems with names (especially foreign or atypical names). For a more accurate summary, correct names and accurate spelling are very important. Ideally I would edit the transcript and regenerate the detailed summary.
Sankari Nair
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Possibility of editing the text in the Reader, namely creating connections/links for concepts or persons or entities, and including personal annotations
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Paulo Pina
Sankari Nair
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Editing the original youtube transcript
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xin.xu
Sometimes youtube transcripts are not accurate/correct due to errors in the auto transcription. Need to enable the editor in the 'reader' mode.
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Paul Ross
Main reason for Editable reader is to correct (mostly) obvious errors in the transcription.
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Antonio Garcia
I think that the reader should have the bare minimum of editing available to it. By that I mean the ability to highlight text and to add comments. Maybe if you add a highlight and comment feature you could have the AI be able to read those as well and it can tell you that you what you thought was important.
The ability to link highlights and comments made in the reader to your notes would be interesting as well. That way you don't have to go digging for your previous thoughts.
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Boudewijn Bertsch
I don't need the reader to be editable. But if you do it, I would create a window like: Are you sure you want to edit the source text? I would like to be able to easily copy the Reader with a simple copy icon and I would like to be able to select text and then add a comment that could appear in the notebook with a link back.
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