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Originally Posted by incumbent
Sending things into DayOne all the time is a bit fiddly for me.
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Ah, you use Day One for syncing annotations? That hasn't occurred to me, even though I'm a heavy Day One user (and I wouldn't know how to begin using Day One that way, to be honest).
I do use Day One in conjunction with Marvin, heavy-handedly, to supply the missing "audio annotations" functionality in Marvin. What I often do is, I highlight a passage in Marvin, then I launch the superb DropVox voice-memo app, I dictate the annotation there, it gets automatically submitted from DropVox to Dropbox, and
there, an IFTTT recipe notices the newly arrived MP3 recording,
and submits the link for downloading it as a new Day One entry back to my reading device. Then, from the Day One entry, I can (optionally) copy the link to the recording and paste it into Marvin's text-only annotations window.
That's quite a
gigantic run-around, isn't it? A cooperation of 5 different pieces of software (Marvin -> DropVox -> Dropbox -> IFTTT -> Day One -> Marvin) is needed just to record an audio annotation in Marvin... But despite it being a run-around, I often do this, because I find audio annotations invaluable. Yeah, when you only need to jot down a word or two as an annotation, then typing the note (or scribbling it free-hand) will do... but if a rather
complex idea occurs to you as your annotation (and I immensely enjoy "arguing back and forth" with my favorite writers, who are mostly dead) – then it really becomes a
lot more efficient (despite the gigantic run-around) to capture that annotation as an audio-note (in future, perhaps even as a selfie video-note), instead of a text-based annotation.
The good news is, Kris has confirmed he is considering the implementation of both free-hand (scribbled) annotations
and of audio annotations in Marvin, so perhaps making annotations will become a lot easier in future in Marvin.
Other than that, I agree with you:
annotations syncing is the no. 1 missing feature in Marvin, and has been from the start. And Kris knows that, because we've been requesting it from him for 5 years or so. And so, there is hope.
