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Old 06-29-2020, 12:49 PM   #1
droopy
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Kobo shouldn't delete an annotation when you tap the X on the upper-right corner.

1. I highlight some text.
2. In the context menu that pops up, I tap the second option in the list: "Add Note".
3. I then finger-type in my note.
4. I tap Save on the lower-right.
5. I'm taken back to the book's text.

Later on, I may be interested in reviewing what I had written. So I:
6. Long-tap anywhere in the gray (highlighted) section.
7. A context menu pops up, but this time, the second option is "Edit Note". I select that.
8. I read what I wrote. Since I don't make any changes to my note, I don't see the need to tap "Save", so I tap the X at the upper-right corner of the Kobo.

What happens:
The note is deleted!

What I expect:
I expect to return to the book's text without the note being deleted or changed.

Why I expect this:
In Windows/Linux/Mac, when you click/tap the X in the upper right (or upper-left) of the window, the assumption is that you are closing the window/program, not that you are deleting/erasing your work.

Let's say you open up a text file in Win/Linux/Mac, you read the text there. After you read it, you click the X button on the upper right of the text-editor program. I think all of us know that clicking X just means the text editor is closed down (exited). We know that clicking X doesn't mean that the text file you were just reading has been deleted.

I wish Kobo developers were mindful of what an X on the upper-right of a program/screen does in many other computing contexts.
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