Searching for books with annotations

[ReaderOfBooks1]

Hey all,

I've been playing around with the experimental "Annotations" import feature. Great to see it added, it seems to be working so far.

What I am trying to accomplish is to figure out how to search for books where the annotations have been imported. Example syntax:

Chapter 8: 5
Highlight
Chapter progress: 65.62%
Highlight:


I am trying to use a regex to find this, but am struggling. I'm either getting false positives or the regex returns nothing. I am aware it is most likely an error on my part, and would appreciate any help from the community.

Works with false positives: comment:"Highlight" and comment:"~Highlight\s"
Example that doesn't work: comment:"~^Highlight\s$(?m)"

What I am trying to get based on the above syntax that doesn't seem to work (pseudocode): comment"[use regex][match start of line][match Highlight][match trailing whitespace][match end of line][use mode to match start and end of line]"

[theducks]

Are you using the Annotations plugin (felt marker icon)?
It has a Find Annotations menu item.

[ReaderOfBooks1]

Originally Posted by theducks

Are you using the Annotations plugin (felt marker icon)?
It has a Find Annotations menu item.

I included the answer in my initial post, I am using the experimental annotations import feature included in Calibre (https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html). I am exploring it because the annotations plug-in seems to be broken in Calibre 8.x and no longer seems to have a maintainer.: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ght=annotation I also would prefer to use native Calibre features rather than plug-ins where possible.

Any inputs on my original inquiry about about using regex search on specific data in the comments column would be greatly appreciated.

[theducks]

Sorry, I missed that .

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ReaderOfBooks1

Hey all,

I've been playing around with the experimental "Annotations" import feature. Great to see it added, it seems to be working so far.

What I am trying to accomplish is to figure out how to search for books where the annotations have been imported. Example syntax:

Chapter 8: 5
Highlight
Chapter progress: 65.62%
Highlight:


I am trying to use a regex to find this, but am struggling. I'm either getting false positives or the regex returns nothing. I am aware it is most likely an error on my part, and would appreciate any help from the community.

Works with false positives: comment:"Highlight" and comment:"~Highlight\s"
Example that doesn't work: comment:"~^Highlight\s$(?m)"

What I am trying to get based on the above syntax that doesn't seem to work (pseudocode): comment"[use regex][match start of line][match Highlight][match trailing whitespace][match end of line][use mode to match start and end of line]"

AFAIK Annotations are not stored in the 'comments' table, they're stored in the 'annotations' table which can be viewed in the Annotations browser which has a Find feature:



You need to add Browse annotations to a toolbar/menu or use a keyboard shortcut (default is 'B') to pop that dialogue box.

And, AFAICT 'annotations' are not available to the Book list search feature:



BR