Giddy at an experimental new feature in Pages: add annotations and marginalia in digital ink and they're anchored to the associated text regions. Textual edits preserve your marks! I'd love this kind of modality-crossing interaction in my reading software.
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Digital ink is so much more expressive than the impoverished "highlight / add note" interactions available in all e-readers. Many let you draw on documents (though not books), but I've never seen any connect those scribbles meaningfully to the underlying text.
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At work, we've already used this kind of ink markup in two neat ways:
1. Annotating quoted text inline with connections to the quoting document's line of reasoning (can't share example unfortunately).
2. Deliberately lo-fi metacommentary layer (e.g. see image)
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I see the quote in the gif is very relevant, even if hard to read while it’s being edited.
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Pretty cool. My only question is the most basic. How does the range of string for say dynamic discipline know it’s right if dynamic discipline is in the string multiple times. Other than that I think I get how all of this works and yes it is a cool feature
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I expect it anchors to index ranges and defines mutations which preserves those anchors, as opposed to anchoring to matched substrings.
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