Feature Request: Public Display of Quotes and Notes

[geomlattice]

Just found this project and love it so far. Just spun up the container and love how the search function works. Great work overall.

A feature I would really want from a service like this is the ability to display the quotes and comments on books as a publically shareable page. There should likely be a toggle button for unlisting the annotations. I could perhaps implement this.

This seems like perhaps the kind of thing that would not need any new backend CRUD type logic, and would just be frontend work. I will skim through the code here accordingly and look out for where the injection point for this feature could be.

[geomlattice]

Looking through the docs and I see the phrase 'your private notes'. I am imagining, perhaps, an option to enable a social public note-sharing experience. Maybe this could be integrated into the fediverse with fedify?

EDIT: Ah, the old wisdom of Read the ******* Manual:

Share to Mastodon

BookLogr has a Mastodon integration that will allow BookLogr to share events onto your Mastodon profile when they happen in realtime. For example when finishing a book, BookLogr will automatically toot out your progress.

Can this toot the quotes in real time?

[geomlattice]

Testdriving the feature that is already there; wonder what 'public' here entails:

[geomlattice]

Not sure if it is antithetical to the design philosophy here, but I am proposing putting a tab/option here that links to a quotes index showing books with existing annotations. Those cards then point to standalone quote pages (can filter for single profile or all profiles)

[Mozzo1000]

Hi @geomlattice,
Thank you for the kind words and I am glad you appreciate this project. I will try and answer everything in the best of my abilities.

So we already have public notes/quotes. It has two parts to it, first you can set your profile page to public, this will allow any unauthenticated user with the link to your profile see what you have read. In the demo instance this can be seen here: https://demo.booklogr.app/profile/demo

Then on top of the public profile you can select specific notes/quotes to be public, as you have seen

A note icon will then be visible on the book items on the public page and anyone can click on it and read the note.

(the note icon is the icon with a 1 next to it)

[..] an option to enable a social public note-sharing experience. Maybe this could be integrated into the fediverse with fedify?

This project is not focusing on being a social media platform, there are other social book applications like BookWyrm that integrate with the fediverse much better than this project ever can be. With that said, BookLogrs focus when it comes to social interaction is more of sending out updates/information to the fediverse with the Share to Mastodon feature.

Can this toot the quotes in real time?

At the moment no but the base is there to improve upon so It can also send out a mastodon post when a quote is created. This should be a separate issue.

[..] display the quotes and comments on books as a publically shareable page.

Do you mind expanding on this idea? How do you imagine that would look like?

[..] putting a tab/option here that links to a quotes index showing books with existing annotations

If the aim is to have a separate page with just the notes/quotes in a list or similar without having to first go through every book to find the quotes/notes I would say that it would be better to have a link in the navigation menu instead of in the library navigation.
Example mockup to illustrate:

[geomlattice]

Thanks for your thoughtful and thorough feedback! Responding in reverse:

• The example mockup is a great shift of the idea. I agree that this makes more sense than my proposed placement
• For the shareable page, I am essentially imagining a microblogging/mastodon-like feed of the quotes/comments
• tooting quotes in real time is a separate issue: this makes sense
• I tried running Bookwyrm before:
  • I had troubles hosting it
  • the demo for bookwyrm seemed lackluster, maybe I missed something
• I didn't notice a note icon like that existed. very nice: this is essentially what I was thinking except I suppose it is more of a modal display than single page.

Given everything you've said, it seems like most of what I am looking for is here already. The only shifts/tweaks I may wish to make is to add a notes feed for all notes/comments created in a profile across all books, and then an option to toot as one quotes, so that feed propagates into the fediverse. However, I really could just work with everything as offered and be quite happy, and the enhancement I propose may not actually be that impactful.

Once again: amazing work. Thanks a ton! Cheers.

[Mozzo1000]

I am not entirely happy with the design but this is what i have for the profile notes page at the moment

[geomlattice]

Looks nice!