Option to combine ToC and Highlights lists in right panel ?

[Potjoe-97]

Hi all !

I've been thinking about Highlights panel integration since it arrived in the app a few versions ago. I was not really convinced by the display, at least considering my own use case. I do use a lot of accentuations in my documents, sometimes for a single word. Thus, the displayed list can be very long and unsorted, which do not make me want to read it ever again. How to make it more useful ? The main issue is that the list is not structured in any way. So I thought : how to better structure it ? And it blew my mind : the best structuration could be the Table of Content.

I think it could be great to have an option to merge TOC & Highlight panel together, allowing to structure highlights with the titles used in the document. Then, the hightlights could benefit from being contextualized, and not just a list of formatted texts. Indeed, it would help to understand them and to exploit them later when having a glance at the note. "Oh ok, here are the main sections of the note, and inside these sections, here are the highlighted passages..."

It could result in something like this :

Toc and Highlights combined

1. Meteo in Paris

• The climate is temperate
• Cloudy
• Cold winter

2. Meteo in Rio

• The climate is tropical
• Sunny
• Hot winter

3. And why not a third one

Instead of current layout :

Toc

1. Meteo in Paris

2. Meteo in Rio

3. And why not a third one

Highlights

• The climate is temperate
• Cloudy
• Cold winter
• The climate is tropical
• Sunny
• Hot winter

[eliandoran]

Conceptually it's not a bad idea, we'll see if more people prefer this approach.
Having an option to choose between the two is a no go, we have enough complexity as-is.

[Potjoe-97]

I was suggesting it as an option to open the discussion on the matter. But even regarding a default behaviour replacement, I think it'll be a improvement over the current highlights feature. Maybe I'm missing something, I don't see the use cases of the current implementation. Thanks for your feedback !

[Potjoe-97]

The main drawback is a less user-friendly overview of the TOC, since it'll be full of accentuations. But if highlights could still be disabled in settings, it'll make it more versatile. Just thinking loudly.