FR: Several 'Bookmarks' Page Enhancements

[ryanwwest]

I find the Bookmarks page (under top-left icon -> Bookmarks) very useful, which displays all highlights, notes, and bookmarks a user has made for a document. After using it for over a year I have a few ideas on how to improve it.

1. Sortable Bookmarks page. I had a document recently that I annotated 3 months ago and reread today and made new annotations. I'd like to see which highlights/notes were from which dates, but the list is currently sorted by reverse page order, not annotation date. It would be nice to sort by page number (forward and reverse) as well as annotation add date (forward and reverse). I saw some option that you don't necessarily need to date your annotations—these could fall at the beginning or end of the sort. Any other sort methods?
2. Make highlight/note timestamp easier to find. Long pressing an item shows all of the details including timestamp, which is also shown in the results if the highlight/note isn't too long and truncated. It would be nice to see this detail more easily. If this is the only additional detail you can see from viewing an item in the Bookmarks page vs. seeing it in the main viewer, then I wonder if we could show the date directly when tapping a highlight in the viewer (Maybe below the Delete/Style/Add note or Delete highlight/Edit highlight) menu. At first I thought there should be a direct link to the Bookmarks page single item details popup, but now I think that only adds timestamp.
3. Consider renaming 'Bookmarks' page to 'Annotations' page? Lots of recently-merged PRs like Annotations, part 1 #11563 have been to deduplicate bookmarks and highlights, but the UI naming is still a little confusing. I like how highlights, notes, and actual bookmarks are all in the list, but newcomers may not realize that highlights and notes are here. Maybe the same for 'bookmark browsing mode' and related menu items.

Note that I may implement some of these myself when I can dedicate some time, but that may not happen for a long time so I wanted to share as a way to track ideas, get feedback, and potentially let others with interest beat me to it if enough people support any idea.

[hius07]

Sorting by datetime is in the backlog.

[Commodore64user]

I like the idea of renaming bookmarks to annotations, i think bookmarks should be used in the menus to mean the "dog ear" thingy and annotations to the collective of highlights, notes and book-markings.

One more thing i would add is making the icon a bit bigger (dog ear when you tap on top right corner), it can be quite hard to see sometimes.

[jonnyl2]

I kind of like "Bookmark" as an umbrella term. Every highlight, note, or "dog ear" is a mark in the book, so to speak.

Whereas an annotation is more specific. Taking a physical book as an analogy, I'd consider a page with written notes in the margin (or sketches perhaps) annotated. Just underlined or highlighted sections alone I wouldn't consider 'annotated.' But that is debatable I guess. A page with a flappy bookmark in it or a creased corner (ouch!) alone is definitely not annotated.

Perhaps page bookmarks (dog ears) could be renamed to 'saved pages'. So instead of adding a bookmark, we're just saving a page. This could mitigate some of the confusion.

I wouldn't mind calling "Notes" "Annotations" though. Since each Note is linked to a highlighted section, the word "annotation" is more fitting IMO. "Notes" feels more loose; not really bound to a specific text, but more like a scratch paper kind of thing. (Like on a sticky note or loose paper in the book or on a separate notepad.)