Bad side of Highlights

xnman · 2025-01-04T12:30:08+00:00

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I don't use Hightlights normally. I do Highlight in my bible or a commentary as a marker as to where I am or I left off in studying something. Then I erase the highlight when I study on and remark when I stop again. I thought by using the "circle with slash" ( see picture #1) that it would delete the highlight and thus I would not have a bunch of highlights. but such is not the case. Today, I happened to look at Highlights, and I have a highlight for every place I've started or stopped, literally a Hugh bunch of them. They were not erased. I have to manually go in and delete each one of them (there is no way to delete multiple highlights that I can find). It seems that all the circle with slash does is unhighlight the text but does not erase the highlight in Notes.

I'll admit, I don't use Highlights that much so what have I overlooked?

Thanks

Edit: Upon further investigation, it looks like that if I do use the "circle with slash" (see above picture) then what it does is erase the highlight off the text, but keeps the highlight in Notes and it becomes an empty highlight. (see picture below).

This just does not seem like "kosher" behavior to me. But I've probably overlooked something. I do that sometimes… 😎

Edit: I spent over 2 hours deleting all the empty highlights. Good grief!!!

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DMB

That looks similar to the problem in MultiText (buggy delete).

MJ. Smith

To delete multiple highlights, I use the Notes tool.

xnman

Thanks. As for me, as for now, I won't use Highlights as I think they are too buggy as I have illustrated above.

Thomas Glen Leo

To delete the highlight so the "note" disappears as well, highlight (as in click and drag over) the highlighted text you wish to unhighlight, and then tap the letter "r" (lower case, no quotes) and the text will be cleared of highlights, underlines, etc. - and the associated note(s) disappear(s). I too was surprised to find that the grey circle with a slash in it unhighlights and leaves an empty note. Clicking on "r" does what you want.

To delete multiple notes, click on one (all the way to the left, where the icon or highlighted letter is normally, so you don't "go to" the anchored text), then, holding down the ctl key (in Windows - dunno if the command key does the same thing on a Mac, as I am of the Windows denomination), click on additional notes same way, then drag one to the trash can icon at the bottom of the notes panel. The number of notes you are deleting should appear in a little circle with the icon or whatever you're dragging.