BUG: change of annotation icon/style often freezes or crashes L8

Francis said:

Often, when I do, L8 lags and sometimes even crashes. 

Please upload your logs when it crashes, this will help us try to determine what is happening.

Hi Francis,

I think we are thinking in different directions, but I think I might have a solution/workflow that you might want to try. It does require using two separate routes for getting notes into a notebook. You cannot specify a specific note indicator to be used in a specified notebook, but I think this can accomplish the same end result.

There are a few steps, but part of them are set up and will not need to be repeated.

Francis said:

Bible notes (= my Bible commentary)

Francis said:

For the first I use yellow square icons attached to the reference with no highlighting.

For your "Bible notes (= my Bible commentary)" notes:

1. Select the text, right-click and select Reference
2. Choose Take a note > Bible notes (= my Bible commentary)
3. Set your Note Indicator to use the Yellow Square (this should now use the yellow square each time)
4. Set your Highlight Style to None

When you take subsequent Bible Notes you can use Step 1 and Step 2 so that you can target that notebook, but it should automatically use the Yellow Square indicator.

The Notes Tool uses your last used settings (unless you are using a highlighting style from a palette assigned to a specific notebook that will use only the highlighting style). You will need to retarget your notebook and set the note indicator if you have used a different style the last time you used notes.

Francis said:

Articles/Books Notes (= my responses, observations in other resources)

Francis said:

For the second I use light green square icons with blue underlining of the text.

For your "Articles/Books Notes (= my responses, observations in other resources)" notes:

1. Create the palette with the blue underline style and assign it to your Articles/Books Notes (= my responses, observations in other resources) notebook
2. Select the text you want to annotate
3. Apply the highlighting style using either the Highlighting Tool or Selection Menu (this will assign it to your second notebook with only the blue underline style)
4. When you are done creating your notes for that notebook during that session select all of the notes you created in the notebook and set the Green Square indicator using the bulk editing option.

You can then use Step 2 and Step 3 to take notes in your Articles/Books Notes (= my responses, observations in other resources) notebook. 

I hope this might be helpful.

Philana