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On several cases, I've made a highlight only to realize that I needed a different highlight (and/or note). It may be the case that some of these are automatically avoided, but it'd be nice to add a tool to identify cases like this and offer some easy resolutions. This will probably need to complement #5 since the correction could occur at other times.

Mendeley is a great way to track references. Kindle has good enough PDF support... so highlights can be moved to Evernote (or another target) with relative ease. By the time the clippings find their way into a final system (Word? Scrivener?), there's a manual process to restore these connections.

It would be nice if there were some way to attach a Mendeley ID to an import source so patterns (especially the DaleyKlippings Evernote exporter) could store the metadata.

While dates in the CSV file don't have month or day of week names, they always export in a US format.

The tool's genesis was Kindle Clippings and it does a good job of moving clippings to tools like Evernote. The addition of CSV import/export further expands the potential of the tool. If Scrivener supported metadata Import, I'd want to be able to convert from Evernote to Scrivener.

This leads to two questions:

• Is this the right tool for other data mapping activities or is there a more generic tool that could be used (perhaps integrated)?
• What changes would be necessary?
  • We'd need to support an expanded set of fields including Evernote's Tags.
  • It might make sense to provide more explicit support for XML (e.g. XPath) and/or JSON (JSONpath) rather than hacking it into the Regex matcher?

The current codebase stores both the data and the edit mode inside the Clippings data structure. This is completely unnecessary since the QtEditRole is static for each particular column (e.g. Note).

It should be possible to create a custom handler that allows the Clippings class to manage just the mutable data internally while responding to external requests with the complete data structure.

Consider adding an "Automatic (prefer before)" and "Automatic (prefer after)"

Export Patterns don't use the "Date Interpreter" language setting to localize month or day-of-week names. An easy work-around is to use a pattern without named months or days-of-week (as is true of the default pattern) so this is an extremely low priority bug.

Presently, the import fails silently. This situation is extremely likely if someone also has the file open in Excel so it needs to be handled.

Users report that non-english datetimes are not properly parsed (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2820915&postcount=57)

• It's unclear whether the localization issue referenced from Django applies to python at large (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13339)
• However, QT support some localized parsing (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qlocale.html)
• Note that QT has issues with dates >2000 that did not include a 4 digit year

The following was provided as a Spanish example:

Tu subrayado en la posición 3197-3198 | Añadido el jueves, 10 de abril de 2014 23:29:31

the date part starts with "| Añadido el" and the date itself is "jueves, 10 de abril de 2014 23:29:31", that could be traslated as "thursday, 10th of april of 2014 23:29:31", but i didn't succcess with differents date import patters, trying with and without "de" or the name of the day of the week.

Several users reported that their Kindle used a word (like "a") as a connector.

In many environments (especially Windows UAC and Mac), DaleyKlippings is not allowed to modify the settings.txt file (if it is located in the program folder). While these users can take advantage of the portable version, it would be best to move everything to an user data folder.

• This might be achieved purely programmatically (try to open files in user data, falling back on local files (that are read-only).
• Otherwise, more involved installation is required

The following research has already been completed with respect to the second possibility:

• NSIS needs to create folder and add permissions (http://delvingintodev.carrclan.us/2012/11/application-data-directories-on.html)
• Look for settings.txt in AppData. If settings.txt isn't present in AppData, check for legacy file in current folder and copy to AppData

Even if the user has to download, notify them.

Preserve (in the settings) the location used to access "My Clippings.txt" since it will likely remain the same in subsequent efforts.

Does CSV Import allow you to reimport dates exported using the localized date?

It's possible recent improvements to CSV export created a situation where localized dates are used in the export but not supported if the file is reimported.

Presently, both start on the top item. It makes sense to instead default both to the default item (if present).

Right now, the pattern name is the only way to determine which devices (and configurations) are supported. It would be nice to identify the most important dimensions (device, language, time format, etc.) and categorize patterns by those values.

Based on my limited experience, it should be possible to (mostly) separate translations from patterns. This would make it easier for users to provide a custom language and simplify the list of patterns. There are some quirks (like <page>-<page> vs <page> a <page>) but that could be one of the relevant categories for the patterns of #19.

Assume a user follows a sequence like:

• Highlight Range A and add Note 1
• Highlight Range B and add Note 2
• Highlight Range A (or part thereof) and add Note 3

The My Clippings file will not repeat the highlight adjacent to Note 3. As a result, our adjacency checks will not correctly link the note to the related highlight.

Exporting CSV files is possible (but poor) and importing completely impossible using the existing Pattern system. CSV import/export would be useful, particularly for bulk editing of entries. Python has a full featured CSV module that will make this reasonably easy to implement.

To minimize the potential issues from copy-pasting patterns, it would be nice to offer a pattern import/export feature.

The export patterns for Evernote and XML currently don't work in the latest Windows builds on your website. Downloading the latest export pattern from your blog doesn't work either. I have imported highlights from my Kindle using the paperwhite import pattern. I can see them in the GUI. They just don't output. All I get is the Evernote and XML with the skeleton, without any content. Please advise / fix :)

Many thanks

Upper left corner doesn't use new icon.