[Feature Request] Additional Resources for the e-Book and PDF Reader

[josh3way]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The reader (e-Book and PDF) is very minimal and comfortable, but there are some key features that are missing:

1. Highlighter
2. "Make available offline" for PDFs and e-Books.

These key features would greatly improve simultaneous reading of a PDF and writing in Cryptee documents.

Describe the solution you'd like
A highlighter would be an amazing addition to the reader. Sometimes, when you are reading a PDF and taking notes at the same time, marking up the text is a key feature. The speed for downloading and decrypting PDFs and e-Books is very slow; it would be fantastic if there were an option to save them offline, similar to what is already implemented for documents.

Additional context
For the highlighter, when you select text, a highlighter box could open with a few common colors, like this:

Additionally, it would also be interesting to have a list showing all the highlights made, along with a link to take you directly to them.

Best regards,
Josh. ❤️

[johnozbay]

Hey Josh! 👋🏻
Thanks for filing this!

The module we use for reading ebooks actually has a highlighter, the difficulty is / has been saving these highlights — and making sure they're encrypted. Cryptee was initially built to only handle editing of 'Cryptee Documents', but no other file types. And our backend had no way to sync changes to any other attached file so to speak.

This year we've added in depth support for editing PDFs, and with that update, we've made it possible to update files (limited to PDFs for now). We're looking into making a few other updates to our ebook reader functionality in the first quarter of this year, and I think we can squeeze this in there too!

As for having files available offline — we're working on adding this feature for all filetypes. The difficulty here is 'how' we store stuff offline, and how loading files is handled. Once this is ready, I look forward to being able to read my ebooks during flights without ever having to leave Cryptee myself.

So all I can say is that it's on our agenda, and coming very soon.
Will keep you posted! Stay tuned!

All the very best,

J