Highlights and Notes

Thuze allows you to create notes and highlights within your eTextbook. Highlight text you feel is important and may want to refer back to later. Create notes to add your thoughts or cross-reference the content to something else.

Highlights

To create a highlight:

Select some text by left clicking with your mouse and dragging it over the text you wish to select. Upon release, a toolbar will pop up.
Select the highlight button. The text should now be highlighted.

To change the color of your highlight:

Select an existing highlight by left clicking with your mouse.
From the pop up menu, click on a new color.

NOTE: If you select a new color, it will stay for all new highlights until you change it. The new color will not affect highlights you have already made.

To delete a highlight:

Select an existing highlight by left clicking with your mouse.
From the pop up menu, click the trash can button.
Once you confirm deletion, your highlight will disappear.

Notes

To create a note:

Select by left clicking with your mouse and dragging the cursor over the text where you want to create a note.
Select the Note button.
Compose your note in the text box.
Once you have composed your note, you can click outside of the text box to close it - the note will be saved automatically for you.

To edit or change the color of a note, simply click the note button in the text. The note will open and you can edit the content of the note right in the text field. You can also change the color of the note by clicking the different color buttons.

NOTE: You can place up to 500 characters in the note box, including spaces.

To delete a note:

Select a note by left clicking on the in-text Note icon.
In the bottom right hand corner of the Note box, select the trash can icon.
Once you confirm deletion, you notes will disappear.

Sharing Notes

You can subscribe to notes that other readers are sharing for your book, and share your knowledge with other readers.

To share a note:

Click the share icon when you are creating or editing a note.

NOTE: When the note is private, the share icon will appear gray. When the note is public, the share icon will appear green.

To subscribe to Shared Notes*:

If you have shared one or more notes, your name will appear to others in the Shared Notes list, so other readers can subscribe to you.

Launch the Shared Notes pane from the footer bar of your reader.
Click the share button to the right of the person's name, and their notes will appear contextually in your reading material.

You can unsubscribe by clicking on the same share button. This button will appear purple if you are subscribed to them, and gray if you are not. Within the text, others notes will be purple, with share indicators. These notes are read only and will contain the name of the person who created the note. Your shared notes will have green share indicators. If you change your mind, you can un-share a note by clicking the share icon again in the shared notes pane in the footer bar of your reader.

Reviewing Highlights and Notes

Thuze makes it easy to refer to the notations you've made in your text.

Notations tab:

You can view all of your highlights and notes by clicking on the notations tab in the contents drop down of the top navigation bar, from here you can quickly navigate to the location in the text where you created the highlight and note.

The Notebook:

The notebook is a place where you can review, manage, and edit all of the highlight and notes you create within the text. It serves as a study tool that helps you focus on the content that you need to remember. From the notebook you can edit, share, delete, filter, and change the color of your annotations.

To launch your notebook:

Click the notebook button on the footer of the reader.

To edit, share, or un-share, change the color of, or delete any of your notes:

Click the note icon and the edit options will be available via a toolbar menu.

The filtering function at the top of the notebook, allows you to view only the color and type of annotation you wish to review. All of your highlights and notes will appear by default, but if you only wanted to see your orange notes, for example, deselect your green and blue note buttons, and all of your highlight buttons. Re-select to bring them back into view.

You can collapse sections that aren't important to review at this time by clicking or tapping on the arrow icon to the left of the Chapter or Section title. The back arrow to the right of the highlight or note lets you navigate to the place in the text where you created the annotation.

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