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Bugs

  • Colour in comparison mode (bad interaction with edits for self-link colour).
  • If self links are prevented, but forward links are allowed, then we get stuck when trying to jump over the cursor.
  • Add option to prevent annotations of labels when in linking mode + fix handling of reading them in when they are present.
  • Log all actions with times

Ideas

Documentation

  • Note the use of 'n', 'p', 'shift-n', 'shift-p' in comparison mode
  • Nicer examples
  • Tutorials on each mode
  • How to change configurations

Visual

  • Show filename at the bottom of the screen when the info section is visible, on the division line
  • Option for 'next' and 'prev' to cycle (ie if it hits the top, search from the bottom)
  • Legend/key giving keys and their labels + colors
  • Rather than highlighting text, use columns on the left (block of colour), for line mode at least. Not sure about tokens
  • Variable location of instructions
  • For blank lines, option to print only one in a row
  • Handling clusters (make the set visible)
  • Show the set of available labels
  • Ability to colour linked items as they are created (to see the history). Either always showing all using different colours, or showing what the cursor is linked to.
  • Allow different default when resolving disagreements (rather than the union, only have those with agreement, or a majority). Note, this is subtle, as it interacts with the way colouring works.
  • Option to highlight matches

Annotation

  • Constrain annotations, e.g. a flag to not allow links to point in one direction
  • Make link vs. category vs. text changeable during annotation
  • Option to not allow annotation of some files (and not create a file)
  • Specify every chunk must be labeled, or only some
  • Allow auto-search over labels (i.e. user types characters and we search over labels to get the right one as they type)
  • Be able to annotate with errors (creating new errors along the way) and then sort by label
  • Be able to mix levels (e.g. dialogue acts per line, and named entities within the line)
  • Look into the Concrete format (https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~vandurme/papers/concretely-annotated-corpora.pdf) amd the LAF format for data input / output
  • Allow multiple annotations of the same file at the same time

Movement

  • Jump to next/prev unannotated chunk
  • Option to jump to a line
  • Add the ability to jump to the start/end of a paragraph (and expand / contract similarly)
  • Jump to next match on a regex
  • Option to have jumping retain the span's size (at the moment it becomes a single item again)
  • When the movement key is pressed multiple times in a row quickly, start jumping further [optional], or have a fast jump key?

Internal

  • Change help to be a mode (currently other keys are interpreted while it is showing)
  • Saving both cursor and link for linking mode (in todo file) and reading similarly
  • For help, compose it out of a set of items, with line breaks changing when the screen is narrow

Supplementary tools

  • IAA calculator (at all possible scales)
  • Take standoff and create inline data (instead of adding inline as an input / output)

Misc

  • Add a calibration mode, where people type keys so I can figure out what they mean (and they could customise things)
  • Add logging of all edits to a file, so a crash can be recoverd from easily
  • Support undo to reverse actions
  • Add the option to read in the raw data when going back to a seen file
  • Option to load all at start
  • Option to only save on exit (not when changing files)
  • Nicer argument, error, and logging handling
  • A 'new user' mode on startup that toggles a bunch of things