Bug 169178 - Bookmark "stickynote" enhancement
Summary: Bookmark "stickynote" enhancement
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Bookmarks
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Reported: 2025-10-31 18:32 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-11-03 15:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Bookmark idea (154.58 KB, image/png)
2025-10-31 18:32 UTC, Danat
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Description Danat 2025-10-31 18:32:28 UTC
Description:
I thought about the possibility of bookmarks as stickers to the side of the pages

So there is a small window near the page where you can write something like "this table needs better formatting", "some items are omitted from this list", etc.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a multiple-page document
2.Put sticker-bookmarks to the left or to the right of the pages to remind you of unfinished work
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Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 Danat 2025-10-31 18:32:50 UTC
Created attachment 203645 [details]
Bookmark idea
Comment 2 Roman Kuznetsov 2025-10-31 20:42:02 UTC
It could be realize just like comments in Writer

UX-team, your opinion?
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-03 14:01:19 UTC
Bookmarks are rather anchors in LibreOffice with the idea to jump around key positions. See https://help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-US/text/swriter/01/04040000.html (somehow it is also possible to hide the bookmark text but I don't remember how).

Your "note" looks to me like a comment, and we have it available out of the box. And if you think of a floating sticker, why not use a shape for this?
Comment 4 Danat 2025-11-03 14:15:00 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Bookmarks are rather anchors in LibreOffice with the idea to jump around key
> positions. See
> https://help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-US/text/swriter/01/04040000.html
> (somehow it is also possible to hide the bookmark text but I don't remember
> how).
> 
> Your "note" looks to me like a comment, and we have it available out of the
> box. And if you think of a floating sticker, why not use a shape for this?

Actually, it is right. The comments mostly eliminate the need for what I suggested. I did not know they existed

Though there are a couple things that can be improved

1. Comments open columns on all pages even if they have no comments. Why? It wastes space. I think those blank columns should be removed
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169182

2. Comments are tied to words or phrases, and I think there can also be more general remarks concerning the page or the subject. Maybe they can be given a different colour of choice. Maybe they can be placed to the left and not to the right

But you're right, this need is mostly filled by the comments, and I did not know about that
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-03 14:25:33 UTC
You can collapse / hide the comments bar quickly. And there is a (experimental) sidebar for comments. Ultimately you are looking for shapes :-).
Comment 6 Danat 2025-11-03 15:06:20 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> You can collapse / hide the comments bar quickly. And there is a
> (experimental) sidebar for comments. Ultimately you are looking for shapes
> :-).

Thanks. Sure, they can be closed, but having to open and close them all the time can be pretty tiresome and annoying

Imagine if you got a long doc and some pages have comments while others don't, so do you have to expand and close them all the time? It doesn't feel very nice in my opinion