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 Can I have highlights on notes? That's my pet NIP and hardly anyone has it. And, as far as I know, only on URIs.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/81/23/8a812348b181e255cdaf984cf180a265.gif
 
 I definitely want to, its a bit annoying code wise tho. 
 I know. I was hoping you'd be able to build it because I can't. 
 I can be bribed with old fashions 
 she probably could she's a smart cookie, just too busy doing tech support for her recently fired colleagues 
 For who? 😂 
 idk, i remember reading something 
 🤷‍♀️ 
 This one is above my pay grade, I'm afraid, but it's an essential innovation to open up a whole swathe of new innovations.

I've asked multiple developers and they're all like 🤔 ⁉️, so I've begged my way up to the top of the food chain. 
 are you talking about a kind of data overlay? like notes on top of notes, with highlight areas marked by start and end?

it's not that complicated to do this, a little complications as it really should refer to the character positions in the escaped json text to be uniform, so essentially "eventID, start, end" rinse and repeat

there is a NIP for this afaik, i think NIP-32  
 most relays will already accept such events it's more a problem of clients both creating them and showing them 
 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/84.md 
 I'm working on a PR for it. I ♥️ this NIP. It's such a big step, referring to parts of notes.

I don't think anyone sees the potential, but it's going to be one of the core NIPs. 
 is there some reason why it can't extend labels? 
 You mean, I have to make you drunk before I take advantage you? 
 This would be sort of groundbreaking. Just saying. 
 NIPS OR GTFO 
 I'd be pleased if Amethyst would just restore the ability it once gave us to select and copy/paste arbitrary segments of note text...🤔😜😄

@Vitor Pamplona 
 Isnt this part of Android now? When I copy I get a popup that you can select part of the text.  
 Hasn't worked for me since many Amethyst revs ago. Of course, somewhere along the line I transitioned to Pixel/Graphene OS, but copy/pasta was lost before that.

Was previously on Android/Motorola... 
 I think it's only if you have play services  
 I just picked up my old Moto phone, did an update of Amethyst, did a clean start of the app, and no, it does not work on the latest Amethyst downloaded from the Play Store.🧐🤔😢 
 It's been unavailable for quite some time on my device/playstore version as well. Just fyi.  
 This is what I get running graphene os. Selecting the copy text box copies the entire note

 https://image.nostr.build/f37897d2156e738f4076d0e27846f7b6be41c2220a6f79c837c541ac994eda98.jpg 
 Correct, when you press copy text, a popup shows up. Click on it and Android has a edit editor there.  
 I guess I don't know android, thanks 
 either way, if we redesign the way we render text, we can allow people to select parts of the note to hightlight and quote.  
 This should show up when you hit copy but I think on old devices and devices without play services like grapheneos this won't show up https://image.nostr.build/6e497a6e1e0dc9d2fe158231cd1fb9733d6320d4b185d9ed8dde2e4ecbd596df.jpg 
 This is correct. That is only on standard android, or possibly a few ROMs, but it is not on older versions or many de-googled ROMs.  
 This popup DOES appear on GrapheneOS regardless of Play Services being installed or not. https://image.nostr.build/d4635136be82992fb6d48d941cb01377b04a07e38baf43ad018d703970256ab1.jpg 
 I think it's not working when using a second profile. Can you test it on your device? 
 Tested and confirmed also spoke with dev team, this is upstream with AOSP unfortunately. 
 Yup, need this too. Given that kind 1's don't have a char limit.