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Just insert covers as divider tabs and then add them to the outline view. That way you can quickly jump to the start of that section, or if you want to see a particular page within the section, use the thumbnail view where your "tab" sheet, labeled in large text, will help you quickly narrow your search.
One thing that would be nice in a native notebook divider tab feature would be to have a narrow vertical right edge to represent those divider tabs to jump to that section without having to first go to the outline view. This should be implemented with the ability to toggle the dividers off/on with a single tap.
Problem:
As a consultant, I often scan many pages of my notes to pull out subsets of actionable items, such as tasks I've tagged "#customize", "#research", or "#user-training", so I can pull these into my final recommendations or project implementation plan. When I review my notes, I use the text box tool to quickly add my own hashtags near the targeted notes, which allows for precise searching. When I search on the hashtag "#customize" I may get 32 results from a single note-taking session, which is helpful, but I have to go to each one, and then go back to search and click on the next one. Also, this tag only knows where the tagged content *starts* – it has no idea where it *ends*.
Proposed Solution:
While reviewing notes there would be a new tool - I'd suggest a rubber band lasso tool like Photoshop's - that would allow me to select a range of content, and upon completion of the selection, a dialog box would prompt me to tag the selected area. Ideally I would be able to limit the tags I'm choosing from with filters such as "recently used tags", "proofing tags", "action items", etc. and of course "add new tag." That alone would be great for searchability, but the bigger idea is that since we have defined *vector* boundaries for the tag, we would be able to search on a tag or tags, and then aggregate all of those sections as a single new notebook, which could behave like quick notes - treat it as a temporary virtual notebook or save it so we could view the selections in a separate standalone notebook. This would also set the stage for being able to view a notebook grouped by tagged content, with untagged content before or after tagged content, retaining its original sequence. A robust solution would show preview snippets in the untagged content to represent the content that had been moved, and clicking the preview would jump to the content block.
The functionality for aggregation could reside in the search tool where you would first search by tag, and then in the results screen a new option would be available to "combine search results as quick notebook." A robust solution would include checkboxes for each search result, so you could select a subset of the results to be combined.