Match Protonotes feature set

Hey, sorry, I have been in vacations. Thanks for the link to protonotes. For the moment I want to get a stable release out. After that I will start to add new features. But instead of matching the protonotes features 1:1 I would prefer a discussion about useful features to integrate into the Sticky Notes module. This module is not intended to be a clone of any existing notes application, and by the way, there are lots of them out there.

I would love to see this module module include functionality for highlighting text and previewing the notes as smaller icons that are associated with highlighted text or specific sections of page. In this way, this module might be used as an effective text annotation or feedback tool for papers (think of written assignments in e-learning-- this could be a great tool for that kind of environment or website).

what do you mean with highlighting text? Can you elaborate on that please?

What I mean by highlighting: a user who has permissions to comment on a particular node can, in much the same way as selecting the location to post a note, use the left mouse button (by holding it down) to select text or screen area, and by doing so, highlight it. A comment, or sticky note, would automatically open for this highlighted area. Many of these comments could be added, as long as a collapsed, or preview icon, was generated for each highlighted portion of the text or screen. I'm not sure this is within your vision of what this module should do, but I thought that this was close enough, I would suggest it. See the attached image for an example of what I'm talking about.

So if I understand you right you are looking for a functionality as described int this thread: http://groups.drupal.org/node/72748
There is also a link to a demo: http://www.patrickgmj.net/node/188

As for sticky notes integration of this feature I would see some difficulties implementing this. Your example seems to indicate that I could just select any part of a text, hit a "add note here" button and have a note associated with that text in this node / on this page from now on. This seems like a nice idea. Anyway, I have some difficulties figuring out how to accomplish this. Got to give it some thinking.

Any input is welcome.

It seems to me there are 3 routes:
1) Develop Sticky Notes in its own direction, maybe being inspired by Protonotes, maybe not.
2) Develop Sticky Notes in the direction of Protonotes (seems like a subset of (1))
3) Deveop a new module which does not attempt to bring Protonotes functionality into Drupal but rather tries to put a Drupal wrapper around Protonotes (rather like the Chart & Graphing module puts a Drupal wrapper around the external tools amCharts, Google Charts etc.)

There is of course no reason not to develop option 1 (and/or 2) independently of option 3.

I'm off to look at the idea of option 3...

Deveop a new module which does not attempt to bring Protonotes functionality into Drupal but rather tries to put a Drupal wrapper around Protonotes:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/102244

Good to hear. I will opt for 1) and will certainly follow your efforts.