Notes and Bookmarks

Notes and Bookmarks

Pro feature. Available in Learnomy Pro.

Learnomy Pro gives every enrolled student a personal notebook and a bookmark list that live right beside the lesson they are studying. Notes are searchable, taggable, and gathered into one account hub, so a learner with hundreds of them can still find the right one.

What you can do

• Write more than one note on a single lesson, each with its own optional title and body, and edit any of them inline with autosave.
• Organise notes with your own tags, reused from an autocomplete of tags you have created before.
• Bookmark any lesson with a single toggle, so you can jump back to it later.
• Search every note you have written across all your courses with full-text search, then narrow by course or by tag.
• Manage everything from one place – a first-class Notes & Bookmarks section in My Account at /account/notes/, with a paginated newest-first list.
• See a Notes & Bookmarks summary widget on your student dashboard with live counts that links into the account hub.
• Keep your notes and bookmarks private to you – they are never shared with other students or the instructor.

How to use it

Step 1 – open a lesson you are enrolled in

The notes panel appears in the lesson player for any lesson in a course you are enrolled in. It is not shown to logged-out visitors or to people who are not enrolled.

Step 2 – add a note

Type in the note field and Learnomy saves it for you – there is no separate Save button. A status indicator shows “Saving” then “Saved”. You can give the note a title, and you can add more than one note to the same lesson.

Step 3 – tag a note

Add tags to a note to group it with related notes. As you type, Learnomy suggests tags you have used before so your vocabulary stays consistent. Tags are your own – each student has their own tag list.

Step 4 – bookmark the lesson

Use the bookmark toggle in the panel to mark the lesson. Toggle it again to remove the bookmark. Each lesson can be bookmarked once.

Step 5 – find notes later from My Account

Open My Account -> Notes & Bookmarks (/account/notes/). Use the search bar to full-text search your notes, filter by course or by tag, switch between the Notes and Bookmarks lists, and page through the results. From a note you can jump straight back to its lesson, or delete it.

Settings and options

• Multiple notes per lesson. There is no fixed limit on how many notes a lesson can hold. A single note’s body can be up to 10,000 characters.
• Per-student tags. Tags belong to the student who created them and are reused across all their courses.
• Account list page size. The account hub shows 20 notes or bookmarks per page with previous / next navigation and an accurate total count.
• Search behaviour. The account search uses MySQL full-text search across each note’s title and content, with a plain match for very short terms.
• Enable the feature. Notes & Bookmarks is a Pro extension. A site owner turns it on from the Modules screen (LMS Settings > Modules); it is off by default until enabled.
• Privacy requests. Notes, tags, and bookmarks are included in a student’s WordPress personal-data export and are removed on a personal-data erasure request.

For developers

REST API (namespace learnomy-pro/v1, every request is scoped to the current user):

• GET /notes – list / search the caller’s notes (q, course_id, tag_id, page, per_page).
• POST /notes – create a note (lesson_id, title?, content, tags[]?).
• GET /notes/{id}, PATCH /notes/{id}, DELETE /notes/{id} – read, update, delete a single note (owner only).
• GET /lessons/{lesson_id}/notes – this lesson’s notes, used by the in-lesson panel.
• GET /note-tags, POST /note-tags, DELETE /note-tags/{id} – the caller’s tags and counts.
• GET /bookmarks – list the caller’s bookmarks (course_id, page, per_page).
• POST /bookmarks/{lesson_id} – toggle a bookmark; DELETE /bookmarks/{lesson_id} – remove it.

Capability:

• learnomy_save_notes – auto-granted to every logged-in user with read. This is the gate on all notes / bookmarks endpoints; lesson-scoped writes additionally require access to the lesson’s parent course.

Storage:

• Four dedicated indexed tables – lrn_pro_notes, lrn_pro_note_tags, lrn_pro_note_tag_map, lrn_pro_bookmarks. Notes carry a FULLTEXT index on (title, content).

Front routes and hooks consumed:

• Registers the account-notes front route (/account/notes/) and a My Account nav item.
• Renders the panel on the learnomy_lesson_player_aside action and a student-dashboard widget on learnomy_dashboard_widgets.
• Cascades note and bookmark deletion on the learnomy_lesson_deleted action.