Context-appropriately automatically load highlights for a given page

[Stvad]

There are several cases when it seems appropriate to automatically load highlights for the page

• When you annotated the page before you should have an option to automatically load the annotations each time you visit the page
• When someone gives you a specially formatted link (that'd embed an information that page X is annotated with highlights in room Y)
  • As a one subcase of that I can see extension being one of the handler for "matrix.to" links
• When a page embeds a special metadata tag indicating that there are public annotations available for it in Room Z

[DanilaFe]

All of these are great, but a special metadata tag in particular is an excellent idea that I can't believe I didn't think of myself.

[Stvad]

I've been thinking about it in the context of writing https://vlad.roam.garden/Bringing-knowledge-and-conversation-closer-together which, I think, you may find interesting! Would appreciate any thoughts you have on it!

[DanilaFe]

Hi @Stvad, I've added some preliminary support for auto-joining suggested rooms into matrix-highlight recently. In particular, it looks for a

    <meta name="matrix-highlight-comments" content="$ROOM_ID">

tag in the page, and if it finds one, it automatically activates the extension. The rooms are displayed in a new "suggested rooms" tab. The only trouble is that it seems like right now, to retrieve room info (name, events), it needs to be readable by anyone (public room with "everyone can see" history). Other than that, it seems to work well!