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Make it easier to add note when adding book
Oct 23, 2026
At the moment, I have to
- add the book by searching for book name
- clicking 'Want to Read'
- search again, and click on the book, because I always forget that it won't then take me to the book page!
- on the book page, click See reading journal
- click New Entry
- click Note
- write note and save
be great if there was a way to do this more easily; if it was more obvious I'd add more notes as to who recommended books to me (etc) which would be helpful later when choosing/reading books
Comments
just noticed Want to Read has a right-arrow that gives the extra option of 'Open to Buddy Read' - maybe 'Add Note' could go there as well
unfortunately no, because the use case I'm imagining is that a user wants to add a book but also add a note while adding the book. I just checked Goodreads and Storygraph to see if there's a pattern to follow, but Goodreads is equally awkward and I can't find a note option on Storygraph.
I can't think of an elegant solution at the moment, but maybe someone in the future will have a genius idea!
https://hardcover.app/@user/journals
You can go to the journal entry and skip the first 3 steps if you want to. The above page will collect the entry. Would a new note button from this journal page help add notes much easier? Is that what you are envisioning?