Spans and Relations: Start in span mode by default

[ines (Ines Montani)]

Hi! This definitely makes sense and we should have a setting for that! Maybe we could just have a setting that lets you order the annotation mode buttons (similar to how you can customise the "buttons" at the bottom). Then you could define ["spans", "rels"]. I'll add this to the list of enhancements!

In the meantime, you could probably use a workaround like the one I suggested in this thread and simulate a click on the span mode button whenever the task changes:

Default selected label in NER_manual

Hi! At the moment, the selected label is kept active as you navigate between annotation tasks – this can often be useful if you're mostly annotating one specific label (because you won't hav to re-select it), but I can definitely see how it can also be desirable to have it reset to the first one. I need to think about how we can best solve this via a config setting. In the meantime, one workaround could be to use JavaScript to simulate a click on the label whenever the current example changes. …

The selector is a bit hacky – we probably need a better human-readable class here:

const button = document.querySelector('button[title="Select spans (s)"]')