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By: Information managers on mac: too much of a good thing? « Bloody Fingers

Information managers on mac: too much of a good thing? « Bloody Fingers — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:51:11 +0000

[...] DevonThink and its pro brother are both heavyweights in the crowded field of information management. Academhack have been hard at work exposing its strong points. My personal point of view: it’s too hard to work with and too visually noisy compared to the others. I fail to see the added value. Sorry. [...]

By: Harvey

Harvey — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:39:09 +0000

It’s a bit clunky but here’s how I do it;
You can open the PDF using ‘open in Preview’. Preview can annotate (the pencil tool) as a yellow sticky note, so practically you’re limited to the white space of the PDF, the font is large and isn’t adjustable. I use numbers and refer to a RTF file (same name as the PDF file without DT’s .PDF extension) created in DT. Save your annotated PDF as ‘title an’ (to show its annotated). Note, printing to PDF doesn’t retain the annotations, but saving makes them a permanent ‘feature’ of the PDF. Drag and drop the PDF back into DT. Now you can open both files, one yellow sticky annotated PDF with it’s RTF ‘endnotes’ next to it

Regards
from Ottawa
Harvey

By: dave

dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:14:32 +0000

Or, you could always use the wikilink function of devon to connect the word to the note in a separate document

By: dave

dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:28:06 +0000

Titus,
No worries, that’s one of the reasons I have this website. No way to attach to a specific page though. You could if it a .rtfd just paste in stickies as if they are a picture. What I do though for long articles is keep my notes all in one document and place both the original and the notes in one folder. I am going to start labeling all of my notes as notes, so that I can just search them, or exclude them as well.

By: Titus Brown

Titus Brown — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:51:37 +0000

Ahh, cool! No way to attach that to a specific page/location, though, right?

(Sorry for using academhack as a help location. I’ll go view the tutorial now

–titus

By: dave

dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:21:45 +0000

Titus,
If you select a document in Devon and select show info (Command+Shift+I) it will pop up an info window. You can type whatever you want into the comments section here, and in the search function of Devon search in comments.

By: Titus Brown

Titus Brown — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:42:25 +0000

I’d really like to be able to post “stickies” on PDFs and Web pages, and then search based on their contents as well (of course!). That would let me annotate pretty much anything. This seems so obvious that I’m sure it’s in there — but I can’t find it! Any ideas?

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:03:39 +0000

I just knew there must be more uses for this wonderful program! Thank you for the tips on using the summarise function to get a fresh look at your own words — I’m going to try this out tonight in an effort to clear some of the dead wood words out of a paper I’m working on.