Note taking workflow article

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 28, 2012 at 06:45 PM

JasonE wrote:
http://drosophiliac.com/2012/09/an-academic-notetaking-workflow.html

Thanks for that. Interesting system. I use a very similar workflow on the PC. Instead of iAnnotate PDF I use GoodReader and PDF Expert on the iPad, and on the PC I use EndNote instead of Papers, PDF XChange Viewer instead of Skim, and ConnectedText instead of VoodooPad.

The main difference is that my system is more text-based (as opposed to colour) initially, as I use GoodReader/PDF Expert’s highlight and comment extraction tools (which I find better that those of iAnnotate) to email myself the notes, which go into CT, and there I use colours to annotate the reading notes further.

By extracting the text this way there is less of a need to link to specific PDF pages, as all the key text is in the wiki already. But I still include a link to the PDF itself.

BTW, I didn’t realise there is a Windows version of Papers: http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/