I click the internal link to the summary page and read the associated text. However, with this workflow, as I edit, I can open my content outline parallel to my manuscript. One of my favorite mental tricks as I am editing is to “improve” wording and unintentionally change a paraphrase back to a structure and often wording that is very close to the original source, thus inadvertently, but potentially, plagiarizing. I included the Papers citekey with the paraphrase or summary, so it gets pasted into the manuscript as I write ready to create my bibliography. Currently, I use Scrivener, but I plan to explore some other minimalist writing apps soon. From the content outline, I write my manuscript. Highlights automatically included links to the original pdf of the source in Highlights and to the pdf in Papers (or alt Bookends). With Scrivener and Outline , it is easy to create an internal link back to the summary page, easier than with CPN. I create a content outline of my manuscript by copying my paraphrases or summaries to the content outline from the summary page. I have yet to make a decision.Įither way, I make a summary page for each source I am using in the manuscript with a single paste from Highlights. I had been using Circus Ponies Notebook (CPN), but with their demise earlier is year, I am exploring the notebook/outlining tools in Scrivener and Outline . I paste the information from Highlights onto a source summary page in a notebook/outlining app. This preserves fonts and most importantly URLs. However, after I am finished with a source, I Select All and use an rtf clipboard called Copy’Em Paste. Highlights exports to a number of formats including markdown language and Ulysses. I also paste the Papers citekey for the source and any \\ I want to the end of the note. Highlights lets me highlight or underline text, then write my summaries, paraphrases and notes. This opens the pdf copy from my Papers database and saves it there too. To use Highlights with Papers, I use the PDF… Open With… feature and choose Highlights. This has made the recent versions of Papers (3.4.5 currently) really stable, at least for me. I have chosen to keep most of my academic work on a single laptop which I transport to various work environments. Most of the stability problems with a lot of apps are because of syncing between devices. There are other unique features in Papers 3 that I think are essential, though I tried Bookends and Sente. Highlights does not integrate with Sente proprietary format. You cannot readily switch back and forth, at least, not during a single project. You have to choose to use Highlights with either Papers or Bookends. Highlights integrates with Papers or Bookends in some cool ways, but I would really rather it replace the native tools in ether of these apps. They did not seem to be interested in addressing the needs of the academic market. I even contacted a couple of developers whose apps I like for other pdf handling features to see if they would add these simple features. As simple as its functions are, I have yet to find any other annotation app that fits into my academic workflow as well as Highlights. I have been using Highlights for a while now. (The right pane is in ‘View’ mode, showing rendered Markdown text.) Highlights also supports integration with Papers (currently only Papers and nothing else) by adding a link (in blue) to the document in the Papers library. In my example below, it successfully grabbed the metadata and automatically added to the notes, which are displayed in the right pane. When you open a PDF, Highlights asks whether to fetch metadata for the document. For those people keen on using Markdown in their writing process, this may be of interest as the distinctive feature of this little program is that it formats notes in Markdown. Just very recently, I came across this light-weight app aptly called Highlights. user needs” matching exercise it is nice to see new offerings with a slightly different approach. In this constant and incremental “apps vs. However, we may not necessarily be happy with those built-in capabilities as they may not be well aligned with our own flavour of note taking. As far as I know most reference managers now implement some form of a note taking/highlighting feature. Note taking in the era of PDFs has clearly become an issue for most people working with electronic documents on a daily basis.
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