Notebook for article references

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myblondeshowing

Am using for school and I am dowloading tons of pdfs. Thought I would set up
a single notebook and organize by category, yada, yada, yada, attach the
abstract then attach the actual pdf. Has anyone done somthing similar? Is
it better to attacht the PDF or is it better to print the pdf into onenote?
Does this idea even make sense?

Thanx in advance...
 
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exciter

If I am going to read the full pdf article, I read it in ON and not in the
pdf file.
Because then you can arrange, mark sentences, take notes and so on.

I would not add the pdf to the notebook because the pdf itself is then
copied to the ON notebook folder
and in time it can make things complicated (such as if you are going to
create links and move folders then).

I would create a seperate folder for all pdf files. If I am going to go over
a specific pdf file, then copy the text of that pdf to ON
and read it in ON and keep it in ON, in ON format and that is your own
format.

I do like that.
 
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Erik Sojka (MVP)

Printing the PDF into OneNote will let you write and annotate on top of the
inserted printed image. OneNote will perform a OCR on the printed file and
then index it, making it easier to search.



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Hector C.

I have written a form in InfoPath that I fill whenever I find a paper
worthy of study/citation. The form creates the BibTeX file and a OneNote
file with links to both the pdf and bib files and fills out my database.
That way, if I want to read the pdf just click on the link. Otherwise, I
screen capture the bits I want to comment on (I use SnagIt instead of
the built-in screen capture utility). I paste them and comment on them.
I prefer this to printing the whole paper because I might have
references with 50+ pages. Besides, I use Copernic Desktop Search to
search the pdf because it is faster and easier on the system. I don't
use the Microsoft search because I want to clearly distinguish between
searches in internet and searches in my computer, keep them as
compartmentalized as possible.

My solution requires InfoPath, Access, SnagIt, and Copernic in addition
to OneNote. It might not be for everyone.

Cheers.
 
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Hector C.

Oliver said:
Would you like to share your form and your experience?
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Sure. Right now I have to finish my dissertation, but I'll polish it and
upload it somewhere by December. If you want it faster than that, I can
send it to your personal email. There are many hard coded paths that
need to be changed, but it fits my personal needs a little bit better
than EndNote would do.

++Hector C.
 
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Rainald Taesler

Hector said:
Sure. Right now I have to finish my dissertation, but I'll polish
it and upload it somewhere by December. If you want it faster than
that, I can send it to your personal email. There are many hard
coded paths that need to be changed, but it fits my personal needs
a little bit better than EndNote would do.
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Sounds really interesting.
It would be really nice if you could make it available at any convenient
time.

Good luck for your dissertation!
Rainald
 
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Rainald Taesler

Erik said:
Printing the PDF into OneNote will let you write and annotate on
top of the inserted printed image. OneNote will perform a OCR on
the printed file and then index it, making it easier to search.
Click to expand...

.... with the known limitations (size in ON, remarks not tied to the
image of the PDF).

Although being a true ON fanatic, meanwhile I mostly use PDFAnnotator to
make remarks on PDFs and just keep links to the PDFs in ON.
Searching (in the PDFs, not the remarks) now is easy either with
WDS/Vista Search or Adobe's search (especially in indexed directories).

Rainald
 
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Rainald Taesler

Hector said:
... Besides, I use Copernic Desktop Search to search the pdf
because it is faster and easier on the system. I don't use the
Microsoft search because I want to clearly distinguish between
searches in internet and searches in my computer, keep them as
compartmentalized as possible.
Click to expand...

You don't use WDS 3.x??
AFAICS distinguishing searches is no problem and searching inside ON and
outside (from the search prompt) works really fine.

Rainald
 
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