Tags and PDFs

[Ariel]

Hi- I am a graduate student, and i mainly work with articles and books in PDF
form. Since OneNote 2007 can not tag specific paragraphs within a PDF - I
read PDFs in Acrobat, and then cut and past important paragraphs into
OneNote to be tagged and commented on. I normally have at least two tags per
paragraph.

When I perform a tag search- the results are organized by individual tag,
but I can't tell what other tags were assigned to the paragraph. For example,
if I have four tags: X,Y,1 and 2 - i can sort documents by each individual
tags, but I can't tell which documents in my X category are also in my 1
category.

Do you have any tips to fix or work around this problem?

Thanks,

Ariel

 

[djprius]

Hi- I am a graduate student, and i mainly work with articles and books in PDF
form. Since OneNote 2007 can not tag specific paragraphs within a PDF - I
read PDFs in Acrobat, and then cut and past important paragraphs into
OneNote to be tagged and commented on. I normally have at least two tags per
paragraph.

When I perform a tag search- the results are organized by individual tag,
but I can't tell what other tags were assigned to the paragraph. For example,
if I have four tags: X,Y,1 and 2 - i can sort documents by each individual
tags, but I can't tell which documents in my X category are also in my 1
category.

Do you have any tips to fix or work around this problem?

Thanks,

Ariel

In OneNote 2010 Beta, one can sort the tags by "Note Text" (as well
as other sorts, including by "Tag"). If one uses "Note Text", the
result is organized by each 'container'. Thus, if there are 3 tags on a
paragraph (container) starting "The last time that ...", one will the
that phrase appearing 3 times (adjacent) and show the three different
tags associated with that paragraph (container). I think this is what
you are looking for.
One can search for tags by page group, section, section group,
notebook, or all notebooks (as well as several 'date' options -- like
"This week's notes").
Not sure which of these features are available on OneNote 2007.

David

 

[djprius]

In OneNote 2010 Beta, one can sort the tags by "Note Text" (as well as
other sorts, including by "Tag"). If one uses "Note Text", the result is
organized by each 'container'. Thus, if there are 3 tags on a paragraph
(container) starting "The last time that ...", one will the that phrase
appearing 3 times (adjacent) and show the three different tags
associated with that paragraph (container). I think this is what you are
looking for.
One can search for tags by page group, section, section group, notebook,
or all notebooks (as well as several 'date' options -- like "This week's
notes").
Not sure which of these features are available on OneNote 2007.

David

This is a correction to the above post by me:
1. In the second sentence "one will the that ..." should say "one
will see that ..."

2. I used the word "containers" incorrectly, I think. It should
probably be "elements" -- or some other word: I am referring to parts
that have the "+" sign in the left margin when one left clicks in the text.

David