On 12 May 2009, at 6:54 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote:

> Folks-
>
> I've been thinking about and discussing with some of my colleagues
> different workflows that involve Skim and/or BibDesk. One of them
> asked if annotations could be tagged or have any other type of
> metadata associated with them; for example, if one is going through
> documents looking for quotes from a particular person, each quote
> could be highlighted and tagged. Then a file (or multiple files, if
> doing this from BibDesk) could be searched for that particular tag
> separate from the content of the actual highlighting.
>

No, there's no support for annotation tags possible. See the various  
closed RFEs.

> It occurred to me that there is already some metadata associated with
> annotations (color, line width, etc.), so this might be an easily
> extensible property of skim notes. Or it might be a pain to implement,
> or impossible, or not worth it.
>

Impossible, as we won't diverge any more from the PDF specs.

> Thoughts? Are there suggestions for ways this could be done within the
> existing program that I'm entirely unaware of?
>
> Thanks
> -AHM

No, unless you count adding some text to the text associated to a note  
and using the search field.

Christiaan


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