I think, from my experience, that Christiann's suggestion of adding text-tags (e.g. [xyz] ) to the text of the note is the best approach. You can add them to highlight and other "quoting" notes as well as your own notes.
>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 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your >production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to >Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 >Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >_______________________________________________ >Skim-app-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users -- ----------------- William A. Mohler Associate Professor Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology University of Connecticut Health Center MC-3301 263 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06030-3301 [email protected] Mobile: (860) 985-2719 alt. mobile: (860) 331-8514 skype: wmohler Office: (860) 679-1833, room E2029 Lab: (860) 679-1834, room E2032 Fax: (314) 689-1833 G&DB dept. ofc.: (860) 679-8350 G&DB dept. fax : (860) 679-8345 http://genetics.uchc.edu/Faculty/Mohler/Mohler.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
