I've spent the last few months designing an "academic workflow" for my PhD
studies, which integrates BibDesk (for citation management), Skim (for
taking notes and highlights) and my Kindle with a DokuWiki installation
(which I run locally, and rsync to update on my server). I've written a ton
of glue-scripts in Ruby using AppleScript to tie these applications
together, and enhance the functionality of DokuWiki (and also a small plugin
for displaying citations in DokuWiki, inspired by the refnotes plugin).
I absolutely love Skim, and it's brilliant how easy it is to export notes. I
have a script that automatically exports all notes, formats them nicely, and
creates a DokuWiki page, with the citation taken from BibDesk. I also wrote
a little URL handler, which uses bibdesk:// URLs to open files in BibDesk
(and with file#pagenumber you can open it to a specific page). This let's me
link every single note from Skim to a link that automatically opens that PDF
on that exact page. Brilliant. I also have a script that let's me very
easily clip and import images from a PDF in Skim to DokuWiki.
I made a screencast showing how it all comes together here, and have tried
to document everything technical as well:
http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start (and you can also see how the wiki
looks - although as you see on the screencast there is quite a lot of
functionality that only works on my local computer).
Stian
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