![]() ![]() Over the last 1-2 weeks, I finally broke thru with the help of this “Annotating” video. I’ve struggled for years with Tinderbox: some successes then frustration, but I kept at it, sensing that it really IS the tool I need. While no longer an academic, I still have need to create academic-like research papers. I’m running a few months behind here Michael, but congrats and thanks for making such an impressive (family of!) video. ![]() Unless you know you’ll only do work in that app and the result will never leave the app, the value of the app falls somewhat, regardless of any cool features. When looking at a cool utility, it is often useful to start one’s evaluation in the manual and by looking at import/export. The latter has its issues but they are well known and community help is thus much easier to find. Also odd how people want to offer a (usually buggy) less common format rather than simple CSV/TSV. Thus export (and import) are viewed as unwanted enhancement cost rather than, as they should be, a core feature. Still, I’ve seen many knowledge apps go through this myopic phase of “why do you need to export”, the implication being he tool is so great you don’t need to use anything else. So, even if Markdown can export data, careful post-processing is needed before the original data is back in addressable fields. MarginNote’s export is also dumping discrete fields of source data into a single text block, which again shows no understanding of why people export. The root cause seems to be that MarginNote’s designers appear to see no real need for (ROI in) decent export. When I was helping with MarginNote to OmniOutliner ISTR we were using MarginNote’s oo3 (OmniOutliner v3) export which was arriving in OmniOutliner with some problems. I’ve looked at Highlight long ago, and it doesn’t look like it exports files as OmniOutliner files (though maybe there’s a conversion process that can work), and I’m not sure if it can incorporate tags into its annotated notes. So… I’m now seeking a PDF annotation app that can:Īllow me to highlight and tag annotated notes (that’s crucially important for my work process) Įxport just the annotated notes in OmniOutliner – or, at the very least, in a format that I can open in OmniOutliner, and will mirror the MarginNote - OmniOutliner file output (i.e., in which the annotated notes are segmented by the _note, Tags, Book Title, URL columns) Īlso export the annotated files in PDFs that don’t have a prohibitively large file size and (if possible) have URL generated links for the PDF annotations that can function offline I should add that I wouldn’t have been able to do any of this without the incredible and generous assistance of MarginNote’s developers haven’t been updating the app, and so it has become much more difficult to use. I found that it could: (1) Export MarginNote-produced annotation in an OmniOutliner export file format, in which the annotated notes are segmented by the _note, Tags, Book Title, URL columns (2) then I use a script to reformat the OmniOutliner file – in tandem with a TaskPaper file that’s has a set of categories (first level), and their corresponding tag (second level) – so that file is populated with new columns (categories) whenever I’ve annotated notes with their corresponding hashtags (I can further explain this for you if you’d like), and then (3) I’m able to open the reformed file as an OPLM in Tinderbox. rtf, docx, iThoughtsX, and OmniOutliner export files. MarginNote allows users to export these annotations in different file formats, namely. Hi, I recently logged back into the TB forum and saw that you asked a question about my work process as it relates to OmniOutliner.īasically, I’ve been annotating my PDF files with MarginNote, a PDF annotation application that can export the just annotations (i.e., the notes generated from highlights, along with a MarginNote-created URL for each annotation, and the notes and hashtags attached to each annotation/note).
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