Jump to a specific page in the pdf

[Remus]

Hello!

I understood that there are two kinds of notecards, the ones belonging to the pdf, and the ones belonging to Bookends. The last ones show the page in the pdf where the note is found at the beginning of the notecards (let's say @5), precisely because clicking on them does not take one to the page where the note has been made (unlike the notes made directly in the pdf). Is there an option to jump directly to a specific page in the pdf from the Bookends app? I can do this in any pdf reader (there is an option called "go to page..."), but I cannot find one in Bookends.

Thank you!

[Jon]

We didn't do this because (1) the @page is often to the actual PDF page number in the journal (e.g. 103), not the relative page number, so Bookends wouldn't know which to look for, and (2) it would just get you to the page, not the quoted or commented upon text. Despite these problems it could be done (but the results would often be unsatisfactory for these reasons) if enough people wanted it.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Remus]

I believe that such an option would be great because one could directly jump to that page from the Bookends itself, i.e. without needing to open the pdf in another app.
But I didn't understand the first reason. What is the difference between pdf page number and relative page number?

[Jon]

A relative page number is 1..n. A real page number (i.e. the page number in a journal) is 1324..n. Depending on the publisher, the PDF may number the page (internally, which is what Bookends can read) as 1, whereas you would cite it in the notecard as @1324.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Nhaps]

What I do is to set Skim as default folder in the OS, so that when I click an attachment in BE it opens right to the file in Skim. There in Skim I have all my underlining and marks in a right panel. So when I click these annotations, it takes me right to the page of the citation. There I can easily have the best of two worlds, relative page, and actual location of marks, which are actually the same page!

[Remus]

That is a good alternative. Thank you for your idea, Nhaps!