?Bookends version "Sente assistant" + notes mgmt?
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:20 am
Columbia University library has been running a blog series on digital workflows for research. It's very useful, since I have a draft of 2/3 of a book done the "regular" way (lots of PDFs, lots of notes that I manage myself using OmniOutliner, and an MS Word replacement). Now I'm trying to get a better workflow that will make extensions and revisions easier.
A key post in the Columbia blog is this one: https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/butler/2 ... assistant/
which goes into a lot of detail about creating notes as you go through a document, tagging those notes, and then arranging them/selecting/referring back to the original PDF. It specifically raves about a user-generated add-on called "Sente Assistant"
The blog posts are full of ideas about setting up tagging hierarchies, using colors, etc. , but all the specifics are for Sente.
My question: Can anyone point me to similar information for Bookends? Most specifically, how might I manage the 1000 different notes I will get from annotating and note taking on 100 different documents?
All suggestions welcome - and I recommend the Columbia blog series. Thanks!
A key post in the Columbia blog is this one: https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/butler/2 ... assistant/
which goes into a lot of detail about creating notes as you go through a document, tagging those notes, and then arranging them/selecting/referring back to the original PDF. It specifically raves about a user-generated add-on called "Sente Assistant"
This sounds well within the capability of Bookends, which I prefer over Sente for several reasons including that (as I understand it), S. does not allow multi-document fulltext search.Power Note Taking with Sente Assistant
But what about making use of your many annotations as a personal archive? How to deploy them and find particular annotations? Since Sente still doesn’t yet allow you to tag individual notes, but only references, the Sente community has created it’s own solution to this. Many of you have by now noticed the many $$tagged$$ strings I put into my individual comments. I put them there as the digital equivalents of keyword or sticky tags or marginal key words in the margins of texts. This allows me, using the tag characters $$string string$$ along with Sente Assistant to start generating a tag index within my Sente library.
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Running Sente Assistant on your synchronized Sente libraries, all your notes and references become instantly accessible as a personal archive. The Sente Assistant allows you to:
Browse your Sente notes, sorted by their correct position on the source page
Perform keyword, wildcard, or tag searches of your notes
Search the references you select in Sente, or across all notes in your Library
Generate an index of all tagged notes
Identify duplicate references in your library
Save your filtered notes or search results in a single RTF, HTML, PDF, ODT, DOC, DOCX, or TXT file
Customize the presentation of your notes in the Assistant
The blog posts are full of ideas about setting up tagging hierarchies, using colors, etc. , but all the specifics are for Sente.
My question: Can anyone point me to similar information for Bookends? Most specifically, how might I manage the 1000 different notes I will get from annotating and note taking on 100 different documents?
All suggestions welcome - and I recommend the Columbia blog series. Thanks!
