![]() The only caveat is that right now PDF Expert does not export highlighted text as text to email. ![]() PDF Expert is wayyyy faster! HEre’s a great recap of why PDF Expert is lovely. It’s UI is awesome - innotate’s UI sucks. I keep all my downloaded books inside my DOWNLOADED books folder and below I explain how I deal with books. 1.) do this through iAnnotate’s dropbox sync service or 2.) drop files directly into goodreader or iAnnotate in itunes when syncing your ipad. I haven’t finished syncing all of my files yet but I know of two alternatives that may be more practical for people dealing with smaller PDF libraries. I explain here (under UPDATE June 2, 2010) why I have one PDF folder (ALL PDFs). On my ipad, I’ve already synced up two folders (ALL PDFS and Downloaded books) with my goodreader or iAnnotate (using Aji Reader Service). I then open my email and copy the notes into my Mendeley document under “notes” in the meta-data field. iAnnotate is great because it gives you the text of your highlights organized by the color of your highlight. You can also email the document to yourself.ħ.) I then email myself the entire summary of my highlights - PICTURE 4 below. Hit the arrow UP button below to upload for itunes. I will sync it to my iannotate folder that sites on dropbox or you can prepare it for an itunes upload next time you plug your ipad into your mac. If you don’t need to highlight or draw on your pdfs or books, then goodreader is the best app to use on your ipad or iphone!Ħ.) you will then see your marked up iAnnotate file PICTURE TWO below Let’s open Philip Agre’s Real Time Politics: The Internet and the Political Process PICTURE ONE BELOWĥb- or sync ipad with itunes on mac and then drag the file into iAnnotateĥc - sometimes I want to read the file asap on my iphone so then I will sync it to goodreader but I try not to do this because you can’t highlight in goodreader. open dropbox on ipad and open file in iAnnotate. If you are an Apple idisk user, leave your dropbox folder inside your idisk folder as a double back up.)ĥa. I explain here how to set up your Mendeley under Update Jso that your file is automatically renamed and copied into a folder for all your PDFsģ.) delete the file from my downloads folder (delete it because if you’ve followed up the directions from the link above Mendeley will have already created a new file with new name)Ĥ.) it will sync with dropbox (you need to have dropbox set up - this is super easy! just sign up for it and leave all your files in your dropbox from now on. When I find an ACADEMIC PDF to download from Google Scholar:ġ.) starting on my laptop - I go to google scholar (represented by firefox icon) - I download the article into a downloads folder on my laptopĢ.) and drag the file into Mendeley Desktop on my laptop. Below I explain what I do when I encounter these files. I deal with either 1.) ACADEMIC PDFS from journals - which means that it already includes meta-data OR 2.) DOWNLOADED BOOKS from Amazon Kindle or downloading book sites. So there are two different routes that I can take depending on the source of my material. It is totally behind on ipad and iphone apps dev - but I assume that the people up in London have out-sourced this to a good company and will be delivering an app soon? Mendeley’s current ipad and iphone is only useful to look up citations and notes you can’t make changes to it or view papers attached to it. It’s not perfect, but it’s been the best thing out there that I could find for academic citation. ![]() If you didn’t already know - I’m a fan of Mendeley and I’ve written ad naseum about it - I’ve been trying to get all my colleagues in the research world to switch over. No more hoping that there is enough ink in the printer. No more shipping books back and forth between both coasts. ![]() After talking with Susan and then looking at Graham Webster’s academic workflow, I offer you my process on how to deal with pdfs, citations, and academic books.Ī big part of my process now involves the ipad! I got it for the same exact reasons as Lokman Tsui -it was really so that I could deal with the massive amounts of pdfs and books that I am unable to carry and don’t want to lug around This has been a life changer. ![]() I’ve been meaning to write about my academic work flow for a long time as it’s something that I’ve been trying to figure out. ![]()
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