![]() ![]() I’m working on a process (through BBEdit with REGEX) to massage the “hidden” tags back out of the annotation envelope (converting ! to #hashtag some text !).ĪppleScript is your friend in handling all of this. The markdown export process hides the #hashtag in the annotation URL as !( … link reference …). I’m using #hashtag notations directly in the note field for the annotations themselves ( #why, #how, #result, #equation, #insight, #idea). I have a script in the Devonthink forums to handle the second two steps (in case anyone has textbundles in DT).įinally, Bookends and Highlights do not formally support tags on annotations (ZenReader does, as do MarginNote and LiquidText). textbundle extension on the folder (just to make the folder title cleaner in Obsidian) Assure that the internal file in the textbundle folder has an extension.Assure that the TextBundle is a folder not a package (through a shell setfile command).What remains to get the annotations properly into Obsidian (and Devonthink) is … This essentially means that I could bypass Devonthink as an intermediate translation step (but I will instead explore indexing the respective Obsidian folder in Devonthink). Highlights iPadOS will export annotations as a TextBundle to include all assets.Highlights macOS will export annotations as TextBundle to include all assets.Let’s see where this goes.Ĭontinuing my explorations, I’ve learned that … I see in the meantime that a plug-in exists to support markdown export. I have however been seriously put off by being locked in to its storage format. In my initial tests over a year ago, I found the annotation features in MarginNote to be exactly what I’ve wanted. Highlights has its own annoyances, but I can overlook them if it only exported the annotation set directly to markdown.Īs an aside, I will test MarginNote (since I have it) if only to discover whether annotations can be exported as markdown. ![]() ![]() A round-about way to meet the absolute requirement is to export the markdown to Devonthink and then export/link that content to Obsidian. → Highlights has an iPadOS app but does not meet the absolute requirement directly. ![]() It appears to be an electron app (which does not bother me). As a new kid, it is also rather clunky in its implementation. → Zenreader, the new kid on the block, meets my absolute requirement but does not currently have an iPad app. I have two current contenders, Highlights and Zenreader. It should be “light-weight” (meaning that it should just do annotating well and export its results, not also contain the mapping/studying features as in LiquidText or MarginNote). It should work dynamically to share with other i(Pad)OS and macOS apps such as Devonthink or Bookends. It should allow the user to add tags to the annotations. This is my make-or-break criterion (I am heading toward using Obsidian for the review process). It absolutely must allow the user to export the annotations as a markdown file, including images. It must allow the user to add notes to the annotations. It must allow highlighting and image-selection/capture as a minimum. I find this platform to be far more efficient for annotation and markup than working on macOS. I’m posting an opening for others I know on this forum who have comparable interests. although that seems like more fun.I am on a search for the next best PDF annotation app for my needs. I really want different colored highlights to get different markdown styles, etc.įor now, I'm trying to focus on actually working within the system. Strongly support that It would at least be very helpful to export all PDFs including the annotations at once such that annotations dont get lost in case. and so I've been looking at possible plugins that do the annotation import (or trying my hand at coding one myself!). Neither have much customization of the export markdown though. Annotate PDF - Easily highlight, underline, and strike out those parts. While pdfExpert is insanely professional, but maybe overkill to buy for just annotation. You can also crop, rotate, replace, extract or delete images. Highlights has a much cheaper subscription, and definitely feels like it's designed to just do one thing really well. but I'm mostly using my iPad for markup anyway. The free pdfExpert iOS version seems to be pretty full featured for annotation although the Mac version has a few more limitations. Yeah the subscription makes me nervous too (pdfExpert does have an outright purchase option, but it's pretty expensive - and is per device rather than universal). ![]()
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