Paper2 offers highlighting by holding down the cmd key and it automatically copies the text as a quote over into the note pane, you can change the colour via rightclicking on the highlighted text. My experience so far has been as follows: My solution is to keep my references in Sente or Papers2 and do the annotations in Skim. However, none of these really do it for me. Papers2, Sente and Mendeley all offer the possibility of annotations in the form of highlight/notes.
Unfortunately there just isn’t a dream program out to do this with minimal fuss. It may not seem a lot but it does add up. I use two finger tip-tap for anchored notes (I usually put one at the very top of the paper to add random notes or a brief summary of the paper) and to undo (if I highlight the wrong thing etc…a peeve about Skim is that you can’t just keep enlarging a highlight like in preview for when you miss a word or two).īecause annotating is mainly a mouse related activity (in terms of highlighting, markup…not adding notes) I find it easier and much quicker to bypass the keyboard when I can – so having the hotkeys work as gestures (or mouse buttons- which is what I used to use) just makes the process seamless for how I work – I don’t have to move my hand over or think about pressing key combos so it’s a fraction of a second in switching between the different tools. Bettertouch tool lets me set gestures per program, so for Skim I use left and right tip-tap to select my two most frequent annotation tools (highlight and underline), three finger tap to select the arrow line (which i use to draw my attention quickly to main points). I actually hate trying to annotate without an external multi-buttoned mouse or my magic touchpad now. Points 3 and 4(i) are what ultimately made me give up on papers, even though it is so much more fairly priced than sente. This is what ultimately made me give up on papers, along with… (ii) hard to customise bibliography styles. (somewhat unrelated) (i) Unfortunately, when searching for authors or titles of documents, the papers search window is buggy – it does not always return all the documents in the library, even after double checking the search terms. This is very important so that when you print the resume of annotations, they are all in the right order.Ĥ. Whilst neither program is capable of correctly judging the correct order of highlights (especially when there is more than one highlight per page) and page numbers, sente at least allows you to change the order or page number of the annotation. This is especially useful for long documents.ģ. Graphs, diagrams and photos in documents cannot easily be annotated or put in the notes panel. Papers still does not have image annotation / clipping tools like sente.
This makes it useless for annotating ocr’ed documents where minor corrections are needed, or for inputing notes into the body of the quote itself, shortening it, etc…Ģ.
PDF ANNOTATION PROGAMS FOR MAC PDF
Once highlighted, the annotation text from the pdf is not editable. Unfortunately that’s not true (as good as their competitor).
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