{"id":1060,"date":"2011-07-19T23:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:07:02","slug":"new-workflow-for-pdf-annotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/new-workflow-for-pdf-annotation\/","title":{"rendered":"nEver-ending search for pdf annotation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not happy with converting pdfs using Google docs so I can annotate them in Diigo – it’s too hard and looks lousy.<\/p>\n

So I’m trying Evernote<\/a>, which Everyone has been telling me to try for years. Of course, Everyone has a smart phone and I don’t. <\/p>\n

With Evernote the workflow for accessing a pdf I’ve annotated is two-step:<\/p>\n

1. Download PDF to a computer
\n2. Annotate it there (in Preview for Mac – at least Preview can do that in 10.5)
\n3. THEN put it into a Notebook in Evernote<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It holds the annotations so I can at least access an annotated document from Everywhere, even if I can’t annotate the document from Everywhere.<\/p>\n

However, this could be a Good Thing. It means I have to sit and annotate the whole pdf all at once. That involves focus and concentration, which aren’t a bad idea when reading an article with, say, a sustained argument.<\/p>\n

So in this case, the tool might be a little bulky for workflow, but as there’s no better way, I can take advantage of its Ever-attentive nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not happy with converting pdfs using Google docs so I can annotate them in Diigo – it’s too hard and looks lousy. So I’m trying Evernote, which Everyone has been telling me to try for years. Of course, Everyone has a smart phone and I don’t. With Evernote the workflow for accessing a pdf I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-online-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}