The software has its own annotation feature built-in. Papers, my reference manager of choice, has a partial solution. More often than not, these annotations contain the very text I’m searching for. As far as Spotlight is concerned, they do not exist.įor me this is no trivial problem. Standard PDF annotations-both “sticky notes” and text “typed” on a page-are not indexed. A few carefully phrased searches is all it takes for instant recall. Thanks to Spotlight, a full-text keyword query can substitute for a laborious hunt for literature. Another is searchability: a large database of articles is a crutch for our fallible memories. Holdouts-and they are everywhere-print out forest-sized stacks of paper that teeter on crowded desks.įreedom from clutter is just one advantage of digital reading. Many academics now read journal articles on screen, as PDF files.
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