On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Derick Fay wrote: > I just looked at Scrivener for the 1st time last week, & one aspect > that I really like is the ability to view a set of documents (notes) > as if they were a single document. But as you point out, it's not > well set-up for co-authoring.
This is the piece I was most interested in implementing in a BibDesk- Skim-Editor environment. Scrivener lets you order your notes and then view and further edit in both individual notes and document views. For my workflow, it might not be necessary to break the document apart again once you have the notes fully annotated and in the right order. At that point you could export the note data to an editor as a foundation for the first and subsequent drafts. You may lose something in not being able to automatically sandwich in new notes during the drafting process (I'm not really sure it's that much of a loss, though) but you also gain significantly by being able to use any editor you want and share the draft for collaborative writing. > I suspect this is going to run into the limitations posed by Skim > relying on PDFKit -- I don't expect the notes can contain they > keyword metadata etc. necessary to do this, so an addl. app. probably > is necessary. Right. Also, at the point you're manipulating notes, you're looking across multiple documents and Skim isn't really designed for that. BibDesk is, and you could consider putting tools for manipulating and organizing Skim notes into BibDesk, or you might consider another app designed for this purpose that worked well with BibDesk and Skim. Jim Harrison UVa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
