On 12 May 2009, at 7:33 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: > I just found from this closed RFE: > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1693968&group_id=192583&atid=941984 > > That highlights can be renamed (by right-clicking or click-pause- > clicking on the name of a highlight - by default the name of a > highlight is the text highlighted), and the new name can be used as a > "tag." That works well, as does naming the title of an anchored note > (or the body of an anchored note) after the "tag." > > However, when I search for the tag in Spotlight, two problems emerge: > 1)it only seems to show up if Skim is set up to generate .skim files > or the file is saved as a PDF bundle (.pdfd). Does Spotlight not > search EAs, then?
Skim only has a Spotlight importer for .skim files and .pdfd bundles. The importer for PDF files is owned by the system. I've tried to override it in Skim's importer, but it's simply ignored (unless you force the system to use it). Feel free to file a bug report with Apple to make it possible to override the system's importers. > 2)when the file is double-clicked in Spotlight, Skim opens up the PDF > and searches the *PDF text* for the Spotlight search term, not the > *Annotations* for the search term, whereas the intended behavior would > be to search in the domain that the text was discovered (in this case, > the annotations). Can this be fixed, or is this impossible to do? It is simply not known whether Spotlight matched information from the PDF or the notes. So what's the 'intended' behavior is simply not know (if Skim would use the Notes search field instead, you'd complain when you used spotlight to find some text in the PDF, wouldn't you?) So neither approach would be 100% right, but the current behavior would have the largest chance to get it right. > Last, is there any application other than BibDesk (well, and > Spotlight) that allows for searching of Skim notes content? I note > that EagleFiler and DevonThink have some rudimentary support, but > neither seems to search the content of the notes. > > Thanks! > -AHM I use neither, but I've certainly read that EagleFiler uses their own importers for searching PDF, which includes Skim Notes. Christiaan > On 2009-05-12, at 10:19 AM, Bill Mohler wrote: > >> I think, from my experience, that Christiann's suggestion of adding >> text-tags (e.g. [xyz] ) to the text of the note is the best approach. >> You can add them to highlight and other "quoting" notes as well as >> your own notes. >> >>> On 12 May 2009, at 6:54 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: >>> >>>> Folks- >>>> >>>> I've been thinking about and discussing with some of my colleagues >>>> different workflows that involve Skim and/or BibDesk. One of them >>>> asked if annotations could be tagged or have any other type of >>>> metadata associated with them; for example, if one is going through >>>> documents looking for quotes from a particular person, each quote >>>> could be highlighted and tagged. Then a file (or multiple files, if >>>> doing this from BibDesk) could be searched for that particular tag >>>> separate from the content of the actual highlighting. >>>> >>> >>> No, there's no support for annotation tags possible. See the various >>> closed RFEs. >>> >>>> It occurred to me that there is already some metadata associated >>>> with >>>> annotations (color, line width, etc.), so this might be an easily >>>> extensible property of skim notes. Or it might be a pain to >>>> implement, >>>> or impossible, or not worth it. >>>> >>> >>> Impossible, as we won't diverge any more from the PDF specs. >>> >>>> Thoughts? Are there suggestions for ways this could be done within >>>> the >>>> existing program that I'm entirely unaware of? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -AHM >>> >>> No, unless you count adding some text to the text associated to a >>> note >>> and using the search field. >>> >>> Christiaan >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! >>> Your >>> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but >>> thanks to >>> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! 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