thanks for clearing this up!

it's funny - I wanted my ereader to work like paper (just better) and so it does it's exactly how I would work on paper: note page number and text reference, then comment
this is certainly not a big deal - I can just give the text PDF and the journal PDF similar names like Smith_2000_txt and Smith_2000_jnl, save them in the same folder, problem solved. I'd rather have the pasting text snippets (either image or plain text) in the journal function and handwriting recognition than linked journals.