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Old 07-12-2010, 09:41 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
I've looked at Papers. It does almost half of what I need. iAnnotate does almost half of the rest. The bit inbetween is the ability to tag the annotations (whether highlighted text or scribbles) with terms that I can then use to search or build lists.

Let's say I read 12 journal articles. As I read, I highlight especially helpful quotes, and I tag some of them "cognitive development" and some "learning theory." I also make some margin annotations. I tag some of those "learning theory" and some "constructivism." Then I go on to the next article, reading, marking, and tagging.

At the end, I need to write a paper about learning theory. I want to poll my entire journal article set and ask for all the annotations or highlighted quotes that are tagged "learning theory," and get a list with:

- The quote or my annotation (scribble would be ok, HWR would be cool)
- The document title the snippet comes from
- The page of the document that the snippet comes from
- If at all possible, the document should be registered in a system (like Papers) that contains the author's name, journal name, volume, date, etc. and a bibliography entry should be generated for all the snippets I select and export.

So I run my query using boolean combinations of tags, check or uncheck a few of the items to get exactly the list I want, hit "export," and get an RTF document containing my snippets at the top, each followed by a correctly formatted inline citation, and an alphabetized list of bibliography entries in APA format.

I'd also like to be able to save searches for re-use or later reference.

Does that make sense?
yes it sure does. i know i can search for tagged terms in a document ill try doing a global search and get back to you
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