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A way to gather links to various paragraphs in various pdfs
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Posted by Lucine
Mar 17, 2024 at 08:37 PM
I’m currently studying and need to consult various pdfs on any given topic. Bookmarking PDF doesn’t work since previous bookmarks take up space and the list of bookmarks gets confusing. Is there a good app to store various locations in various PDFs in one place/by topic and then open the PDFs jumped to the relevant part when you go explore a topic and your written notes on it? So basically like a link to specific parts of various pdfs, maybe even offline html or doc paragraphs. Does such a thing exist? I know logseq and siyuan let you upload a pdf and when you put a reference to the highlight inside the pdf, it jumps to that part. But for some reason I still found it hard to organize the snippets per topic. Please let me know if there are other more advanced solutions to this. This is for windows or web.
Posted by Lucas
Mar 17, 2024 at 09:17 PM
There is also RemNote, which functions similarly to LogSeq in this regard.
You could also check out Zotero, Mendeley, and Citavi, and see if any of them meet your needs. But I have yet to find a satisfactory tool for this. (In my case, interoperability is also a concern, since not all PDF tools store highlights in the same way.)
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 18, 2024 at 08:58 AM
Heh, if you were working on Mac/iPad, I’d recommend MarginNote (marginnote.com), but I’m not aware of an equivalent on Windows.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 18, 2024 at 09:01 AM
Actually, I’d forgotten about LiquidText, which is also available for Windows. It uses a slightly different model from MarginNote, but does much the same thing: https://www.liquidtext.net
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Another possibility to look into is Heptabase. See this video (I’ve cued up the appropriate time slot in the video), which demonstrates how to extract text from a PDF and get a link back to the original:
https://youtu.be/HgvR2QkfwG0?si=fm9KiTe101ur24-t&t=760
Steve