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Posted by Ken
Dec 21, 2010 at 01:07 AM
Nice post, Neville. I am glad that you are both thinking about access and safety of customer data. I also have an Android OS phone, and it certainly is convenient to have access to data on it, through the web or on my PC at home. One approach that was recommended on the forum here was ResophNotes/SimpleNote/Android Client (several are available). Granted this is only for text notes, but it is the best of all worlds. I have copies on my PC/the web/Android phone and they all sync together. There is no weak link in this arrangement. If you could pull this off for web-based information. I wish you all the best as you move ahead.
—Ken
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 22, 2010 at 12:30 AM
>I started trying Surfulator out for this today.
>This
>is my work flow:
>
>Open PDF, copy title. Close PDF.
>Make a new article (texts and
>authors version) in a relevant folder in Surfulator.
>Paste title into “title”
>field.
>Drag and drop PDF file into “attachments” field.
>Surfulator asks if I want to
>paste or make link.
>I tell it to paste.
>Move the copy of the PDF in the original folder
>into the waste basket. (This step would probably not be necessary
>if I cut/paste PDF
>in rather than drag/drop it in)
>Add whatever keywords or notes that are
>appropriate.
>Repeat with next PDF…
>
>JasonE
Thanks for clarifying. I also have over a 1000 PDFs, so I’m always on the look-out for new ways of organising them. However, it sound like Surfulater would be rather time-consuming to use to organise hundreds or thousands of PDFs.
Fortunately most of my PDFs are academic articles and so it’s easy to download bibliographic metadata as well as to organise with EndNote. Indeed, the latest generation of EndNote, Mendeley and probably other bibliographic software now can automatically extract metadata directly from PDF files. It’s not always perfect but involves a lot fewer steps then let’s say doing the same with Surfulater. On the other hand in Surfulater you have the benefit of tree hierarchies, while in EndNote all you can do is groups. It would be great if Surfulater could import academic bibliographic data and PDFs with one click… It would become a serious rival to EndNote (with its hierarchies and tags).
Posted by Neville Franks
Dec 22, 2010 at 06:44 AM
Hi Ken,
Thanks for the reply and heads up. We are very much on the same wavelength.
Ken wrote:
>Nice post, Neville. I am glad that you are both thinking about access and safety of
>customer data. I also have an Android OS phone, and it certainly is convenient to have
>access to data on it, through the web or on my PC at home. One approach that was
>recommended on the forum here was ResophNotes/SimpleNote/Android Client (several
>are available). Granted this is only for text notes, but it is the best of all worlds. I
>have copies on my PC/the web/Android phone and they all sync together. There is no weak
>link in this arrangement. If you could pull this off for web-based information. I wish
>you all the best as you move ahead.
>
>—Ken
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 24, 2010 at 04:20 PM
>Thanks for clarifying. I
>also have over a 1000 PDFs, so I’m always on the look-out for new ways of organising
>them. However, it sound like Surfulater would be rather time-consuming to use to
>organise hundreds or thousands of PDFs.
IMHO there are other programs out there, better suited to organising PDFs. UltraRecall for one, can automatically import all files in a directory and index them on the way; as far as I know it won’t extract the metadata though. Another option is Archivarius, mentioned elsewhere by Quant.
For me Surfulater is unrivaled in its integration with the popular browsers (not Opera unfortunately) and it’s great for collecting web content that one wants to organise and use further. If some kind of web sync/access is made available, this would be brilliant.