NOOKstudy - Organize and add notes to PDFs, also general note taking

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Posted by JasonE
Jan 23, 2011 at 12:46 AM

One of my students just told me about NOOKstudy. She was ranting and raving about how well it allows her to manage her notes from class.

An endorsement from a non-crimper is an endorsement indeed!

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp

I just downloaded it imported one of my ebooks.

I haven’t played much, but I can see buttons and windows for notes and tags.

JasonE

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Posted by JasonE
Jan 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM

One thing I forgot to mention:

It is very much orientated towards college students. But structurally, there doesn’t appear to be any reason it won’t work for anyone who uses PDFs.

JasonE

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 25, 2011 at 09:20 PM

Thanks for the recommendation, Jason - I’ve been experimenting with it, and as somebody who deals with translations a lot, I’m actually very favourably impressed. The only downside is its insistence on synchronising with the online (Amazon-hosted) B&N service. I’m afraid I regard the cloud with the gravest suspicion, and prefer to hold all my crucial documents/info on my own servers (outside e.g. US jurisdiction).

But NOOKstudy has some very nice features: notably extreme simplicity and a nice, powerful search function, coupled with the side-by-side view that is so crucial for translators. A very difficult thing to achieve in most info management tools, for some reason (one honourable exception being UltraRecall, although I’ve tried to grow fond of UltraRecall on many, many occasions and never succeeded - I always end up abandoning it with a sense of relief!).

To store texts in parallel I’m currently experimenting with Kerio Workspace, which has a very powerful Boolean search function. But it doesn’t support in-page highlighting of search results, which is a shame - although the wonderful (and free!) Plone does, and has recently been substantially improved by the release of version 4.

My other favourite simple, solid, stable outliner is EssentialPIM. There are one or two idiosyncrasies (including a basic flaw in the search function which I’ve pointed out to the very nice developers several times since about version 1.5, but which still persists even in the latest version). But there’s nothing faster for editing and storing huge quantities of text, and it also has a very nice HTML export function, which means you can turn selected notes into an instant reference sheet (complete with table of contents). Now if it only supported folding…

Cheers,
Bill

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