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Am I just dumb, or is RightNote total rubbish?
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Posted by WSP
Jan 16, 2014 at 09:48 PM
This discussion is way over my head, as usual, but I’ll try to respond briefly. As I understand it, RightNote uses method B in your list. In other words, it imports and indexes the underlying plain text, but it does not import the PDF itself. This seems to me a better way of dealing with the problem than Evernote’s trick up swallowing up the entire PDF, because that means your Evernote file can become enormous in a hurry if you’re importing many PDFs. RightNote will, if you ask it, also show the plain text of an entire PDF. That’s handy once in a while.
I agree that RightNote seems rather clunky at times, and I wish I could find another way to do quick searches in groups of PDFs. Perhaps you or others here will have some suggestions. Of course I’m aware that I can use the search box in Windows Explorer, but that only produces a list of files, not snippets of actual text. I need the latter.
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 16, 2014 at 10:18 PM
WSP wrote:
>I agree that RightNote seems rather clunky at times, and I wish I could
>find another way to do quick searches in groups of PDFs. Perhaps you or
>others here will have some suggestions. Of course I’m aware that I can
>use the search box in Windows Explorer, but that only produces a list of
>files, not snippets of actual text. I need the latter.
You could put the groups of PDFs into separate folders and then use PDF-Xchange Viewer to just search the PDFs in that particular folder. PDF-Xchange Editor can do the same, with some extra search functions. Same could be also done with Agent Ransack, with the added benefit being that the contents of the entire paragraph are shown where the search term occurs.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 16, 2014 at 10:56 PM
Btw, Agent Ransack has had an update recently, first time in 3 yrs:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/history
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 17, 2014 at 11:14 AM
While I too love and prefer PDF-Xchange Viewer, it’s worth mentioning that you can also use the standard Acrobat reader to search through a folder plus all its subfolders.
Interesting to hear about that RightNote feature, however: I don’t rate the program very highly, but that rather clever simple-text function sounds quite cool. As long as it supports accented characters, that is (all too frequently a weakness of outliners and the major reason I don’t use Surfulater).
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by tightbeam
Jan 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM
Given the choice you pose, I would say that RightNote is not total rubbish.