Tablet PC Inking and Scientific Journals Reference Management

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    Default Tablet PC Inking and Scientific Journals Reference Management

    I'm hoping I can find like some like-minded individuals on this forum. Anyone doing research and using a Tablet PC?

    My current job involves reading lots of journal papers (PDF files with images). One thing that I am encountering which was not part of college was reference management. With literally hundreds of paper, one needs to use reference management software, stuff like Mendeley, OneNote, etc... The problem is that I cannot find a satisfactory solution to integrate the whole inking/writing feature with reference management software. Here's what I've got so far:

    1) Most reference management software (Endnote, Mendeley) have no support for writing on Tablet PC whatsoever. I could possibly open the PDFs for my papers and edit them with some software like PDF Annotator, but my experience with PDF Annotator is that it is slow and clunky.

    2) Only one reference management software supports inking is Qiqqa. However, the inking is really rudimentary. I cannot change the thickness of the pen and the default thickness is way too thick to make any kind of annotation whatsoever.

    3) My other option is to print out all my PDFs to OneNote and ink directly there. However, there would be no synchronization of my annotated PDFs with my reference management software.

    If there any researchers using Tablet PC out there, have you been able to satisfactorily combine the inking experience on a Tablet PC with reference management softwares?

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    I use Zotero + Bluebeam PDF revu. The integration is seamless since I have my default PDF viewer set to Revu, I just open the pdf straight from zotero (which stores its files locally) edit, and save. When I next open the same paper again all my annotations are there.

 

 

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