macademic.org
Annotating PDFs with Highlights | Academic workflows on a Mac
https://macademic.org/2015/06/08/2693
Academic workflows on a Mac. For productive and enjoyable scholarship. Essential software for academic work on a Mac. The future of email: an empathy algorithm. Citing organisations in Papers 3.0 →. Annotating PDFs with Highlights. June 8, 2015. With those built-in capabilities as they may not be well aligned with our own flavour of note taking. In this constant and incremental “apps vs. user needs” matching exercise it is nice to see new offerings with a slightly different approach. I must admit I have ...
waitingforvacuum.com
Waiting for Vacuum: Tools
http://waitingforvacuum.com/tools
A GitHub wiki ( Gollum wiki. Is a personal wiki using Markdown syntax with some added sugar. The best thing about them is that they do not force you into a specific folder-structure. You organize your files, Gollum links them together and displays it. If you have a GitHub account (which you should) you can edit your wiki from the web and even share it with the world if you want to. PDF Reading and Annotating. Extension for quick highlighting ( Skim. If Preview is having a bad day). Diagramming and simple...
waitingforvacuum.com
Waiting for Vacuum: The PDF Problem
http://waitingforvacuum.com/2014/03/05/Solve-a-Real-Problem
I read PDFs for a living, sort of. Literature reviews are essential for doing research and most of the literature available online are in the form of PDFs. Some journals let you read articles as HTML, but these are rare and I have yet to come across a journal that format articles better as HTML than PDF. For years I have kept all the PDFs i find when doing literature reviews in an app called Papers. There are numerous alternatives (e.g. Mendeley. As my writing is mainly done in LaTeX. Therefore, I view m...
jonasribe.com
Jonas Ribe: About
http://jonasribe.com/about
Jonas is a PhD-candidate in biophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He does research in the field of microfluidics - making microchips which can automate tasks in biomedicine for point-of-care diagnostics. He is also the developer of Highlights. A Mac app for extracting PDF annotations to MultiMarkdown. This is a Jekyll. Website with static content written in Markdown. The website is hosted on GitHub pages. The design is done using the Twitter Bootstrap.
jonasribe.com
Jonas Ribe: Projects
http://jonasribe.com/projects
Jonas Ribe does research in the field of microfluidics. By controlling fluids in channels smaller than the width of a human hair his research group aims to make new types of biomedical platforms. These lab-on-a-chip devices can revolutionize the way diseases such as cancer are detected and treated.
storyneedle.com
customer journeys Archives - Story Needle
http://storyneedle.com/tag/customer-journeys
Content strategy for a post-device era. Books on Content Strategy. Tag Archives: customer journeys. August 13, 2015. PDFs don’t seem terribly interesting. Few people would say they love them, and more than a few would say they hate them. But PDFs can offer content strategists important insights into the needs of content users who want to build an understanding of a topic. In 2001, Jakob Nielsen pronounced: Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading. PDFs are for dinosaurs. No one reads PDFs. That book critiqued rig...
