Having followed this thread - 34,000+ views - for a long time before buying the program - yay!
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I can tell that the ideas described therein will be a long time in the making.
Feel disappointed as, from the discussion, while though it seems the primary market for the product is business and engineering - I'm still struck by what use Peter28 - memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=103296 wrote five years after his original post:
The problem I have is to remember all what I read and make it quickly accessible for future reference. When I read a book in the past, I made (handwritten) notes, which is a lot of (copy down) work.
Somehow, to me, the market share represented by people who need to remember what they've read seems...as large, if not larger. I, like Peter, am in that same group.
Looking at the thread I can tell that this is a HUGE undertaking as the advocates - myself included - have got it envisioned. Currently I don't have the technical background to write a working plugin.
However, I have an idea that could take LOTS of folks a lot closer along the way to having pdfx get out of its own way along that road to helping folks remember what they've read. Tell me what you think. Please can you add a feature that pastes text without line breaks?
For example, if I have a long quote I want to recall and need to port over to a flashcard system or any other means of recalling, right now for Copy & Paste I'd get:
The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately
opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social
Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by
society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in
general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age
by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question
of the future. It is so far from being new, that in a certain sense, it has divided
mankind, almost from the remotest ages; but in the stage of progress into which the
other states and societies now find themselves, it presents itself under
new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment.
Instead of:
The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages; but in the stage of progress into which the other states and societies now find themselves, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment.
And, I'd be obliged to go through the text and manually - or in the case of Sumnotes, for a fee - have the seven linebreaks removed.
Now, if I was fortunate enough to try to give Plato's Republic another go...that clocks in a 454 pages, small font.
I'll find lots of GREAT quotes I may just want to grab at the moment...and...each time I'll need to...
copy-paste-excise linebreaks
Sure! I can go to word and run search and replace! But...after about the 25th time...that get's counter-productive to the thinking I need to do.
The same with exporting comments...exporting comments without linebreaks would be a BIG step forward - though I've found workaround - basically exporting to excel and then through a bulk search and replace and... LOTS of steps. All based around the idea that...I need to get the linebreaks out of the things I've highlighted in order to be able to use them.
I've got it down to a fair science! But, it often falls to pieces when...I need just a wee few copy pastes. And...then I'm back to:
copy-from pdfx
paste in word
bulk find and replace
open third destination file
close word or..leave it open?
Keep reading.
copy-from pdfx
paste in word
bulk find and replace
open third destination file
close word or..leave it open?
Keep reading...
So, I encourage a copy and paste feature that removes all linebreaks in the paste.
If, in doing this, it could be easily achieved for a Export Comments without line breaks, even better!
Here's what I'm using pdfx for - reading and remembering. And, whether it's Plato's Republic (454 pages) or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (432)...there's LOTS I'd like to be able to recall at my fingertips.
I can accept that, for the time being, pdfx wont be delivering the fingertips part via tagging. It's a big ask!
But, REALLY encourage you to add in the cut and paste without line breaks (and summarize comments without line breaks). It would be a HUGE step forward to helping me learn the things I do not yet know, or may have forgotten.
How does that sound?
BXR