marking up documents

[phancy]

I'm a law student trying to read as much as I can on my tablet so I
don't have to print things out. Combining Journal and OneNote together
is pretty good; I think it could be made better. I have a sense of what
I would like to do; is it possible?

I have to read, highlight and mark up cases with lots of marginal
notes, along with "flags" next to important sections. I love OneNote's
ability to extract information you've flagged in your own writing to
one document, but I would like a program that can take text that you've
highlighted and flagged and combine it into a document.

The reason OneNote won't work is that printing to OneNote produces a
background image, and when you flag some highlighted text and get a
Notes Summary page, it just gets your highlighting, none of the
underlying text.

Reading on the tablet is not tons more efficient than reading on paper.
After I mark up sections, I still have to go back over my marked up
sections and make a list of the important points. Once I've marked
something as important it seems like a program should be able to put it
all in a list for me.

Does anyone know of anything that can do this?

 

[Kathy J]

How are you doing your highlighting? Reason I ask is that I have found the
ability to use the background coloring of the note flags to work fairly well
as highlighting, plus it has the advantage of ensuring that the noteflag
summary has the text and the note. However, it has the disadvantage of
pulling the whole paragraph to the summary (because of how noteflags work).
To change the highlight/background color of the marked text, customize the
note flag - you will see the text color change and the highlight/background
color change options on the dialog.


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[Grant Robertson]

I have to read, highlight and mark up cases with lots of marginal
notes, along with "flags" next to important sections. I love OneNote's
ability to extract information you've flagged in your own writing to
one document, but I would like a program that can take text that you've
highlighted and flagged and combine it into a document. ..
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Does anyone know of anything that can do this?

In your case I would actually recommend using Word 2003 and using ink
annotations or ink comments. I can't tell you how to get a report of all
the annotations but I know you can do it even if you have to write a
macro. At least it is doable. What you want is not doable with OneNote.
If you get your documents in Acrobat format it is possible to add
annotations if you have the full version but you would have to use the
Tablet PC's TIP to convert your handwriting directly to text for the
annotation. Plus there is no easy way to do anything other than print
your annotations. Therefore, you would be better off getting one of those
programs that will convert .PDF files into Word documents. It's cheaper
than the full version of Acrobat too.