Any way to search (and smart-group) items that have Skim not

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I have many PDFs with Skim notes. Is there a way to (a) find PDFs that have any Skim notes, and (b) search the contents of those Skim notes?

Thanks!

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Do you know whether Skim stores the notes in the PDF or whether it stores it in its own database. If the latter, then you have trouble.

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Skim notes are generally stored in the PDF’s extended attributes. There is a framework for allowing your application to read,write, append skim notes to PDFs.

sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/files/

(in the folder labelled “SkimNotes framework and tool”)

even though I didn’t start this post, this would be terrific. BibDesk currently has this feature and it is a great way to refine searches in a way that improves relevance (after all, if it wasn’t relevant, I wouldn’t have highlighted it or made a note about it!)