Metadata for highlights?

DEVONthink
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Is there a way to tell when I highlighted a bit of text in a PDF that I have stored in DTP? I worked with this PDF a while back and made some highlights, but didn’t take the time then to add actual notations. With all the information that DEVONthink keeps track of, I’m hoping that it can tell me when I added those highlights.

(Note to self: don’t highlight anything if you’re not going to add a note that touches on the reason. I was taught this when I was in school way back when, but I’ve gotten slack over the years.)

Thank you.

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See Document > Annotations inspector. You might have to enable the optional Date column if it’s not visible.

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Thank you, cgruneberg. I see that highlights I’ve added today are documented as you describe. It turns out that the problem with the other highlights are that they were actually made on the PDF prior to bringing it into DTP! So it’s no surprise that DTP didn’t have a record of my having added the highlights.

Your advice helped me get this sorted out.