The Annotations Inspector is SO TEMPTING!! But (so far as I can tell) it only lets you create one Annotations file per underlying document. My needs are more complicated. Let’s say I’m working with the Declaration of Independence. Maybe I want the following notecards on it:
- “Complaints against the King.”
[various quotes emphasizing specific complaints against the King] - “Concept of Human Rights”
[various quotes on conception of human rights, and my own thoughts on how they connect to larger developments in political theory at the time] - “Jefferson’s characteristic style”
[various quotes showing classic Jeffersonian turns of phrase, focused on the rhetoric of the document rather than on the substance]
Those are three very different “notecard” documents, and I’d like to be able to organize each in a very different part of my working DevonThink outline. But I’d like them all to link back to the same underlying source document. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t think that the Annotation Inspector lets me create multiple distinct documents suitable for that kind of “short chunk” sorting across multiple folders. Rather it will leave me with one (typically bulky) annotation file for any document.
Am I missing something? Because you are right! The “Annotation Inspector” feature seems SO TEMPTING, but . . . just not quite right.