Thanks @Bill_DeVille for your reply… Didn’t mean to misrepresent you re: the ‘one thought - one notecard’ school!
I’ve been trying out the aforementioned annotation scripts, including the Annotation template. So far, this is my impression of the template and the two scripts…
-The Annotation template is fine for creating some of the basic parameters for an annotation document, with the title, user (though I don’t need that part), time and date of create, and ID of source document (as well as the comment icon that it graphs into the source file). But I find that the template is limited by the way in which one is able to copy multiple quotes and linking to them to the source document (i.e., using Copy Item Link and the “cue string” to ID the text).
-Alternatively, the “QuoteHighlight&Annotate script” [url]QuoteHighlight&Annotate script] seems to be much easier to use with copying multiple quotes and linking to them in the source documents. Actually, @Frederiko has been helping me w/ annotation scripts, and he said there might be a way to add / create more of the Text links for that script, so that it actively highlights the quoted/selected text when you click on the link (a positively brilliant feature – one in which he credited @korm for it’s creation). It’s hard to emphasize how valuable that feature is…it just saves so much time by quickly zipping to that exact part of the text, and flashing it with a quick highlight. Such a great feature, so I’m hoping that comes to fruition soon…
-Finally, the “Make annotation files for each citation plus notes+tags” script [url]Make an Annotation with Links, Notes, Tags v2] is a brilliant for creating an annotation note via Pashua, and setting up a useful Tagging taxonomy that relates to the annotation file, and flexibility for placing the note in a particular area. However, for whatever reason it seems that the “QuoteHighlight&Annotate script” handles UTF-8 conversion problems better than the “…citation plus notes+tags” script.
So…
I was hoping I could use the “Make annotation files for each citation plus notes+tags” to set up my primary annotation file (along w/ corresponding Tags, etc.), and then use the “QuoteHighlight&Annotate script” for copying multiple quotes and linking to them in the source documents. But I was told this is not possible – that it has to be one approach or the other.
That’s why I started this post in the first place. I was wondering if there’s a way to somehow synthesize these features – or if there’s another approach that I ought to consider altogether. Again, even though much has written on annotation in the DTP forum, it seems approaches toward using them might be changing with these script developments.
I’m happy to consider other technical or workflow suggestions w/ annotation… Thanks!