I use Summarize Highlights within DT3 extensively to collect highlighted text + Details (usually in the form of user defined comments for each text passage) from fairly long technical or scientific documents all located in DT3. My next step is to export of these text passages and references to Tinderbox to organise and eventually generate an outline which I use in writing my own documents.
Despite improvements to the Summarize Highlights output the process going from DT3 to Tinderbox is still rather clunky. Details on the steps followed can be found in this post in the Tinderbox Forum.
Now to my request. I suggest a 3rd option for Summarize Highlights in addition to RTF and Markdown which generates the output in CSV format. Why CSV ?
- CSV is a well recognised format and can be imported and further used in many 3rd party programmes (Excel, Tinderbox, DT Sheets ?)
- Summarise Highlights output maps readily into 3 columns (e.g. highlighted PDF text/annotation, page ref, Details)