Greetings. I’m not sure if this can be done, but I’d like to tag a sentence, not a whole document. If I have a 40 page pdf as a reference, I want to tag a particular sentence so I can go straight to that sentence vs. reading 40 pages.
Thanks,
Ray
That’s not possible. One workaround might be to create a link to that page (via the contextual menu) and to insert this link e.g. into a rich text document.
Thanks Christian. I’ll consider the hyperlink. It seems it would be easier to insert a note and put my own tag in the comment. It wouldn’t be a DT tag per se, it would be my own. For example, I would add a note and insert #etymology.
Well, I just tried that. I opened a pdf in DT editor, inserted a note, added #etymology. I saved and closed the pdf. Then, I searched for #etymology and…nothing popped up. The search for all didn’t pull it up; neither did search for metadata.
Doesn’t DT search comments and notes on a pdf?
Thank you,
Ray
No, Annotations are not indexed and searchable.
By the way, non-alphanumerics aren’t searchable either, so the # in your Tag wouldn’t work.
Also, as an aside, a prefix is not required for Tagging. It’s actually a convention left over pre-OpenMeta then Finder Tags. If it makes sense for you (or you have other apps that require it), feel free to use them, but it’s not necessary.
And as a hint: Future changes may make this even less necessary to you. 
True, but as know prefixed tags are very common in social media (hashtags) and have carried over to several “modern” apps. TaskPaper uses @tags, which have syntactical meaning. Bear uses hashtags, etc.
Thanks all. I’ll call off the effort to tag sentences.
Bullfrog’s got me curious about this not being necessary in the future. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Signing Off,
Best,
Ray