This is an example sentence that I would like to highlight.
#Docear ipad pdf#
The main challenge with PDF is that it isn’t a markup language like HTML that will explicitly tell you how text should be rendered. In fact, as near as I can tell, there is no existing open source or commercial solution that can reliably extract the 100% text accurately from all documents. I won’t get into the nitty-gritty details here, but what would seem a simple operation of extracting highlighted text from a PDF turns out to be exceedingly difficult depending on what strategy you use. I dove down the deep rabit hole of reviewing the ~ 1,000 page Adobe PDF specification, hacked and tinkered with Perl and Java code, reviewed numerous open source and commercial offerings, and have emerged (slightly scathed but wiser) with some good solutions. It turns out this IS possible, but it is no where near as simple as I initially hoped. I could TRIPLE the number of books I read and create summaries for almost all of them!”. I thought to myself, “Hey, it would be great if I could somehow extract all my highlighted text just like Kindle.
Starting a couple months ago it got even better by supporting PDF highlighting and annotations.
Not only can you take all of your documents on the go, you can access remotely using WebDAV, Google Docs, DropBox, Email, and other online services. GoodReader is a full-featured document reader with some powerful features. This is REALLY useful for accelerating the summarizing process and the beauty of it is that it’s automatic – the extraction just works! Around the time I started using Kindle for iPad I discovered a fantastic PDF Document reader called GoodReader. After using Kindle for a short time I was blown away by the feature that let’s you highlight book passages and get summaries of the highlighted text and page number (The direct URL is. I’ve been gradually accumulating more digital books (using PDFs and purchasing books through Amazon using Kindle). It can take a lot of time, but the process of highlighting, reviewing, and creating the mindmap can significantly improve your recall and what you get out of a book (or any research project).Īnother big change happened earlier this year when I started using an iPad. What does highlighting have to do with MMOST? While I’m reading a book I’ll highlight the passages that stick out to me and use those as the basis for creating the mindmap summary.
#Docear ipad how to#
For a great intro to the MMOST technique, check out the post on How to Understand a Business Book in Four Hours. In a nutshell, MMOST is a strategy for quickly digesting books and summarizing what you’ve learned into a mindmap so you can recall or reference at a later date.
After all, what good are highlighting interesting bits of text if you don’t use them later? My highlight compulsion increased about 6 years ago when I dove head first into mindmapping and starting experimenting with a technique called MMOST (Mind Map Organic Study Technique). More often then not though many of those highlights would go to waste. Back in school I would, on occasion, highlight some interesting passages while doing homework or reading books and jot them down later. I never really considered myself a “highlighter” until a couple years ago.
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