In article <565b88db-0aec-4271-a93c-b497aaf67de8@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, growth2007@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello All > > > I want to write notes and comments while reading each book and article > on a research topic. In each of the notes files, I will want to > highlight 4 or 5 passages relevant to a sub-topic. For example, on > reading a book about Politics in Pakistan, I may want to highlight a > paragraph of three or four sentences which relate to the sub-topic > 'Bhutto's Education'. (I might label that sub-topic BHUTED if a short > keyword is preferable.) But my of notes also contains several other > passages on different sub-topics - eg Pakistani Elections, Nuclear > Weapons, etc. Each of these need to be highlighted, tagged in some > way, for future recall. And there will be further instances of > 'Bhutto's Education' scattered through my notes on other books and > articles which I have studied. How can I recall all the passages of > notes tagged 'Bhutto's Education' into one new file, with the > bibliographic information given for each of the different passages. In > other words I don't want a list of all the files in which 'Bhutto's > Education' is referenced, but a new, single file which shows the > relevant passages and the file in which they first appear. > > Many thanks for any suggestions you may have!
In addition to DevonThink (which didn't work for me, sorry Annard) you might want to look at the free java based program called TextCite.
http://textcite.sourceforge.net/
which manages passages from text, links them to bibliographic entries in Endnote and other works, and allows tagging with key words, categories, and the like, lets you do full text searches, and will export them as RTF for easy pasting as styled text into a word processor.
