Sunday, March 31, 2013

Use Adobe to mark-up Research

Start with downloading and installing Adobe Pro 7, or asking me about this.
Tools I Use


Configure this to your liking.  I change some menus and move things around a bit.  See the marked out Tools I Use (click the picture to open it large at right).  To do this "right click" on the menu bar on top with your mouse and then select the same as me, or pick your own as shown below.


This next figure here at right shows all that I selected in Menu Settings, just click the space for thh check to show or disappear:

Menu Settings

But more importantly is setting the comments for note taking as shown at right.  This is done with the "Comment Preferences" down at the bottom of the comments menu.  See the graphic of Comment Settings here where the critical elements are shown at right:


Further, while you are editing the preferences you might want to change a number of the Reader Settings on left.  When you have a PDF article, or create a PDF from Word or the Web you can open it in Acobat Pro, OCR the file (document menu) and then set the program to read it to you.  This is great when you are finalizing a paper to submit, so you can hear how it sounds.
Comment Settings



Of course, you can not highlight the same file that it reads to you.  Once done with the settings, open a your research article and highlight and markup anything you want. . .


I sometimes will use the "typewriter". . . more to provide ideas to others. Usually any notes I want on a research article I will put into the yellow highlight comment space to export later.


Reader Settings

To export them, go to the comments menu, and select comment summary.  Select the Comments Only option and your print out will only have what you highlighted the page numbers and dates you marked things.

Web2PDF Converter

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Shareaholic

Shareaholic | share with Google, Facebook and more :: Add-ons for Firefox: Shareaholic | share with Google, Facebook and more 3.0.1

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Shareaholic is the easiest way to share interesting links using Facebook, Twitter, Google Mail, Reader, Bookmarks, Evernote, Bitly, StumbleUpon, and more... from one simple ALL-IN-ONE add-on. This is the ultimate tool for the link sharing addict!

Using Shareaholic

Shareaholic is the easiest way to share interesting links and data onto this blog.

Each of these tool links I've started with on this blog, were "snatched" out of the existing webpage with this tool.

THIS MEANS:
  1. NO "cut" and "paste"
  2. No Copying
  3. No typing
ONLY select with the mouse, "right click" and  Select your target
Blogger in this case:

If you look at the bottom of the send window above you can see  "More Options" this is for adding other social media or other tools you want to send this clip too.

Xmarks Sync :: Add-ons for Firefox

This is another one I use constantly.  I install it immediately on every new machine I get so all my favorites are with everywhere always.  The best thing about it, it I never think about it again.  I bookmark something at work this morning, and now I can open it up at home.  Any change I make goes to all my machine. . . so it's a major time savor and tool... 

Xmarks Sync :: Add-ons for Firefox:
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