I am at the early start of a research project which (like hundreds of other projects) will most likely have me read and comment on 200-500 scientific papers before getting 'that idea' and writing together my own drivel.
What I am surprised by is that with thousands of other people having a similar problem, there doesn't seem to be a comment management system yet, that takes full use of the Adobe functionality.
Citavi is in my view the best one, but their file management system puts it all within their system. What I am looking for ideally is a system that ties a table to a PDF file. In Adobe Acrobat Reader you can export comments into an FDF file, my ereader likewise creates a PSL file to manage annotations which essentially are all kept in an additional layer put over the original file.
My hunch would be it should be possible to create a list of commetns of the type
<filename>, <commentauthor>, <page>,<location_on_page/line>,<keywords>,<comment> and have it all as a database, knowledgebase whatever you name it relative to a full folder with files.
I am unfortunately no programmer, but could imagine that such a plugin would find dozens of other researchers desperately trying to make all their comments searchable.
Any ideas on tools I might have overlooked or workarounds of other tools I might consider ?
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