{"id":1820,"date":"2011-07-31T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2011-07-31T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T13:01:02","slug":"papers2-does-not-integrate-with-external-ipad-applications-in-the-way-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/papers2-does-not-integrate-with-external-ipad-applications-in-the-way-i-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers2 does not integrate with external iPad applications in the way I expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Papers2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mekentosj.com\/papers\/\">Papers2<\/a> does not integrate with external iPad applications in the way I expected.\u00a0I use iPad applications like GoodReader, iAnnotatePDF, and PDFExpert\u00a0to read and annotate papers.<\/p>\n<p>The functionality I expected was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Export from Papers to an external PDF annotation application<\/li>\n<li>When I reopen Papers, the annotated PDF is shown in my library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, here is what happens:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Export from Papers\u00a0to an external PDF annotation application. It renames the file, using a random string as the filename.<\/li>\n<li>When I reopen Papers, only the original (unannotated) PDF is in my library.<\/li>\n<li>Alternately when I export from the external application, the annotated file is imported as a *new* PDF, unconnected to the original, with a random string used for the filename.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I started using Papers because managing filenames in iAnnotate wasn&#8217;t working: I couldn&#8217;t figure out which files were which. So this is absolutely key for me.<\/p>\n<p>==<\/p>\n<p>This is a bug report to\u00a0<a title=\"Papers2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mekentosj.com\/papers\/\">Papers2<\/a>, copied here since bug reports are private.\u00a0Any workarounds or suggestions for alternate annotation\/reference management workflows would be very welcome.<\/p>\n<p>This annotation environment completely failed to meet my expectations:\u00a0I expected to &#8216;Open In&#8217; an annotation application; in fact there&#8217;s just &#8216;Export&#8217; and &#8216;Import&#8217;, meaning that the annotated file isn&#8217;t automatically stored in the Papers2 library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papers2 does not integrate with external iPad applications in the way I expected.\u00a0I use iPad applications like GoodReader, iAnnotatePDF, and PDFExpert\u00a0to read and annotate papers. The functionality I expected was: Export from Papers to an external PDF annotation application When I reopen Papers, the annotated PDF is shown in my library However, here is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[376,412,413,343,410,409,408,411],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-reading","category-iphone","tag-annotation","tag-bibliographic-management","tag-bug-reports","tag-ipad","tag-mekentosj-com","tag-papers","tag-papers2","tag-reference-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}