Annotation and comment search

Feature requests
#1

Continuing the discussion from Highlight and annotate PDFs in Paperpile:

Hiya,

thanks for all the work that you do, i’m really glad I ran across y’all.

Right now I’m putting all my notes for each pdf in the … well, notes section rather then comments or annotations because I like being able to search across all my notes in each pdf. I was wondering if search of annotations/comments across docs would ever be a feature?

Thanks!

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#2

I was wondering if search of annotations/comments across docs would ever be a feature?

This is an excellent feature suggestion. Are there any plans for this?

#3

Yes, that’s actually something we are already working on.

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#4

Great to hear, thank you!

#5

Thank you for this info. Unfortunately most of the titles have other characters that are making them indistinguishable to the auto-update. Is there any way for me to download the RIS version and somehow manually attach it to existing articles?

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#6

@ktejeda I replied on our original exchange :point_left:t4:

#7

Is this feature available now? Or likely to be available soon?

#8

I just came here to make this suggestion.

Working on a project right now and juggling several sources. Making annotations in the Paperpile app and annotating the pdfs in the web app.

Would love the ability to tag certain annotations with a project name that I could then use to search across sources. At minimum a search function to search for a keyword I place in notes, comments, annotations would be a great help.

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#9

Any update on this feature? this would be a game changer for me.

#10

Thanks for the ping here, @Chris_Taylor! Full-text search from the library will be implemented first (hopefully by the end of this year) along with some other advanced search filters/features, then we will be in a better position to work on searching annotations/highlights. Adding your +1 to the topic on our tracker.

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#11

Hi there! It’s now almost a year later and this feature still isn’t available. Is there a timeline or an update for when I will be able to search my annotations in the app? I’d love to use Paperpile as a One-Stop shop but at this stage I’ll have to use two apps at once, which kind of ruins the flow.

Thank you!