Export All Annotations

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Just wondering if there is a function to export all annotations/notes from all papers at once? Or does one have to open each one at a time?

It would be super useful to be able to do this quickly and into a csv format!

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Thanks for the question, @Yilun_Zhang, and welcome to our forum! It doesn’t look like we’ve had this particular request to export annotations from several/all PDFs in bulk before, so I’m creating a new topic on our internal tracker for the team to consider. Not sure how feasible this would be to code, but +1s are welcome as usual.

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Great thanks @vicente ! It would be extremely convenient to have highlights or notes (or even tags?) exist in a different format that would be sync-able with Google Sheets, for example, to then allow for flexible and dynamic use of annotations for the purposes of insight generation or big picture thinking (or for the purposes of lit review)! Just some kind of back end database would be useful, but then again, one could just loop thru X # amount of mouse clicks to individually export each papers annotations into a JSON, CSV, etc… and then append but that would could take a while.

But I am loving Paperpile so far and have only run into this issue because I recently migrated all of my papers from a different application and am now kind of stuck in this limbo… but this would make Paperpile truly perfect! Thanks!

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Yes, I would love if annotations were included in the JSON export.

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Might it be possible to at least allow CSV export of annotations so that it can be transferred to a database/spreadsheet where it can be better tagged.

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Actually, I’m surprised this isn’t already a feature. At the moment, we can export a PDF with decorated pages, but they’re not very practical. I may be doing it wrong, but imagine conducting a literature review, reading and annotating dozens of PDFs, and then having to revisit all your notes in such a scattered way.

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Is this feature going to be added?
I think it would be great if from selected papers/ folders we could create automatically a document like the one showed by @suzanne in the youtube video " Master Literature Review: A Hands-On Workflow with Litmaps & Paperpile" at minute 59:47

Cheers

Francesca

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Welcome to our forum, @Francesca_Moschini, and thank you for watching the video! What you’re asking for sounds like the automatic creation of a literature review outline from selected references or a folder in your library.

We are actively working on integrations with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and NotebookLM so you’ll be able to send PDFs directly from your Paperpile library to these tools. Our integrations include in-built prompts for literature review and paper comparison. We recently published a blog post about our approach and principles for AI integrations.

We’re very interested in user feedback on what to build next, so I’ve added your +1 to the AI-assisted literature review topic in our internal feature tracker for the team’s consideration.