I think it would be useful to have an indicator on which files I’ve annotated – sometimes I only write a summary under “notes”, sometimes I know a paper well and only keep it for the citation, and for the rest it’s hard to remember which one I went over online and filled in notes on the PDF rather than on paper.
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Thank you for this suggestion @Yuval_Pinter. We have added your request to our tracker for the team’s consideration.
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Hi, any update on this?
Thank you for bumping this topic, @Yuval_Pinter. I don’t have any updates to share for annotated PDFs, but our filter menu keeps track of papers with notes. If you add notes by clicking the speech bubble under a reference in your library, the filter menu keeps track of these references through the “Has note” filter, but we don’t yet have a filter for annotated PDFs. A partial workaround that may work in a pinch would be to create an “Annotated” label and add annotated PDFs to it after working with them. It’s also possible to include notes and annotations in your search results, so this might also be useful.
I’ve commented on this before in Aug 2020, but in my case I’ve discovered but in probably 90% of those cases the Note is a doi, conference detail or Paperpile filename for some reason. For those with conference detail it looks as though conference proceedings are being imported as a ‘Book Chapter’ and the conference detail added to the notes, but I cannot see an obvious reason why any of the notes should contain anything unless I put it there myself. Any idea why this has happened? And is there an easy way to empty the field for these papers. This erroneous field filling makes it almost impossible for me to identify those papers that I have actually added notes to… Vicente thought this was a bug, which they were going to fix, and it looks as though it has - but unfortunately he did not have a suggestion as to how to differentiate between my notes and the buggy ones!
Thanks for following up here, @jmw. It sounds like the extra notes (DOIs, conference details, filenames) might have been added during an import. When there’s no specific field for certain metadata, Paperpile saves it in the Notes field to avoid losing it.
Right now, there’s no way to bulk remove these notes automatically. But if you manually delete an unwanted note by clicking on its speech bubble and removing the text from the note panel, the Has notes filter in the filter menu will update right away. We agree this could be improved and I’ve passed your feedback along to the product team for consideration.