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Radiologists using iTunes to organize medical PDFs
You can drop a PDF into iTunes and sort it just like you would with music. That means that the medical documents in Shanghai are searchable, ratable, and can be given multiple different tags. Before iTunes, they were keeping redundant copies of PDFs in directories by category. Now, they only need to keep one of each. So, if you've been looking for software that can organize your PDFs, think about an app you likely already have: iTunes!
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James said 1:35PM on 7-30-2008
Is there something special about PDFs, or does this work with any file type? I always thought a tag-based (rather than hierarchical) file system would be neat to play with, but too much work to implement myself...
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Matt B. said 1:51PM on 7-30-2008
Why not use DEVONthink? It's made for this kind of thing.
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JoshN said 5:26PM on 7-30-2008
Maybe because it costs money and is not cross-platform ;o)
Eric said 2:02PM on 7-30-2008
I imagine it works with PDFs because they can be downloaded from the iTunes Store as "digital booklets" to go along with albums. Podcasts will occasionally put a wallpaper inside a PDF, also.
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julian said 4:35PM on 7-30-2008
now this is a neat post
thanks!
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Larry C said 5:13PM on 7-30-2008
Seems like this would be better handled by some kind of desktop search program that could search / sort based on document meta data & document content
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juzten said 2:45AM on 7-31-2008
im gonna have to try this out
thanks
juzten
Daily Free Software
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Mike said 12:19AM on 7-31-2008
This was covered some time ago on lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/geek-to-live--organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes-240447.php
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Jonathan Allen said 4:41PM on 8-01-2008
I have been doing this for some time. I am doing a doctorate in music, so the integration was pretty obvious. With the ability to create a PDF from any document on the Mac, I can add the PDF to the playlist of the piece I am studying or have a dedicated playlist for a particular subject of just PDF's. Works like a charm.
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