Annotate PDFs

I have a complicated system for organizing and annotating PDFs. I keep my PDFs within Yep which allows me to tag the hundreds of documents I save so I can locate them again and I highlight and annotate these documents using Skim (see following image). However, because I spend so much of my time reading and annotating, I am constantly searching for the newest and greatest.

MacWorld just published a “how to” claiming you do not need to purchase or find an annotation app, you can just use Preview, the general purpose document tool that comes with the Mac. The article is quite helpful.

Note: I do see that the reviews of YEP from App Store are negative claiming it does not work. The reviews are for version 3. My experience has been with version 2.something. You can download a trial version at no cost and I have done this. I encountered no problem locating files with this trial version so the claims in the complaints do not match my experience.

P.S. – this post deserves an update. After generating this post, I paid for and downloaded the app. I did initially have difficulty getting it to work. I wish I could explain the fix-up strategy. Unfortunately, like many of my debugging practices, I tried a bunch of things and the program started working. The last thing I did was to drag a pdf into YEP and then other pdfs began to appear. This can’t be what you have to do to get it work and must be some chance event, but this is what I did.