Scientific work with Craft

How Hook interconnects Craft and Skim to support your research with an efficient workflow.

Hej,

Today we talk about a somewhat more specialized topic though part of everyday life for knowledge workers. We read articles or scientific papers on a specific topic and want to capture important information and link it to existing knowledge.

Usually, we do this by having the document on one side of the screen and your note-taking application on the other side. You mark relevant passages and make suitable notes and connections as you go through the document.

Many of you make these notes and annotations in the reference document (e.g., the PDF). However, from my point of view, this is not a good approach. You bury your notes and can't find them later easily by search. Additionally, it cannot be linked well to other notes. The possibilities for annotations are limited. While upgraded PDF reading applications (e.g. LiquidText) are available, I like to have all my thoughts in one central place.

Craft itself has no such feature built-in yet. Therefore, we need a bit of glue.

I manage the sci…