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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!
[via Dr. Dobb's]
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Subscribe to commentsJamesJul 30th 2008 1:35PM
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...
Matt B.Jul 30th 2008 1:51PM
Why not use DEVONthink? It's made for this kind of thing.
JoshNJul 30th 2008 5:26PM
Maybe because it costs money and is not cross-platform ;o)
EricJul 30th 2008 2:02PM
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.
julianJul 30th 2008 4:35PM
now this is a neat post
thanks!
Larry CJul 30th 2008 5:13PM
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
juztenJul 31st 2008 2:45AM
im gonna have to try this out
thanks
juzten
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MikeJul 31st 2008 12:19AM
This was covered some time ago on lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/geek-to-live--organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes-240447.php
Jonathan AllenAug 1st 2008 4:41PM
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.