Hey there ,
I’m new to endnote and I’m wondering if there is a function that allows you to search for particular words or quotes/phrases within the collection of reference papers that you have in your endnote library.
for example
I have a collection of 300 papers [attached as pdfs] in my endnote library to do with evolutionary theory.
I am trying to find all the quotes that mentioned ‘teleological problems’ in these papers so i can see which authors were interested, or discussing ‘teleology and its associated problems’ [however briefly (i.e. to include searches within the text of papers where teleology isn’t included in the abstract or keywords)].
From this search I’d like to generate a list of the papers in my library that have references to teleology in the pdf [as opposed to [or including] keywords] and for endnote to group these papers into a custom group for me.
Then… [and I may be asking too much, but me and a friend wrote something in filemaker pretty quickly to do all this (but it didn’t look as flashy or integrate with endnote)] does endnote bring up a window that selects the paragraph that the quote (or close to it) is in so I can copy and paste my choice of quotes into my paper [or just confirm who said what rather than rely on my memory and hope]
[basically so I don’t have to sift thru hundreds of papers looking for some bits of text i remember reading]
Anyways,
to summarise -
I want to find text contained in the pdfs of my library and be able to access it from a search in endnote.
equally if anyone knows of any other programs that can do this can they please let me know?
It’d be really handy
cheers
Chris