Cannot save annotations in org noter pdf and see when I open up again

Hello,

I cannot seem to save my annotations to a pdf through org-noter if I open up a capture template for ref+noter through org -roam-bibtex.

The process is as follows:

  • open up org-roam-bibtex, look for paper that i want to annotate.
  • press for edit notes (9 tab enter)
  • open org-noter
  • highlight text in the buffer and create note. Highlighted text appears in the PDF view and notes show in Notes of Notes buffer
  • I kill the buffer and it asks to kill anyway because modified. I stop, save and then close.
  • I kill the pdf buffer, If I tried to save the PDFView buffer, it says buffer read only.
    I open org noter again and try to sync the note but no highlighted notes appear and it says
    epdfinfo: No such annotation: annot-x-xx

Is there anything that you guys would suggest to allow for highlighted pdf text to persist after I close org noter?
If not, can you mention how you have organised your org-roam-bibtex, org-noter and org-roam configs so that it isa pain free workflow?

I will post some config information if it helps:

(use-package org-roam-bibtex
  :requires bibtex-completion
  :load-path "~/bibtex/bibs.bib" ;Modify with your own path
  :hook (org-roam-mode . org-roam-bibtex-mode)
  :bind (:map org-mode-map
	      (("C-c n a" . orb-note-actions)))
   )

;; pdf tools stuff
(pdf-tools-install)

;; pdfs noter
(use-package org-noter
  :after (:any org pdf-view)
  :config
  (setq
   ;; Please stop opening frames
   org-noter-always-create-frame nil
   ;; I want to see the whole file
   org-noter-hide-other t
   ;; Everything is relative to the main notes file
   org-noter-notes-search-path "~/orgs/"

   org-noter-auto-save-last-location nil
   )
  :ensure t
  )

thanks guys for any help that you can give

Hi,

how did you achieve links in :NOTER_PAGE:?

This is how my org-noter entries look like (everything works just fine):

Screenshot 2020-11-02 at 08.38.06

Anyway, the root of the problem seems to be that you cannot save the PDF file because it is opened read only. Dig in this direction.