How to create hypermedia notes during your lectures!

There are some apps, which combine the features of a note taking and a voice recording app but in a very distinctive way. Specifically, they have the ability to continuously synchronize the recorded audio with your notes. As a result, each word acts as a link to the time point of the recorded audio at which it was written! Obviously this makes navigating a long lecture fast and easy and after a while you will start to appreciate the power of another kind of link!

Currently, I use "AudioNote" for taking my hypermedia notes mainly because there is a version of it both for iOS and Mac OS X. Consequently, I can read my notes and hear the synced audio in all my platforms. An other app with a somewhat more polished interface and richer organizational abilities is "Notability" but you can you use it only in your iPhone or your iPad.

How to convert a Mac-Unix style path to a Windows style path from Skim

Sometimes, I want to open a PDF file in my Windows virtual machine. To make things faster I wrote an AppleScript which converts the PDF file path of the front Skim window to its proper Windows style and then the converted path is sent to the clipboard.
As a result, all I have to do after the conversion is to paste the new path to the "File" field of the "Open" window in Adobe Acrobat Pro in Windows.

In order for this AppleScript to work properly, you need to customize the variable "WinPath" with the name and the drive letter of your hard drive.

The AppleScript code is the following:

tell application "Skim"
    set FilePath to get the path of front document
    set my text item delimiters to "/"
    set FilePath to text items of FilePath
    set my text item delimiters to "\\"
    set FilePath to (FilePath as text)
    set WinPath to "Z:\\MBProSystem" & FilePath
    set the clipboard to WinPath
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