Bookmarks - Navigation aid & Reminder

A PDF Bookmark is a powerful navigation tool, but a lot of people don't seem to use bookmarks. That's a big mistake. 

I keep all my case pleadings in a PDF document, and I bookmark each pleading separately so I can navigate to it quickly.  If the pleading has Exhibits or associated documents I bookmark each of those documents and then nest the bookmark under the main bookmark for that pleading.  The bookmarks can be moved around if you want.  And that's a powerful benefit.

Let's say you have your pleadings scanned in chronologically, which makes sense.  Discovery requests are issued in, say, January of 2007 but are not responded to until March.  Between then you've had some other pleadings come in.  But you want the response bookmark to be nested below the original request.  First, that makes sense since the response is associated with the request.  But it also makes sense as a visual aid that helps you see which responses are outstanding.  Take a look at this short movie clip and you'll see what I mean (the third bookmark doesn't have a nested bookmark, which tells me there is no response to that request).

Comments

[pdf_user]

Is there any way to copy or export the bookmarks?
(e.g., to create a table of contents?)

[Ernie]

There was a post about this awhile back at: http://www.pdfforlawyers.com/2003/08/printing_out_bo.html

Or you can search for all posts on the topic of bookmarks by navigating to
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