InkSeine doesn't have the equivalent of a "Print to OneNote" feature, so I don't use InkSeine that often to mark up documents. OneNote is better for that. (You can copy individual pages that you have printed to OneNote and then paste them into InkSeine, however.)

But for documents that I really want to go through in detail and pull out the key issues, ideas, or parts that I have questions about, InkSeine serves me well. I create a scrapbook that consists of only the key portions of the document - not the entire document - with my thoughts and annotations. 

I recently reviewed a PhD thesis, a massive PDF file that was some 300 pages long. Since I was serving on the student's examination committee, I needed to understand what he had done and of course ask him tough questions after his presentation. I also had to write up an assessment of the thesis in a report to his advisors. And I sure didn't want to keep scrolling through this 300 page behemoth any more than I absolutely had to.

So that I could be at maximum efficiency when grilling the student during his defense, I boiled down all the interesting stuff into a 13-page note. I just captured the key images and ideas, with my thoughts about his contributions to human knowledge, and questions that I could ask him about his project. 

This worked out great for both me and the student. If I run out of tough questions to ask, my standard one is "Justify your existence in 25 words or less!"  Somehow, that one never seems to be a great conversation starter. [:-)]

The best thing out of all of this? He passed! Congratulations, Dr. Shazad Malik.

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