Writing a Research Paper on ChromeOS

After receiving a Cr-48 Chrome Notebook this week, I decided to write my research paper for graduate school solely on the web. It has been difficult to get started.

One of the main reasons is the inability to notate PDFs. I would really like to make notations! I've also encountered serious issues with highlighting text. It simply does not seem to work for PDFs. I can only grab one line at a time.

In working through this issue I've hit on a few solutions.

1. When viewing a PDF directly with Chrome's built-in PDF viewer, press CTRL+S and save the PDF. Once saved, upload it to Google Docs, making sure to select the option to "Convert text from PDF or images.
2. Alternatively, I also tried creating a Google Doc and simply highlighting one line at a time from the web and pasting it into the doc. Yeah, that is highly annoying and inefficient.

The bottom line is that the built in PDF viewer is very underpowered. It makes doing research very difficult.