On a closing positive side note, in the process of preparing a citation list this weekend in Bookends, I pulled up Obsidian in a split view.
READCUBE PAPERS 3 ZOTERO WINDOWS
I also tried JabRef, primarily to find a tool that I could recommend to my team on Windows without the stigma of saying “Here is one to try … BUT I have never used it”.
READCUBE PAPERS 3 ZOTERO PDF
I was less enthused about its ability to handle PDF resources. It beats Mendeley and Papers hands down in all of these positive regards, and it is these positive features that keep me returning to Bookends even as I struggle with using it. It has one core team of two people who are passionate about the app (if not perhaps also a bit insistent about what I posit are its frustrating idiosyncracies). It supposedly plays well with other “information management” apps on the macOS (DevonThink among the top, PDFExpert as well). You can split off your resources into individual libraries. It has a very nicely done companion app on the iPad. It is mac-Centric (when this matters as it does here). What is to love about Bookends? It is probably among the most powerful, feature-rich app for managing references. (Sorry but … I just came off an arduous weekend with Bookends and … Ask me to relate the story should we someday be chatting over a good Port in a gemütliche Kneipe in Berlin). But gosh, you can flush that toilet going clockwise or counter-clockwise or even straight down if you can create the right sequence of template codes (or AppleScript commands) in advance. If Bookends were a bathroom facility, to flush the toilet properly, you would have to face south, hold the light switch on, and recite the Lord’s prayer in Polish. I might make a rather vaguely-referenced and not intentionally crude to be cruel analogy about my experience using Bookends. If I did not have such a love/hate relationship with Bookends, I would drop Papers. So I hope the experience my carry over as the new ReadCube/Papers app is developed. I would in fact go so far as to say that I enjoyed working in Papers3. It has probably the most intuitive, smoothly operating UI of the three apps that I am using. I hold on to Papers because it has a nicely done UI. I defer that someone in the humanities/social sciences/business disciplines could speak to its utility in those fields. PubMed is its strong connection) and does poorly in the hard sciences. Its earlier invocations left me with the strong impression that it is does well in the medical fields (e.g.
READCUBE PAPERS 3 ZOTERO UPGRADE
If I had not already built a relationship with Papers3 (and did not thereby get a good discount on the upgrade to the new version), I would probably not continue with ReadCube/Papers. Given my (old-fashion perhaps) strong desire to remain local with my resources and only share when needed, this will be another reason I would move away from Mendeley. The new version will be opt-in for local (rather than opt-in for cloud storage). FWIW, Mendeley has a new app in development that promises to focus back on the core vision of a reference manager (dropping those tools that give it a scientific warehouse + social media board feel). If I had no need to share with anyone else, I would likely dump Mendeley. Bookends allows me to split my resources across libraries. More recently, I need something that networks in smaller chunks with my iPad. Bookends - I have a huge library of references over a few decades.The new ReadCube/Papers version, while currently having fewer features than Papers3, still functions nicely for some of my local needs.
Nothing yet beats it for doing just this one task.
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