November 3, 2007

Papers 1.5!

Posted by Eric at 11:42 pm | Category: Links, Science, Technology

I use Papers to organize all of my, well, papers. I read a lot of journals regularly, because I have a lot of interests; without a good workflow, I’d get buried under a pile of PDFs (admittedly, not that heavy, but >1,000 PDFs is hard to manage, no matter what the organization folder system).

The new version is much better. It integrates with more search services, such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science, and the organization system just got a lot easier. The search integration with Spotlight is much snappier now, there is now even better BiBTeX integration, and lots of bugs seem to have been fixed, as it hasn’t crashed for me yet. There are still some small nitpicky issues (like not being able to specify a Smart Collection that gathers all papers imported in the last month), but overall this is a much more stable and useable release. Worth the price, especially with the student discount!

3 Responses to “Papers 1.5!”

  1. cmb Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 1:18 am

    Dude, I love you.

    *Stops downloading the same paper she’s downloaded three times because it wasn’t the top match in spotlight.*

  2. Ben Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 9:12 am

    I keep going back and forth, alternately installing and moving everything onto it, and then getting frustrated and settling for organizing everything myself via Finder. You’re not making things any easier! I’ll definitely have to check out the updates.

  3. Eric Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 11:07 am

    One of the nice things is that it’s really easy to go back to Finder organization with Papers, because you can control how Papers organizes the PDFs into folders. Just go to the “Library” tab in the preferences, and you can actually have Papers sort everything in folders and systematically rename PDFs.

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