![]() Nothing is perfect and you can spend forever trying to find something better rather than just doing your work.Īnd Word for an MS Thesis? Dare I say UGH! But that is a whole topic to itself.AirSlate is the particular only holistic no-code, multi-cloud, incorporated and configurable workflow solution for serving you defeat your industry with smart automation Bots. In the end, I recommend that you find one citation manage that you understand and stay with it. I may try Zotero again just to see what is new. I tried Zotero once some time ago.It does not allow me to find similar reference articles as with Papers3. As noted by Endnote on a Mac is an afterthought. ReadCube does the latter well, whereas Papers3 does the former well.Įndnote was just too expensive and too ugly for my tastes. I am in the physical sciences, not the medical science. I also have high hopes for the Papers3 -> Papers/Readcube transition as a way to replace Mendeley to collaborate with my research group. The ability of Papers3 to find comparable citations to a given article far surpassed what was possible in Bookends. I generate the BibTex files directly from Papers3. I use BibDesk to manage the BibTex files that are merged with my LaTeX documents. How far this will go is yet to be determined (it is a work in progress). ![]() Why not just use Papers3 annotation tools? Because my library is too big to sync with my iPad and because I know and like the annotation tools in PDFExpert. I am exploring the options to export collections to Dropbox, annotate from my iPad in PDFExpert, and re-import. I do not share anything from Papers3 directly on its cloud. I use Papers3 to maintain all of my citations. I agree with … the Mendeley iOS app is nothing exciting. Some of my research group also use Windows, and Mendeley is cross-platform. I appreciate that it provides a way to share publications for free. I use Mendeley to collaborate with my research group. ![]() And that‘s the most important thing, after all. But the app itself workes great - I never had problems with information missing or literature lists not being accure. I run it in Parallels which is fine but not really ideal. In the end, I settled for Citavi, which is only available for Windows. I couldn‘t figure out why this happened and since Endnote is really expensive, I did not want to spend the money. Unfortunately, it crashed about 80% of the time I opened it. ![]() I then downloaded the free Endnote trial because it is the only reference manager I know that integrates with Pages. But, more importantly, when importing sources, it seemed that Mendeley could not process all information and left some fields blank (which also lead to problems in the literature list). Somehow, even though I‘m pretty sure that my settings were correct, the style did not match the guidelines. I tried Mendeley for an essay we wrote as a group (the collaboration features sounded useful to us) but I was disappointed by its capability to produce an accurate literature list. I was also looking for a suitable reference manager for my Bachelor thesis but was only partially successful. When you have to reformat citations and references to meet differences journal requirements it’s invaluable. Sorry if this sounds like a fan! I’m not affiliated at all but it’s one piece of software I genuinely cannot do without. The word integration is awesome, with keyboard shortcuts to bring up the picker making citation entry really fast (triple tab and space to enter just the date). If my post grad highlights a pdf I see the highlight instantly. I’ve published multiple systematic reviews with my postgrads (who may be in another country) but with the whole shebang managed via Zotero. Zotero is free (paid for larger shared libraries) but the sharing is one of the best things about it. Papers is good but doesnt offer me anything over Zotero. The MAC app feels like an afterthought and you can’t share full PDFs I almost exclusively use Zotero.Įndnote is a dreadful piece of software, particularly on the Mac (they took a year to have a version that worked with office 365). I’m a UK academic who publishes quite a bit. Hi, new here and given the topic thought I’d post.
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