Papers to organize your… papers
Only a day or two ago I was talking about how fantastic Zotero has been with my research work. Keeping all my info organized and available offline just in case.
Well, today a buddy of mine showed me this great app called Papers that has just recently won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best Scientific Computing solution!
It’s a cool itunes-style application that helps you organize your… get ready for it… papers!
Papers will revolutionize the way you deal with scientific papers. Search for papers using PubMed, directly retrieve and archive PDFs, and read and study them all from within Papers, your personal library of Science.
I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t really tell you what it’s like but by the feature list and information available on the website, it looks pretty impressive.
The fellows that made this app also have a bunch of other award winning science apps. I recommend you take a look.
Has anyone used Papers yet? What do you think about it?
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its an excelent application but I should note the following problems:
- only supports searching through PubMed (no use for a CS student like me)
- bibtext import / export support could be improved
besides that, its a must have!
As bibliographic software, it’s ok, not great. As a way to organize papers and read them, it’s amazingly awesome. It replaced a patchwork workflow composed of my RSS reader, web browser, Apple and Perl scripts, a giant Bibtex file, and many folders. This works much, much better as a storage and organization program. It could use some tweaking, like a bit of a speed increase, but I can’t work without it.
Well, I tried this one, but the first time I tried to import a pdf I had to restart the app to see it. And there is this thing of having to import them by hand (I think)
I am using Yep - http://www.yepthat.com/ It searches my machine for me :-D
Yep looks pretty cool. Unfortunately I don’t own a Mac, so I’ll keep with my other more rudimentary tools for paper organization (ie. folders and more folders)
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