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Does it have usable bibtex support nowadays? The last time I tried using it (~4-5 years ago), that was the reason that I did not end up using it. I build a small web application that full-text-indexed all of the papers I needed back then instead.
And it allows you to do stuff that commercial software couldn't do, like use a headless browser to fetch metadata from the ACM website using your credentials (hey, I pay for my membership, and I have very reasonable rate limits built in my system). Sadly that's why it's the one piece of software I'll likely never open source :'(
Colleagues were always surprised to hear about my system, but honestly I believe that any tool you'll use consistently throughout your life is worth building yourself.
I ended up dropping out of my PhD for startups :) but I'll probably go back to research in the long term, and am looking forward to adding more features to it.
I wrote a couple of 'plugins' for it, one for looking up papers through Alfred, and another for quickly importing papers from the arXiv and from INSPIRE (the high-energy physics database).
In grad school, I wrote my own academic research "organizer" using Django (the framework makes it really easy). It takes a few weekends of work, but then you have something really cool and suited to your needs. And it allows you to do stuff that commercial software couldn't do, like use a headless browser to fetch metadata from the ACM website using your credentials (hey, I pay for my membership, and I have very reas…
I spent countless hours reading articles all over the place, only to find most of them are the utter shit imaginable, you wonder how they even get published.
I am sure that, around the world, many people are like me, preparing a thesis or something.. So this shit gets read a whole lot of time, when it should in fact collect electronic dust on a long forgotten server, until it commits suicide.
Also, anyone preparing some work has to go over that to do a "State of the Art"... Where's the field at right now..
This work gets repeated. Why wouldn't it be done once every time an industry is moved forward, so you just pick up there and bring your improvements, instead of reinventing the wheel every time.
It's "something" where academic articles are reviewed, and I don't mean "peer reviewed articles" and what not.. More like Amazon with books: Readers write what they think the book is lacking, or is not.
You can search for the article, and it displays reviews..
This is because in many articles, the authors are major assholes abusing keywords: They include keywords, you read the article to find that they really only had one sentence talking about it.
They pack it with keywords in the hopes of getting searched for.
It can be a client for example, peer to peer.
You install your client, you choose some themes and keywords you are interested in.. And then each time you start-up, it shows "relevant articles" for you to read and review.
It'll help you stay updated on a current industry, a particular branch of an industry, etc..
Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…
Using Pandoc and its referencing tools requires .bib files, and Mendeley's automatic .bib export means I can just type citekeys and expect them to work. And if you want your text to make sense as a markdown file, you want your citekey clean and informative. It's been a while, but I think Papers used citekeys that didn't conform to any sort of spec (something like :_blah instead of Author:DATE), and pandoc simply couldn't read them.
I use Mendeley now. Doesn't have the cool research tools figured out as well as Papers, but it does what it's supposed to do, which is to store my citations in a way that makes it easy to put them in a paper.
I use BibDesk [1], which is open source and comes bundled with MacTeX. It is useful and very fast by itself, and it has a full AppleScript API which makes it extendible without having to dig into the code. I wrote a couple of 'plugins' for it, one for looking up papers through Alfred, and another for quickly importing papers from the arXiv and from INSPIRE (the high-energy physics database). [1] http://bibdesk.source…
I tried Zotero standalone and Mendeley also, but the switch to BibDesk was a fresh breath of air. If you're using a bibtex workflow, I highly recommend it. It isn't the prettiest program out there, but it is fast, stable, and functional.
Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…
Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…
I like jabref, but it doesn't have papers' ability to grab a bibliographical entry for a PDF...