![]() ![]() This solves some other organizational issues for me, but I could sort of duplicate this in Papers with several manual collections. through the reading, note taking, analyzing, citing process. The other feature was customizable Statuses, which helps track articles, etc. Hittinger also adds text tags in the comments which are robust in other apps like DevonThink and Scrivener. Although Papers allows you to write notes, these easily get separated from quotations, and I have ended up having to hunt down one or the other. This immediately solves some organizational issues I have been having with Papers. Sente also associates an optional comment with each quote. Papers merges the two highlighted sections deleting any unmarked words between the sections. In highlighting the text, I have complained to Papers for years that I need to be able to end one highlight on a line and be able to start a new highlight as a separate quotation on the same line. While the pdf reader is not as nice looking as Papers, the annotation tools are better thought out. Hittinger was discussing in the articles. I decided to try the entry-limited version of Sente 6 to try out what Ms. I read the digital workflow articles by Francis Hittinger. I had rejected Sente 6 several years ago, but I needed something. Waiting on Papers support responses, I started examining options if my issue was not solved. I tried Papers 3 once again, and a couple of hours after a successful install, it began to freeze on start up once again. Papers 2 is no longer supported, and Yosemite knocks out some essential features. ![]() We tried for months to fix it without results, so I went back to Papers 2.7.3. On one of the beta builds, Papers 3 started to freeze during startup. I got on board with an early version of Papers 2, got into the Papers 3 beta program. ![]() I would think it is a smaller proportion of people that need online web access to their library rather than just direct access on the machines they write on (and usually have more storage).ĭespite using since version 1, I have spent the last week deciding on an alternative with no clear path forward yet (probably Zotero will be my reluctant choice). Bittorrent Sync, like Microsoft Mesh before it, is an excellent solution because it is peer-to-peer. No way around it, confirmed with support (they wrote back promptly and clearly and I appreciate that).ĭropbox is the most expensive online storage system out there and I have no desire to spend $10/month only to support Papers3. Apparently Papers3 does this also with Dropbox, but with the added sync stuff that involves a copy of the library in the Application Support folder, it is all wacked. The mechanism was Papers2 placed a “lock” while open to warn other copies. If you did leave Papers2 open on a machine and then tried to open on another, the app would notify you. Worked VERY well with the same caveats as the current Papers3 and Dropbox – do not leave open on two machines for example. I was using Bittorrent Sync with Paper2 to sync Office, Home and laptop (all OSX) peer-to-peer because it is fast and I do not need cloud access (my library is 4GB). I had a nice sync setup with Papers2 that Papers3 has destroyed. ![]() As far as I understand Papers 3 is working on adding some capacity of Spotlight searching inside the PDF files stored in the Library. I hope it could also be possible to search OpenMeta (OS X) tags which I routinely attach to PDF files before they are imported into Papers. So far Spotlight cannot index inside PDF documents stored in the Papers 3 library, it only indexes metadata (which include for example journal title, DOI, manual collection name etc.). The Papers support team can explain how these are mapped to Spotlight’s indexing fields. Now I have it installed as an OS Service so that I can open the PDF document by either right-clicking on it or through a keyboard shortcut. I must admit, it was the first time I’ve used Apple Script and it took a bit of (enjoyable) learning. Clicking on a search result would open the document in Papers, but this helpful script allows opening the PDF document in Preview or another default program. Search is possible not only by the title or author but also by Papers’ other metadata such as keywords as shown in the example above. Using Spotlight to search documents in Papers 3 library ![]()
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