![]() I was creating a complex workflow with papers, keyboard maestro, folding text, editorial for ipad, skim, devonthink and evernote to create what this “plug-in” does very easily.īookends has the ugliest icon you could imagine. It is a evolution of a concept that I first read at Stian blog ( ). It is something I’ve been trying to create for years and really struggled until now. I’ve written some published articles using this method previously and all I can say is that it is life changing! Mainly for discussion sections and literature reviews, where you might struggle with several references and keeps opening and searching for each highlighted text. I can have 20 articles that were tagged with in the same page and if I click the link it will open the pdf in Sente. Sente assistant let you choose which atribute you used or $$text$$ or #, ie).Ĥ) It will sort all the articles by this tags. I can highlight the primary outcome results and give a (Francis Hittinger uses $$text$$ in his workflow) and I can make some personal comments on this highlighted text.Ģ) I can do the same for several other pdfs on my libraryģ) I can open the Sente Assistant and sort the selected pdfs or the whole library by tags. Just an example of this great workflow potential:ġ) Read a paper, highlight text on the ipad with comments for each paragraph if needed. It can show a page filtered by this tags. But the magic comes with the possibility to create and manage tags for each quote or comment of the pdf. It runs on the web browser and is capable of retrieving all highlighted text and comments from the pdf. The annotation feature of sente and this “plug-in”, called Sente Assistant, is just amazing! Papers is getting better and support is also working much better. Sente is far from perfect, but is the best that I have found. BookEnds support is out of this world, and SunnySoftware remains my hope for the future of a truly excellent citation, pdf file management and annotation system.įor what its worth, in my current workflows I keep all of my references in Sente, creating a quicktag group that represents each of my writing projects, and ultimately export the references in that tag group to EndNote for use in writing projects. Bookends has great support, but its feature set lags a little behind the rest of the field when it comes to functionality. I have tried BookEnds, and find much to commend, but ultimately I find myself relying on Sente. Where Sente really fails is in its support. I have found Sente to be totally reliable in its day to day operation, I have never lost anything using from its database since 2010, and find a lot to commend, especially its reliability, its synchronization, and its annotation facilities. ![]() Ultimately I can not rely on the information in Papers for citation purposes and that is a problem when working in collaboration with others. This information gets silently moved from translator into the author field in Papers. I work in the humanities and find the transfer of information between EndNote and and Papers to be problematic, take for example the issue of translator information. In both version 1 and 2, I managed to loose references for inexplicable reasons. I have wanted to like Papers, but to be honest the disruptive upgrade process is a huge barrier to me, the transition between version 1 and 2 is a classic example of product release management failure, and one that was repeated with the release of version 3. So I am still cautiously trying to Sente but still hoping that Papers will come back with all its strengths. The fastest way seems to be to manually drag the PDFs to the “All References” collection in Sente. It turns out one cannot simply “open” file with Sente, so a simple Hazel rule is not an option. Later versions of Papers also can automatically import all files added to a specific folder without even using Hazel. Second, I wanted to set up a workflow for automatically adding PDFs to my Sente library. I used to simply assign the “papers” tag to a file saved to the Downloads folder and then had Hazel automatically open it with Papers. ![]() With Sente, I spent 15 minutes combing its User Manual and then searching the Internet for tips, before giving up and locating the PDFs in Finder to send. All you need to do is to type the recipient’s name. Any of these create an email message with the subject line containing the author, year and title, the bibliographic reference as the body, and the pdf file as the attachment. Papers can do this through a menu item, a right-click, and a keyboard shortcut ( ⌥⌘E). The initial impression is unfortunately not very good.įirst, I wanted to email two references to a colleague. Following the disappointments with the recent version of Papers I am trying Sente 6, a competing reference and pdf management software.
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