On Jun 22, 2007, at 08:26, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Jun 21, 2007, at 23:08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >> >>> On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Once again I'm thinking about how to handle all my reference >>>> material. Right now I'm using Yojimbo to get all the website-stuff >>>> from the net and then there are PDFs. >>>> For handling PDFs I see at time three options: >>>> a) Using the Finder with metatags and some good file names (any >>>> suggestions for conventions) >>>> b) Using DevonThink Personal (I've got a license for it from MacZot >>>> and the other versions are just too expensive for me right now) >>>> c) Using Papers (just downloading the actual version) >>>> >>>> I would use BibDesk in all three cases because I write all my stuff >>>> with LaTeX and I think it's superior if it comes to handling bib- >>>> files. >>>> In the end all files should be in some system where I can easily >>>> find and manage them. >>>> >>>> How are you guys handling your reference-materials? >> >> I mainly have PDF files, with the odd HTML/PostScript/TIFF, all >> managed with BibDesk's AutoFile. They're linked to references in >> BibDesk, since I'd go nuts using more than one program for the same >> task. One plus for BibDesk: it doesn't care what file format you >> attach, and you can search the contents of the attached files as well >> as the reference metadata. You can also associate multiple files >> with >> a single reference. > > I didn't know that this feature exists…cool…
Aaargh! I'm half convinced that people write new apps for reference/ PDF management because they don't know BibDesk can do this. How can we advertise it more effectively? I've been using it for years, and just assume that others use it as well. >>>> I just found out that I could use iTunes for managing PDFs. It >>>> allows >>> me to do a fast search on them (Genre: Papers; Artist: Author-Name; >>> Title: Paper-name; Comments: Keywords) and they are organized in one >>> place (iTunes-Music-library) which gets backed up regularly. >> >> I'm guessing it doesn't allow you to search by content, though? It >> really depends on what you need. > > Most of the "interesting" stuff is non-OCR-JSTOR-stuff anyway -- I > gave up the illusion to search the content of my pdfs (and stuff in > iTunes can be handled by Spotlight). Some kind of tagging and not > thinking about the managing in the file-system is more important to > me. True. The disadvantage of Spotlight is that you can't limit the scope of its search easily. Regardless, I gave up organizing by hand in the Finder, and now all searching is handled by BibDesk (metadata and content). -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
