On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Peter Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > >  Bibdesk is nice for manage my references (and getting a good bib-file
>  >  >  out of it) and pdfs in the file-system but it is missing the full-text
>  >  >  search over the pdfs like Papers is doing and it gets the whole
>  >  >  web-search thing more nicely done than Bibdesk (like automatically
>  >  >  search for the most recent papers from the selected author or from the
>  >  >  journal and stuff like that) and the interface just looks overall
>  >  >  quite nice.
>  >
>  >  Bibdesk has full content searching,  when I type something into the
>  >  search bar "File Content" comes up along with "Title", "Author" etc.
>  >  It's a bit slow the first time as it builds the search index, but fast
>  >  afterwards (is it cached at all after quit?).  I've been using the
>  >  nightly build for a while, perhaps this isn't in the release version
>  >  yet?
>
>  You are right…well, it never occured to me that the file content is
>  searched as well…
>  well it seems then that only the nicer interface and the way the
>  web-search stuff works are only points for Papers

I've never used Papers before, would you mind explaining what it is
that you like and how it differs from BibDesk?

Peter

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