Hi Steven - you're not the only person who'd like something like this. I don't currently have an iPad (or iPhone for that matter) but I expect I will get an iPad soon, and I'd really like to have some good solution for reading papers and adding notes.
However, I have no idea what that'd look like, yet - and I don't know what kind of open-source collaboration you'd get on an App-store app, when you have to pay to develop for it, and there are lots of reasons to dislike Apple's dev policies. In the mean time, have you looked at the dropbox iPad app? I haven't tried it, but I understand it lets you view PDFs that are in your dropbox. I suspect that you could tell bibdesk to save your papers to a subdirectory of your dropbox-synced directory, and then you'd at least get the PDFs synced to your iPad easily... NOTE: I haven't tried that - so be careful. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work, though. Cheers, -mike On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Steven Robertson <steven.robert...@internode.on.net> wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago there was a discussion on this list about a version of Bibdesk > and/or Skim on the iPad. It doesn't seem like anything ever came of it, and > the consensus at the time seems to have been that it's not likely to happen. > > If not a full Bibdesk/Skim App, does anyone know of any App (or Applescript?) > that would allow a user to: > 1. select a smart or static group in Bibdesk; > 2. copy a BibTex file for those items and any linked PDFs across to some App > on the iPad; > 3. read PDFs through the App (with no particular need to annotate them) using > the BibTex information to find the article I'm looking for; and > 4. (ideally) allow me to create new citations with links to PDFs that I'm > reading on the iPad, and then to add these to Bibdesk when I get (although > perhaps that's asking too much of the iPad). > > I know of a few iPad PDF readers out there (e.g. Goodreader) but without > taking a bunch of extra steps it seems that these won't be able to use the > information from my bibtex file to help me find an article - so I'd have to > rely on filenames or my memory to tell me which PDF is which. Papers exists > for the iPad, but I'd much rather use Bibdesk. A key feature (and the reason > why this seemed on-topic for this list) is that it would be a simple matter > to go from a bunch of items Bibdesk to reading them on the iPad once I get on > the train. > > Or am I on a wild goose chase? > > Thanks for any feedback, > Steven > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
