Touché. :) In fact, despite my original motivation for Skim (I don't like wasting paper) - I still often print things, especially if they need a lot of annotation. However - the specific benefits I see for reading papers on an iPad are:
- don't use paper - capacity - I can carry all the papers - assuming Skim notes - searchable notes (this has been very useful for me with Skim) - easy to send a copy of an annotated paper to many people - zoom can be very handy for charts n' graphs. - searchable papers -mike On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Adam M. Goldstein <z_californianus-dated-1276558681.a23...@shiftingbalance.org> wrote: > If you look on the TeX on OSX mailing list archives, you will find some > discussion of strategies for TeX'ing remotely, using dropbox. Maybe that will > give people some ideas. > > Although I have no doubt that the iPad would be eminently useful for reading > and annotating papers, I would just like to point out that the latest advance > in mobile technology simulates um, a clipboard. If there is some way to > annotate the PDF, then we'll be able to simulate a clipboard and a pen. > > Adam > > On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: > >> 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. 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