One more set opinion/experience: I actually discovered Skim by reading a user-list for Papers. I now use them both together. I haven't tried Bibdesk, but Papers (not free, but cheap) has proven to me to be a great "iTunes-ish" app for organizing references and associated pdfs. Automatically gives pdfs sensible names, uses several different search engines to find refs, either starting from meta-data typed in or searching from metadata found in the pdf. It's reference records can then be output to other formats for use in EndNote etc. So far I'm happy enough with it that I haven't been tempted to try BibDesk.
Papers doesn't display Skim notes in its viewer (actually has its own less nice notes system), but it as a key-stroke combo that automatically directs a pdf to Skim for reading/annotating. Google Papers to find it, should be top of the list. Bill >On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:17 AM, P Kishor wrote: > >> Indeed, as others have pointed out, BibDesk is an excellent PDF >> organizer. There are other drawbacks with BibDesk... one, that it is >> only a PDF organizer, hence, is not good at other bits and bobs you >> might throw at it... for example, at one point I had the bright idea >> of attaching text files in it thinking I would save it some work by >> not having to slog through PDFs, but that didn't do any good. > >This is incorrect; BibDesk is capable of handling any file type as an >attachment. If you have a Spotlight importer that does full-text >import for that type, you can search its content as well. If this is >not working for you, I'd like to know! Please direct discussion on >this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Second, >> I am still struggling with being able to take data out of BD for >> citations in a seamless manner given my preferred workflow which does >> not involve anything to do with TeX. > >Well, that's your own fault for not using TeX ;). Have you seen the >CiteInPages stuff that Jim Harrison is working on? > >-- >adam > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >SF.Net email is sponsored by: >Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >It's the best place to buy or sell services for >just about anything Open Source. >http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >_______________________________________________ >Skim-app-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users -- ----------------- William A. Mohler Associate Professor Dept. of Genetics and Developmental Biology University of Connecticut Health Center MC-3301 263 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06030-3301 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (860) 679-1833, room E2056 Lab: (860) 679-1834, room E2052 Mobile: (860) 985-2719 Fax: (314) 689-1833 G&DB dept. ofc.: (860) 679-8350 G&DB dept. fax : (860) 679-8345 http://genetics.uchc.edu/Faculty/Mohler/Mohler.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
