Dear Jon, I have a working work-flow using BibDesk and my iPad to read papers. I use my extract script (http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/people/afischli/software, script "Extract For e-Reading") to extract the current selection within BibDesk (incremental) and copy it in form of a html index and the associated pdf's to a cloud disk (I use MobileMe, but you could also use Dropbox). See a public sample of the index created by my script here (http://www.sysecol2.ethz.ch/Refs/EntClim/).
On the iPad I use GoodReader and its sync facility to sync the cloud folder. It works very reliable in my experience. Once I completed reading a pdf I delete it using GoodReader's File managing function unless I have annotated the pdf. In the latter case I use another AppleScript to bring those pdf's back into my pdf repository on the Mac. All pdf copying is quite efficient, since I do every extraction or syncing back incrementally. I am happy with my workflow and I even have defined a shortcut for the extraction, since I regularly (several times per day) decide to read some other papers on my iPad. However, there is one caveat: For a proper syncing you need the cite key be stored somehow in the pdf. Since I name pdf's <cite key>.pdf, <cite key>_S.pdf, <cite key>_S2.pdf etc. syncing is easy. If you should use pdf naming conventions that do not allow to deduce the cite key from the pdf's name, my workflow may be broken in the sense that I wouldn't know how to easily sync back annotated pdf's. Regards, Andreas P.S.: I have not yet made available my script for syncing back at the aforementioned website. ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 221-4657 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 02/Apr/2011, at 05:43 , Jon Keane wrote: I'm trying to setup a workflow that integrates skim (and bibdesk) with reading on the iPad. I've tried Papers and although it seems like it might be slick – I've been disappointed so far. I've seen a few conversations on this list discussing the ipad a few times, but I haven't seen a description of the work flows that people use, and which of these two readers is more compatible, or more preferred. Could anybody share their current workflow for skim-ipad integration using either GoodReader or iAnnotate or some other ipad app that I don't know about? At this point I'm mostly concerned with the ipad app being easily navigable and searchable, but annotations prowess is important too. Thanks. -Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
