![]() ![]() Hmm, I will need to think about my PDF reading workflow now. Perhaps it makes it easier for the sync but nevertheless lack some features such as AppleScript, etc. The Papers 2020 seems to put everything online, and the Mac native app also feel like a wrapper around the web and not a full-blown desktop app. Unfortunately, the ability to sync PDFs across different devices including tablets is one of my requirement and hence I go down the path of enabling syncing papers3 with dropbox - and lead to the cryptic filename. my blog post a few years ago: More on Accessing PDFs Managed by Papers 3 for Mac – CogZest where I advised against using Papers with Dropbox because it renamed PDF files with cryptic ID numbers, making it essentially incompatible with Spotlight and launchers ( LaunchBar, Alfred). In the reference management app one can include hook links to the files themselves, and vice versa if the reference management app provides unique URLs.Įven Hook aside, I always advise people to avoid syncing their precious PDFs to a web service – why put a research career in the cloud? cf. The reference management software could then simply be used for dealing with citations. ![]() I’ll also look at and get in touch with the BookEnds dev: Reference management and bibliography generation software for Macintosh.Īnother alternative is to manage one’s PDF in information managers (e.g., DEVONthink or EagleFiler) or directly on Finder. It would be in principle possible for PDF files managed by Papers 3 to be migrated to a competing citation manager if they import the PDFs by moving them rather that duplicating them. Hook’s integration with Papers 3 is file based (using hook://file URLs), so it is not dependent on Papers itself. I have contacted ReadCube with a request for that. Papers 2020 doesn’t seem to have AppleScript support. Whether they have an AppleScript dictionary with the right (rather minimal) support
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