![]() Sente has some fundamental flaws, unfortunately, that makes me nervous to totally migrate my data from Mendeley:Ī. The notes then could be exported to Devonthink or Scrivener using some apple scripts. It can also rename files, just like Mendeley. It can directly quite, snapshot, highlight and insert all these into the Notes panel. I am considering totally leaving Mendeley and migrating to Sente because of the fact that the application has a more elegant tools of annotating PDFs. I will just shortly reflect my own experience with the application and its place in my work flow. I recommend visiting his post I am not going to repeat the whole story here. Macadamec has already written a great post about Sent. Hence, I search and “see also” the related papers in Devonthink, Group them in one folder I then drag them to Sente for reading and taking notes. I am right now writing a paper about Nominalization. I then group, replicate, organize, tag the files in the Devonthink so that I could organize them for my specific projects. So, Mendeley renames and puts the files in “AllLing” Devonthink indexes them. The challenge I am facing is to make other applications to work with Devonthink. I think no other app as good as Devonthink for managing scientific papers. I have tried some of the other database apps. (Note: I don´t have any affiliation with any of the links I mention here). Devonthink will be an indispensable part of to my workflow. Their screencast gave me a good ground on Devonthink. I definitely recommend you to watch a screen cast in a website (it is under a paywall unfortunately) called screencastonline. If you are staring to use the app, the learning could be a bit steep. It is also packed with many other interesting features such as tagging system, notes-taking tool organize files into different folders, smart folders, duplicate detection, replication (aliases) etc. ![]() That means, if I am reading an article on “Definiteness”, the software can scan its database, find and suggest relevant articles, articles that contain the word “definiteness” or/and other related words in the articles for me. It has an artificial intelligence which looks inside the PDF files and establish content-based relation among the PDFs. Devonthink is one of the most powerful apps I have ever seen in the mac environment. Other reference managers such as Sente and Papers are great by their own, but are weaker in their integration with bibtex.ĭatabase managers are tools to organize files and information in a manageable manner. One main reason I want to use Mendeley is the fact that it live syns Bibtex files, even if it is not as elegant as I wish it to be. I also index the folder “AllLing” into Devonthink (see next). Since the files will be renamed to Author-year-title, I can search the files using any of these attributes. Then, I setup Mendeley to suck-in all the PDFs available in the “agglomeration” folder into its library, rename and then put them all into “AllLing” folder.Īs you can see from the above screenshot, the Mendeley is organizing my PDFs into a folder, inside Dropbox. This is the folder where I keep properly organized files.Ĭ. You can google it.ī-I have another folder in Dropbox, call it “AllLing”. I use a download manager called folx to force all the pdf files to go to this folder. All the PDF I download from internet directly go there. Here I use it.Ī-I set a folder in Finder, I call it “agglomeration”, to mean, a folder where I drop all newly downloaded PDFs. It is such a powerful application to do these tasks. I use mendeley not only to collect references, but also rename and organize my PDFs. For file, organization, I use two tools Dropbox folder and Mendeley. My first task is to properly setup files organized in a specific folder, to make them easily accessible via Spotlight (or Alfred, I prefer the latter though). But, for now, I will just put only a short summary of my experiences with them. I will write a detailed review of each of the applications here in the future. Therefore, I will be recording my experiences with each of the apps I am trying until I come up with the final, perfect system for my work flow. I have already learned a lot about Devonthink, Cirus Punies Notebook, Curio, Tinderbox and the like great apps. Even if there doesn´t seem to exist any comparable application in Mac as MS OneNote, I am discovering quite powerful apps in mac OS too. The university has given me a macbook pro, so, I am no more using windows OS. ![]() So, I am trying to build up as perfect workflow as possible for my future research works. I have already collected more 1500 PDF articles and books (also did my MA in linguistics). I am now starting up my PhD in linguistics.
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