 | Sep 25 2009 |
ALMAR almost the greatest!
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| Jul 9 2009 |
ALMAR Amazing program and works, looks great, easy to use. I am a registred (and happy) user. I am wondering if in the next future the new release of Papers will be more integrated with Preview or have someof its basic functions (highlight text underline, link and more..).
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| Mar 3 2009 |
SIMONM After using Papers, I don't know how I'd ever be able to write a research report again without it (or how I managed in the past). Papers was invaluable in helping me negotiate more than 500 papers I'd accumulated from the net during a literature search. The ability to search for key terms and quickly find references to them was a godsend. I didn't use the online search tools, and it's a little frustrating that so few papers have quality metadata. Perhaps it's an area of improvement that Papers could intelligently determine paper title, journal and/or authors where applicable from the paper...? Given that this is much cheaper than Sente, I'd recommend it to any science student or professional researcher.
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| Feb 14 2009 |
ALANTERRA This is just a short review. I looked at Papers and decided to not use it. Its user interface is well-thought-out, but it feels very incomplete. I could not figure out how to add a book or a book chapter as a reference type (and neither could a number of other people who posted to the forums). There isn't a manual that you can search for answers to simple questions, only some introductory movies plus forums on the developer's site. I ran into a number of refresh problems, which, until you figure out that they are just cosmetic bugs, cause pointless head scratching (do I not understand? is the program broken?). As a way of browsing lots of pdfs, and for looking up bibliographic data in Google Scholar, this program is awesome. But if you move beyond its strengths, you find it hard to know how to continue. I would definitely look at this program and see if it meets your needs, but also check out the alternatives, from Zotero to Sente (ie, from free to much more expensive). | |
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| Sep 30 2008 |
M.MERRY As a Uni student, this program is amazing, it actually works, looks great, is easy and is worth its price (they halve it if you prove your a student before you buy it) i highly recommend it and i'm constantly finding new tools and features!
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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 | Apr 18 2008 |
THATO So far this software has been great, the only other thing I would ask is a citeulike sinchronization option (or even a subscription like iCal calendars). Since my demo is over, I might buy it when I get some money =(
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| Apr 8 2008 |
BOMBADIL I've been using Papers now for nearly a year and it is one of my top favourite and most useful apps I've ever bought. I'm a geology Ph.D student and tried to use Sente but found it too biomedical-centric to be practical for me. A few of the gems that I find especially useful: - the ability to find & download articles directly within Papers - the 'Authors' tab which searches the latest publications by a chosen author in your library - fantastic way to be up-to-date on a leading researcher's findings - the export reference is easy to paste directly into the manuscript you're working on before you do the reformatting for the journal in question Requests and suggestions for improvements: - add some sort of highlighting functionality as in Preview app or Skim. While the Notes tab in Papers is useful, one tends to forget to look there if it's not selected. I find myself opening pdf's in Skim and making highlights there, then saving and returning to Papers. - I love auto matching function to get metadata, but it only works for newer publications in my experience (Google scholar integration is awesome I must say!) Highly recommended app if you read a lot of articles, and it has inspired me to scan my paper reprints and go paperless :)
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| Mar 6 2008 |
TOMECK The approach of Papers is very interesting and the implementation of different online sources seems to be smoothly. The scope, however, is science focused and I could not see a easy way to integrate social science online sources, in particular law journal etc. online sources. I have noticed the "plug-in" option but I haven't either the ability nor the time to do so. It would be interesting to learn if Papers will be developed for social science in the near/middle future. If so, I would buy the software immediately only to support this project.
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| Feb 21 2008 |
TIAGO Not a big deal (at all), but the actual download is 20.2Mb and not 18.8Mb as shown on this page...
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 | Feb 21 2008 |
UMIJIN Download works, but dmg fails to mount.
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| Jan 21 2008 |
FREEBSD I will refrain from adding this to a review for now, but is there any way to disable or cancel that opening video/animation?
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| Nov 27 2007 |
GCOGHILL I had to leave a comment just to note that this app has the best MacUpdate screenshot :)
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| Dec 2 2007 |
TIAGO I second that comment... And the great thing is that this level of commitment to excellence extends to the software as well... Very well thought out interface and very responsive developers... Getting better and better by the day...
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| Dec 2 2007 |
GCOGHILL Yeah the app looks pretty great, but as a non-scientist I really don't have a use for it. I would love to see future apps from these developers, looks like they're really on the ball.
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| Nov 24 2007 |
DOCEATMAC Awesome piece of software. With 1.5 papers made a big step forward to a stable and reliable application. The developers give exemplary support and seem to be very responsive to new feature requests. I have hundreds of scientic articels stored on my mac and thanks to papers I will not lose track again. It is one one the best mac applications I have ever bought and actually my most important. Highly recommended and I think a must have for every medical student, natural and medical scientist...
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| Nov 2 2007 |
SJHA With the new (1.5) version Papers steps into a class of its own for bibliographic management for biomedical researchers. There is really nothing else quite like it. It tightly integrates literature searching, pdf file down-loading, and pdf file display and organisation without the need for any other programme i.e. no web browser or pdf file viewer is needed. It abounds with thoughtful details - some are practical others, e.g. the superb splash screen, aesthetic. Papers ranks as one of the all-time-best Mac programmes.
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| Jun 29 2007 |
ANON BUD Great potential. Nice GUI. Love the full screen mode and ability to add notes to PDFs. Way too buggy right now for me to use: mysteriously loses data, confusing import results, not all that user friendly.
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| Jun 6 2007 |
EEFF a lovely application. well thought through and i really missed this ONE scientific app that can help me collect my papers. but there is one litle downside. why is there no other search engine the PubMed? thats a bit of a drawback for me since i have over 7.000 papers and need to type everything in manually...not fun. and it crashed when i tried to import 600 papers. it worked though when i took 300... anyhow, the searchengine is maybe an idea for the future... therefor, some wonderful brightshining 4 stars
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| Jun 12 2007 |
GEOFFREY HUTCHISON I talked to Alex at WWDC and there's definitely a search engine plugin platform intended. So this should change soon.
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| Apr 29 2007 |
CONROY.R Thinking different for biomedical researchers For anyone in the biomedical field this application fills a very important role: keeping a library of PDF documents linked to their PubMed references, and allowing you to manage, index and read them in comfort. The last point is actually very important. For the first time, here's an application that uses my whole screen to read PDFs, preventing me from having to print them off and leave them somewhere. The PubMed integration is very well thought out. The integration with EndNote (the Windows of bibliographic database management) is also vital. At present, you can import and export, but clearly Papers needs to be able to synchronise with EndNote libraries. For the price, this is a gem. When you consider the cost of EndNote (those regular, trivial and expensive "upgrades") this looks like a really honest piece of work!
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| Apr 24 2007 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS Sorry for the many typos in the comment below. I obviously mean "Papers" where I have "Pages". One other thing -- there doesn't seem to be a global content search. You can search content when viewing a particular article though. Not clear if it does automatic PDF+TXT conversion. At this point, DEVONThink Pro seems to be a better option. However I wish there were something that integrated DTP, MS Word, Endnote X, Bookends, Mellel, and something like this.
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| Apr 24 2007 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS Promising. But I'm not happy with the way this modifies my files and would not recommend that anyone use this at this point without know what it is doing. I dragged a pdf file in my own folders organized by journal in the Finder, to the main windows of Pages, and it moved that file to Pages own propriety file structure in ~/Pages/Unknown/. Not only that, it renamed the file as well to "2004". Not nice do do by default. It somehow guessed the year was "2004" but there's nothing I can see that would have lead to such a guess -- not the file modification date and nothing in the text of the pdf itself. (The test article was actually 1967 ;-) Also, it's unclear at this point what a workflow would looklike that would integrate with EndNote (or bookends, etc). You can export to EndNote (nice, but not tested), but this wouldn't necessarily allow easy synchronization. Also the only integrated "repository" is PubMed -- I wonder what it would be like if it supported other major databases for PDFs, like JSTOR.
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| Apr 25 2007 |
TUKKERTOM The renaming of the PDFs is editable in the Preferences of the program, and I think that like iTunes you don't care about the filename, you can easily find the files via Papers anyhow.
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| Apr 25 2007 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS iTunes may move your files when adding to it's library but it doesn't rename them, and certainly not by default. And one thing that differntiates a pdf file and an mp3 file is metadata tags, so even if an audio file is renamed you can rename it back based on tags. I also notice in Papers prefs the default is to "copy" to library, and "delete original file" is not selected by default. Nevertheless on my test file the original was not copied but moved. The rest of it is nicely thought out as long as you then "tag" your pdfs immediately by author and journal, I can live with the reoganization. The difficulty comes if you decide you don't like papers before you get around to "tagging" everything. Because those "tags" i presume are internal to the Papers database and do not become file properties. I recommend that the original path be retained, and when exporting the option be given to restore name and path. Anyway, like I said this is promising. As soon as a) global searches are possible and fast and b) there is some tighter integration with EndNote and/or BookEnds, and c) social sciences & humanities repositories are supported internally, this will be very worthwhile.
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| Apr 24 2007 |
PROTEASOME Awesome 1.0 release. The full-screen PDF option is impressive as well as the match functionality. It would be nice if adding notes on the PDF files were more elaborate, such as in the form of multiple colored stickies.
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| Mar 25 2007 |
M DESAI Enjoying Papers, but the thing crashes a lot. Have a macbook... anyone else having this problem?
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| Mar 18 2007 |
SJHA Papers, even at this beta stage, is an excellent application. It combines within one programme the ability to organise references stored as PDF files; to read them (full-screen possible); and to search PubMed and import reference details. This tight integration makes for an efficient tool which I would regards as essential for all biomedical scientists who like to store reprints as PDF files. Although still not fully complete it is worth 4 stars at this stage; and when the planned additions for the final release are in place it will be a 5-star programme in my view
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 | Feb 8 2007 |
ALEXANDER GRIEKSPOOR Hi everyone, I understand the concerns of those people from different fields than the biomedical one. We don't agree with the last person to see 4Peaks is something everyone can use, what about a mechanical engineer, when will he do DNA sequencing. In that respect 4Peaks is even more narrowly focused to molecular biologists. Having said that, Yes, Papers is mainly focused on the biomedical domain at the moment. But this 2nd preview is already one step in a broader direction as you can now import and export from applications like Endnote, Bookends, Bibdesk etc. And hence it's can already be of use to anyone in science. Even more important, the above is a first step in taking Papers to a much broader audience. We will incorporate more searchengines soon, but we have to start somewhere, and that somewhere happened to be the field where we are originally from, not without any reason given our expertise. There is still quite some work to do to make Papers really 1.0 worthy, we think it's best if we focus on that first instead of expanding the already large feature set of this program in even further. We kindly ask for your patients and hope that you still give Papers a try if it were only to give us feedback on how we could improve Papers to fit the workflow in your specific area of science. Mek & Tosj
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| Feb 8 2007 |
An impressive beta2. Papers is shaping up well. For what it's worth, here's my vote for raising the priority of supporting more search engines, starting with PubMed. | |
| Mar 12 2007 |
UMIJIN 4 peaks has a broader appeal in that molecular biology is used in nearly all biological disciplines these days. Maybe not by all researchers in those fields, but it has a representation in nearly all biology fields. However, medline only helps biomedical research, pretty much. That was my point. And yes, Papers has a great start. And yes, some of us expected that you'd add more search engines in the future. It's good that you actually come out and state that at this time. Looking forward future versions of Papers.
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| Feb 8 2007 |
UMIJIN I third the comment about limited application to 'medical' related research. Sure, medline has lots of stuff. However, I'm not finding much in the way of arthropod phylogenetics or general animal techniques for my molecular work. When we get to ecology, which is more along my lines. Medline is useless. The 4peaks app is something everyone can use. Papers is to narrowly focused.
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| Jan 27 2007 |
RICHTHEONE I definitely agree with DJC0 make it all-science aware, or put up a warning sign of it's limited application.
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| Jan 5 2007 |
FABO Hm. I'm using the excellent (and free) BibDesk (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17063) for auto-archieving, searching, tagging and reading my papers. Great if you use LaTeX, as it automatically handles the citations using BibTex. And it also looks nice.
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| Jan 5 2007 |
DJC99 Umm, i think by "scientific articles" you mean "medical articles". Most scientific journals are not related to medicine. Perhaps you should mention this in the description to save the rest of the scientific world the download (and subsequent delete). Even better, expand it so that the other sciences can use it, since the software actually looks quite nice!
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| Jan 27 2007 |
RICHTHEONE I definitely agree with DJC0 make it all-science aware, or put up a warning sign of it's limited application.
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