Academic reference manager and bibliography software.
Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid, many university library catalogs, various Ovid databases (e.g., Books in Print, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, PsychINFO -- all by subscription) Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature database that supports Z39.50 or SRU, and MARC or Dublin Core record syntax.
Sente updates the results of your searches each day so that you can easily stay current with new results. This means that you will learn about important new papers as soon as they appear in any of the databases you search. And the results will remain available until you find the time to review them, even if that happens when you are not connected to the Internet.
Sente provides numerous tools to help you keep your reference library organized, including: unlimited custom data fields, unlimited custom keywords, star ratings, custom statuses, and filters that can use any of these criteria to automatically produce custom subsets of your data.
When it is time to write up your own research, Sente takes care of the details of properly formating citations and bibliographies. Sente includes over 100 pre-defined bibliography styles (e.g., Vancouver, APA, Chicago, Science, etc.) as well as an easy-to-use bibliography format editor that lets you modify the supplied formats or create your own.
A fully-functional, free version of Sente is available here at MacUpdate for download from www.thirdstreetsoftware.com. The pricing schema can be found here.
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Sync has been offline for three weeks and despite several emails no answer from support. time to move on.
You are incorrect, Bookends (and Papers) can import as many references as you like from PubMed and hundreds of online sources to the local database, where you can do whatever you want with them (refine searches, cite in manuscripts, annotate, etc.). Please contact tech support (support@sonnysoftware.com) and we'll help you with this. Note that these topics are covered, with images, in the various PDF and video tutorials and the Bookends User Guide (Help menu).
Jon
Sonny Software
It’s a great piece of software but seems on track to become abandonware. The last update to both the Mac and iOS apps has been at least a year ago. A coming update will only ensure that the app keeps functioning with El Capitan. In the past months the support site has been all but ignored by the TSS team. User requests are ignored as a matter of policy. Several threads have been launched in recent months by worried users inquiring what the future of Sente looks like. These questions have been ignored and met with deafening silence, as have personal emails.
Meanwhile Sente’s main competitor Bookends has released an update recently with vastly improved import from Sente, a clear sign. To be clear: I own Sente as well as Bookends and actually switched to Sente over a year ago because of its Quicktags system, ability to nest smart groups into smart groups, and overall better GUI. I have invested a lot of time in transitioning from Bookends to Sente and my academic workflow is very much built around it. I also rely heavily on the iPad app which is also great. I can understand temporary silences and I am willing to give a lot of credit to developers if the app is worth it. But the company's current disdain for its customers suggests the end of the app might be in sight.
As for alternatives I would highly recommend Bookends, which easily matches Endnote in terms of functionality, and support is absolutely stellar.
It was very unusual. As a longtime Sente user, I have found the product excellent, and the company's support responsive and valuable. My PhD, written long ago in a previous century, was done using End Note.
I replaced End Note (thank goodness) with Sente. I have tried Bookends and Paperless as well. All the products have relative strengths and weaknesses.
Do give the Sente software a chance if you are serious about bibliographic databases.
I do also find, from time to time, that the adage, "the customer is always right" to be a bit misleading. Knowing the company, and its diligent team, I do wonder whether there may have been some shortcomings on your end , too.
I only mention the latter because you have made your concerns public in a global (Internet) forum. I thought another perspective might be worthwhile.
Good luck!