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Papers is your personal library of science.
Read, Write, Cite. Your research will never be the same with Papers2 and Magic Manuscripts.
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much, much more. Welcome to your personal library of research!
Read, Write, Cite. Your research will never be the same with Papers2 and Magic Manuscripts.
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much, much more. Welcome to your personal library of research!
What's New
Version 3.0.16:
- Addresses further potential database corruption issues.
- Adds improved BibTeX import and export, the ability to rearrange authors through drag and drop, and further inspector improvements.
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.7 or later
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Papers is your personal library of science.
Read, Write, Cite. Your research will never be the same with Papers2 and Magic Manuscripts.
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much, much more. Welcome to your personal library of research!
Read, Write, Cite. Your research will never be the same with Papers2 and Magic Manuscripts.
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much, much more. Welcome to your personal library of research!
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greenery reviewed on 17 Dec 2013
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Jeremyan reviewed on 27 Nov 2013
- They never fix things properly.
- They still try all they can to lock you into their software:
- PDF annotation not viewable outside the software.
- Now PDFs are stored with MP3 on iPod type of cryptic names and folders, making it impossible for you to manually navigate your PDF library any more.
- Also the library is a single package file, like iPhoto library. Say goodbye for using other apps to access the folder structure!
The Papers 3 trial made me realize they are trying even more lock-in, and still haven't implemented PDF annotation that is universal to other apps. To sync with iPad, you have BUY again Papers 3 on iPad/iPhone. This totally sucks because the old version cannot do the sync properly at all. So they burned us, and want us to pay again for sync that only works with Dropbox.
I would recommend everybody finding an alternative.
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Simonm reviewed on 25 Nov 2013
I also bought Papers 2 only three months before the new version and unlike nicer developers (there are plenty out there) the company gave no forewarning of their Papers 3 development and release schedule so I ended up with software that in all likelihood had already ceased development and vital maintenance support.
The €29 upgrade price is too steep to tempt me to do so considering my frustrations with the previous version, which despite promises didn't enhance or simplify my workflow at all.
Another thing they don't seem to want you to know (based on their website) is that they were bought out by Springer, hence the Windows version and the strangely sleep-inducing demonstration video posted on their site.
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They lost my trust and as such I won't continue supporting this software by upgrading and I've even uninstalled Papers 2.
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Kvarnelis reviewed on 19 Nov 2013
Mekentosj botched the upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 so badly that they had to close down their support forums. Eventually the bugs were ironed out and the application worked excellently, apart from the somewhat damaged iOS sync. In moving from 2.0 to 3.0 they insist that we use Dropbox, which is just terrible. I have a 35gb library so now I need to pay an extra $10 a month for a service that I don't like, don't trust and don't want. How terrible.
Please support better services like the Synology Cloud Station, WebDAV, or even the old iOS sync. I can't rate this higher since such crucial functionality was broken.
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Mugsuk reviewed on 19 Nov 2013
Why you would rather pay for Papers, a dysfunctional and costly software, is beyond me.
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MatthewK1821 reviewed on 18 Nov 2013
Although the iOS synchronisation was a dog, to put it kindly, the requirement for a paid DropBox account to sync libraries larger than 2GB (mine is 12GB) is venial and lazy. If I pay for two of your products, don't make me pay for an ongoing file synch service because you can't transfer data between them cleanly.
Really disappointing. Hope we see a rapid improvement, at which time I will update to a positive rating.
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Mikegem reviewed on 17 Nov 2013
I've used Papers since v1. I have a fairly large library with over 14,000 references, each with an attached pdf.
Issues I've had with Papers 3:
1. The process of importing my Papers2 library to Papers3 broke some of the links between my references and their attached pdfs. After the import, I noticed that some of my references didn't have their pdfs anymore, and other references had the wrong pdfs attached. It appeared that Papers3 lost track of attachment data during the import process.
I was able to confirm this by opening the same references in Papers2. References that indicated no pdf, or the wrong pdf, in Papers3 were undamaged in Papers2.
So far, I have no fix for this issue. I've tried doing a Papers Library rebuild in Papers2 before importing to Papers3, have checked and repaired permissions on the Papers2 library files before import, Papers3 still breaks and changes reference/pdf links during import, seemingly at random.
2. The import process also generated duplicate references. Again, I confirmed this by checking the reference in Papers2 - no duplicate then.
3. Papers 3 is *very* slow compared to Papers2. Running on my MacBook ProR with an SSD, Papers2 is ready to go 8 seconds after launch. Papers3 takes over 3 minutes (!) to open the same library. Slow launch persists after several days (so it's certain that Papers3 wasn't indexing its new library).
4. The UI has been prettied up at the expense of functionality. The library view shows fewer references at a glance due to display formatting changes. It takes more clicks now to accomplish some common operations than in Papers2.
5. Some behavior is odd. Drag & drop of a reference with its linked pdf creates a file with an alias attribute, but a couple of megabytes size. Exporting the same reference as "pdf files and media" creates the pdf file it should, about 200KB size.
There's more, but that's enough to give you the idea. I don't have enough confidence in Papers3 to use the product to manage information that's critical to my work. Presumably, the product will get more reliable as it goes through its beta development. More problematic is what I see as the developer's turn towards a pretty UI at the expense of user friction using the app. Reliability and speed do me more good than esthetic similarity to iOS7.
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Pedroj reviewed on 01 Oct 2013
I have a huge library (22500 references with ca. 2700 pdf attachments). The scroll in the Library window does not refresh adequately, lefting overlapping lines.
The sync with iOS version is done *exclusively* via DropBox. So, for large libraries you'll want a paid DB subscription. There is no way to use alternative cloud repositories. Moreover, you must sync the whole thing: no way to select specific references or collections to sync.
The way a reference is edited is clumsy, i.e., in the addition of authors etc, which uses a preemptive filling from a list, or just adding the year of publication (I don't need day and month).
I noted a better implementation of the proxy access (e.g., to Web of Science) through institutional gateways.
The interface is iOS 7 and is nicely done.
I had problems with the importing of the my old Papers2 library, and had to restart the process twice.
My advice: don't use this as a primary tool for now, especially if you need syncing with an iPad or iPhone. It can co-exist with the previous Papers2, so you'll be getting back to use your old version quite often.
I've been a user of Papers since version 1. But frankly, it's getting harder to keep using it. It is NOT a smooth application to use and manage your references, and this is a must (smooth use) for people handling lots of bibliographic material.
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Yes, I know this is beta software for Mac, but at least they shouldn't have released the iOS app.
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It is not ready for primetime and it is a sham that they are asking for $$ for the upgrade before it is ready.
Problems that I have encountered thus far:
- Crashes ... a lot.
- Crashes on importing Papers2 library; repeatedly....
- High CPU (100%+) and RAM (6 GIG +) consumption bringing my MacPro to a standstill, when doing simple tasks (i.e., Export as Endnote XML)
- New iOS 7 inspired UI lacks the functionality of v2 and requires a rethink of ones workflow (see Dcuwcy review below) For example: (1) the edit button has been removed, (2) there is no article preview, (3) the menu items (where they exist) have been replaced with relatively nondescript icons making it difficult to transition from Papers2.
- Sync requires dropbox service; however, if your library contains thousand of pdfs you will need to upgrade to a premium account @ $10 a month. There is no option for
Unfortunately, v3 doesn’t address some of the long standing deficiencies such as providing a preview of a reference nor does it allow for viewing more than one article at a time.
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Dcuwcy reviewed on 25 Sep 2013
Switching from version 2 is not working properly.
No pdf or supplemental file will be attached to the paper 3 library. When the update works. My crash log is full of Papers entries.
The new GUI looks fine, but if you know version 2, you can forget about that. You need to rethink your workflow and - more worse - the designer of the new "modern design" forget to implement the usability. No intuitive way to use the application. It is more a try and error game.
Finally, one of my favorite feature missing, a "save search and use it later again" seems to be missing even in v3.
Sorry folks, no money from me for this update.
Maybe next version.
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