Bookends

Bookends is a full-featured bibliography/reference and information-management system for students and professionals.

• Bookends uses the cloud to sync reference libraries on all the Macs you use. Access the power of Bookends directly from Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, or MS Word (including Word 2016): Bookends allows you to scan your existing word-processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. You can also scan Apple Pages '08, '09, and 5, Manuscripts.app, and LibreOffice/OpenOffice 4 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor.
• Bookends allows you to share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform. And with Bookends, you can directly search and import references from numerous sources:
  • PubMed
  • Web of Science
  • JSTOR
  • Google Scholar
  • Amazon
  • Library of Congress
  • arXiv
  • and hundreds of other online sources
  Or use a built-in browser to download references with PDF's and/or Web pages. Also, with automatic searches of PubMed, you can discover articles as soon as they're published. Bookends allows for powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, virtual groups, and smart folders as well as tag clouds that make hierarchical searches easy.
• Bookends also offers a robust assortment of file attachment features:
  • Attach any file (such as a PDF) to a reference and view or open it instantly.
  • Automatically rename and organize PDF files on-the-fly.
  • Automatically download and attach the PDF of an article from the Internet if you have access permission.
  • Automatically locate and attach PDF's on your hard drive.
  • Annotate and markup PDFs and have the information instantly accessible in notecards.
  Easily migrate references and attachments from other reference managers to Bookends.
• Sync your library with Bookends for iOS on your iOS devices, so that you have your references and PDF's with you wherever you are.

Note: Bookends 12.x is a paid upgrade for owners of Bookends 11 and earlier and requires a new serial number. It is free for anyone who bought or upgraded to Bookends 11 on or after January 1, 2013. The upgrade price for a single license is $29 for those who bought Bookends before January 1, 2013.

Major update to the database engine:

• This should improve performance and stability. Note that libraries created with Bookends 12.8.1 are not backward compatible. When you open a library made with an older version Bookends will make a copy and update the copy to the current version. The older library will be untouched and can still be opened by the older version of Bookends if necessary.

Modified internal database structure:

• The schema simplifies storage and retrieval of of attachments and color labels. Note that any existing SQL/REGEX searches involving these properties will need to be recreated.

The menu option: Refs -> First Selected scrolls to the first selected reference:

• The keyboard shortcut is Control-Command-S.

Set a default PDF reader in preferences:

• This is useful if you are using cloud sync with Bookends for iOS. In that instance the Finder will try and fail to open any PDFs in the attachment folder in Bookends itself. You can prevent this by assigning a default PDF reader in Bookends preferences.

Removed direct import from Delicious Library:

• Now you can tell the Finder to open .bib files with Bookends for import when the file is double clicked.

Reference navigation changes

• The navigation commands in the Refs menu (First, Last, etc.) now apply to the references showing in the list. Previously these commands caused the All group to be shown before navigating to the reference.

File -> Export Attachments will be enabled if any selected references has an attachment

• Previously Bookends just examined the first selected reference for attachments.

Email individual PDFs

• The option to email the PDF being viewed and the reference metadata has been added to the PDF pop-up menu. This allows you to send just the PDF you're looking at, as opposed to all the PDFs that may be attached to the selected reference, which is what the E-mail button and right-click options do.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an error that could be thrown when switching from a list sorted by color label to the single column view. Fixed an issue with some PDFs where a last page with a null label value caused an error or crash when attaching. Assigned Control-Option-Command-D to View -> All Fields to avoid a conflict with the macOS dictionary lookup shortcut. Fixed a bug that prevented Bookends from immediately offering the correct import filter for RIS, BibTeX, and EndNote Export (Refer) text files. References found on Google Books are correctly imported by drag and drop. Fixed a bug that caused some boolean online searches to either fail or throw an error. Fixed a bug in the Bibliography window in which the number of hits shown was incorrect. Fixed an issue where the OK button was always disabled when the Global Change -> Modify File Tags dialog opened even if the combobox had default text. Fixed a bug in assigning the proper text encoding when doing a drag and drop find/replace in a Term List. Fixed a bug that prevented changes made by drag and drop in a Term List from being synced. Fixed a bug in scanning Word documents where the * metacharacter was ignored for author-date citations. Fixed a bug in author-date scanning that caused the authors to be omitted form the second citation of the same reference. Fixed a bug in the format catalog that would cause the same formatted text to be output repeatedly regardless of the format name. Fixed a bug that prevented changes made to Terms by drag and drop in a Term List from being synced. Fixed a bug that prevented the Spotlight search from finding attachments whose name contained a colon. Fixed a bug where changing the subscript metacharacter didn't stick.


Other:

• Bookends will only import one DOI from an online search even if it is present in multiple tags
• Removed export of references as a "Bookends 10-11.1.8"-compatible file
• Get PDF From Internet works with more publishers
• The temp citation metacharacters [- (replace parens with square brackets and exclude authors) and = (suppress Ibid.) work with Mellel