On 6/13/07, Simon Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 13.06.2007, at 20:00, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > > > Personally, I'm quite happy BibDesk has stayed far, far away from the > > "Delicious Generation" look of apps coming out these days which have > > a pretty facade, but then have serious usability and functionality > > problems. (see: Papers) When a better UI improves functionality or > > workflow, I'm all for it, but when I need to get things done, BibDesk > > is the most valuable application I use. > > I agree completely. Papers is very similar to Delicious Library in > this respect. While DL is just an Amazon frontend with lots of > chrome, Papers is currently little more than a shiny Pubmed interfce. >
Well, we all have different opinions. I personally am heartened by the magnanimity and humility that Christiaan and Michael showed in their congratulatory comments about Papers, without a hint of disparaging remarks about them. It is entirely possible that Papers is not good at roundtrip import/export to/from BibTex. But there are things that it does that BibDesk doesn't, and that immediately struck _me_ as more important than moving in/out of BibTex. In fact, BibDesk is probably more robust and mature in many tasks. Doing a thorough comparison will take a while. But give credit where it is due -- a couple of Ph.D. students slogged for a very long time to create a product that won an award from the very company that stands for everything they admire in a computer company. That is a wonderful accomplishment, and deserves congratulations. It also provides points of comparison that can be helpful in improving BD, and hopefully eventually Papers can improve as well by copying/getting inspiration from BD. It will only make the Mac bib manager category of software space that much richer. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/ S&T Policy Fellow, National Academy of Sciences http://www.nas.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
