On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2007, at 08:26, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > >> On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>>
<snip> >>> I mainly have PDF files, with the odd HTML/PostScript/TIFF, all >>> managed with BibDesk's AutoFile. They're linked to references in >>> BibDesk, since I'd go nuts using more than one program for the same >>> task. One plus for BibDesk: it doesn't care what file format you >>> attach, and you can search the contents of the attached files as >>> well >>> as the reference metadata. You can also associate multiple files >>> with >>> a single reference. >> >> I didn't know that this feature exists…cool… > > Aaargh! I'm half convinced that people write new apps for reference/ > PDF management because they don't know BibDesk can do this. How can > we advertise it more effectively? I've been using it for years, and > just assume that others use it as well. How about building the web-site a way that it propagates the most important/interesting features. I think about shorter texts with more highlights (e.g. bold letters than 'text'). The features-sites right now are more like manuals than "commercials for the features (and no one reads the manual when he first browses the site - I'm usually a manual reader as well but rarely with software…in the Mac-world I have often the feeling that the most interesting stuff is already propagated through the software and/or the web-site of the software). E.g. propagating auto-file through software: Activate it automatically and give a warning window which can be switched off (don't show this window again) or add some kind of assistant which will give you the opportunity to switch features like this on or off when you first start the program (and give the user the ability to start it later again) Btw. I just searched 5 minutes for the auto-consolidate-command (I expected it in File or in Database -- in the help it isn't mentioned where it is. The help should mention those stuff . Instead of "Choose this command to scan all selected publications in the file for linked files. A dialog will be opened that asks you for some options. You can find it in.", it would be better to have a sentence like this "Choose auto-consolidate (Publication->Auto-Consolidate) to scan all selected publications in the file for linked files. A dialog will be opened that asks you for some options." Nice that it says "Consolidate 5 files" when I chose 5 files but the feature is called "auto-consolidate". Therefore it should be "auto- consolidate" or "auto-consolidate 5 files" in the menu (I prefer the first one - menu-items should be static imho and not dynamic except for greying out stuff) > >>>>> I just found out that I could use iTunes for managing PDFs. It >>>>> allows >>>> me to do a fast search on them (Genre: Papers; Artist: Author-Name; >>>> Title: Paper-name; Comments: Keywords) and they are organized in >>>> one >>>> place (iTunes-Music-library) which gets backed up regularly. >>> >>> I'm guessing it doesn't allow you to search by content, though? It >>> really depends on what you need. >> >> Most of the "interesting" stuff is non-OCR-JSTOR-stuff anyway -- I >> gave up the illusion to search the content of my pdfs (and stuff in >> iTunes can be handled by Spotlight). Some kind of tagging and not >> thinking about the managing in the file-system is more important to >> me. > > True. The disadvantage of Spotlight is that you can't limit the scope > of its search easily. Regardless, I gave up organizing by hand in the > Finder, and now all searching is handled by BibDesk (metadata and > content). Bibdesk can search content? Good that I started this thread… I use Bibdesk now for over one year and those two features are really really good… Niels ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
