On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Can you make it so that we can use it without reading any
> documentation? :-).
>
> I'm just switching to Bibdesk (from many years of using BibView under
> X11), and I have some questions. Some are related to autofile, some
> are more general.
>
> 1) Right now I keep my files in several bibliography file, but I've
> been thinking of combining them into a single bib file. (This would
> mean assigning them keywords to be able to sort them, I think.)
> Recommendations? Pros/cons?
>
> 2) Bibdesk keeps all the pdfs in a single folder, correct? Is it
> possible to have a separate location for each bib file (question, not
> feature request). I ask because of 1) above; I'm not sure I want to
> mix all my pdfs if I continue to use separate bib files.
You can change it that it creates different folders in a sub-folder
>
> 3) Can Bibdesk rename the pdfs when it moves/links them? For example,
> I would like to have all my pdfs named CiteKey.pdf. Is that possible?
> (This is a feature request.)
Yp - just play around with Preferences -> Autofile -> Local URL-Format
I use now: %a1/%Y/%T5 %f{Cite Key}%e (can be easily modified through
menus in the preference)
Which gives something like: archive-folder/author/year/title cite-
key.pdf
> 4) I can apparently customize the local-url. Why would I want to do
> that?
See the above
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