On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Peter Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Peter Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Bibdesk is nice for manage my references (and getting a good bib-file > > > > out of it) and pdfs in the file-system but it is missing the > full-text > > > > search over the pdfs like Papers is doing and it gets the whole > > > > web-search thing more nicely done than Bibdesk (like automatically > > > > search for the most recent papers from the selected author or from > the > > > > journal and stuff like that) and the interface just looks overall > > > > quite nice. > > > > > > Bibdesk has full content searching, when I type something into the > > > search bar "File Content" comes up along with "Title", "Author" etc. > > > It's a bit slow the first time as it builds the search index, but fast > > > afterwards (is it cached at all after quit?). I've been using the > > > nightly build for a while, perhaps this isn't in the release version > > > yet? > > > > You are right…well, it never occured to me that the file content is > > searched as well… > > well it seems then that only the nicer interface and the way the > > web-search stuff works are only points for Papers > > I've never used Papers before, would you mind explaining what it is > that you like and how it differs from BibDesk?
It's hard to explain. They say from themself that it's like iTunes but for PDFs. Imagine Bibdesk with a nicer done interface (that's a matter of taste though) an integrated PDF viewer with some note-taking capabilities (stripped down Skim directly integrated into the app) and even the web search-capabilities are very similar but it's somehow nicer done in Papers. In addition there is stuff like selecting an author and automatically is the web searched for recently published articles from authors with the same name (they say "same author" but it's authors with same name) or if you select a journal the web is automatically searched for new articles…I would suggest that you try it out to see the differences. But it is nearly unusable for people from sciences outside nature sciences (because there are no reference-possibilities really besides stuff from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not really possible to reference in Papers for example) and the bibtex-support is quite rudimentary. Niels ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
