I am afraid, I do not use Web option in Bibdesk for searching references.
The biggest reason I do not use web for importing references is - I use
drag-and-drop to add entries and make Bibdesk auto-generate the cite key and
use the same key to auto-file the PDF for me. I have a pattern for it -
'year-authors'. This helps me identify the paper quickly and when the paper
was published even by looking at the file name. Further, when I am preparing
a document in Latex, I can just see the file and add references, because the
file name is also my cite key. When I import from web in Bibdesk, it uses
the cite key from the website (ex. on ACM it uses a number). That number is
not very helpful.
As a suggestion - if we had an option to enforce cite-key generation for all
entries even if imported from web, it will be cool and encourage more users
to use that option. If such an option exist, please let me know and also
ignore my comment.
Thanks,
Sumit
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Michael McCracken <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Sumit Narayan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Sorry, I was referring to Last Import and not Recent Import.
>
> Understood.
>
> >
> > The reason why I do not use it is because once I import a file, it is
> > anyway selected (highlighted) in the main library. Further, I have
> > smart folders for previous 1 days import and 1 weeks import.
> >
> > I was just wondering if there was any option to remove it. I am sure
> > it is useful in some cases, but because of smart folders, it appeared
> > redundant on my screen.
>
> Ah, OK. Thanks for filling in the details. It's always nice to know
> the reasons behind a question or request. Sometimes it helps point to
> a better overall solution, but in this case I think you're stuck with
> those groups. I think you might find that the last-import group will
> be very handy sometimes when the transient selection goes away but you
> still need to get at those last couple entries you added.
> As an aside, since web group is kind of my baby, do you use it? Do you
> search for references using the web at all?
>
> Thanks,
> -mike
>
> > --Sumit
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Michael McCracken
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Maxwell, Adam R <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> On 01/29/09 08:51, "Sumit Narayan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there any way to remove Web and Recent Import from side bar?
> >>>
> >>> Only if you can modify the source and recompile it yourself.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Adam's right - they are baked in, and I don't think there would be
> >> much support for making that configurable.
> >>
> >> However, I'm curious what your reasons are - Sumit, why do you want to
> >> remove those two?
> >>
> >> I can understand that maybe the Web group is not useful for you, since
> >> it doesn't cover everything, but why is Recent Import not useful?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -mike
> >>
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