On 02/20/09 07:42, "Michael McCracken" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Douglas Stebila <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2009-Feb-19, at 1:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> Are you aware of the Web Group?
>>
>> The Web Group is nice, but (a) does not fit naturally into many
>> people's workflow, and (b) does not allow for adding importers without
>> altering the BibDesk source code.
>
> If we solve (b), does (a) go away? Web group works well enough for me
> that I now start in BibDesk when I start looking for a reference.
> Maybe the problem is just that it isn't polished enough yet to get
> people to change habits?
I guess it also depends on whether you're looking for a reference in a
search engine, or just happen to run across one via RSS/e-mail/PDF. I use
Compendex, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science for most of my directed
searching. Web of Science I can search directly in BD, of course, but the
web group doesn't help with any of these.
For browsing, I typically use OmniWeb since all URLs open in that anyway.
Polishing aside, the web group UI is too different to use it as my primary
browser (I'm a creature of habit, and I've been using OW almost exclusively
since OS X Public Beta). Since I have to download the RIS citation anyway
from most of the sites I end up at, it's easier to use my browser. I end up
with RIS and PDF files for a given article, and those are easy to add via
drag-and-drop from the download folder.
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