Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could answer some questions I have about BibDesk.
I've been using it for a while for a large collection of PDFs I have and I
absolutely love it, so I'd like to thank all the developers for such a great
program.
I've tried quite a few other programs before, none of which I've liked as
much as BibDesk. One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I
drag one of my PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to
automatically try to retrieve information based on Google Scholar if I type
in the title, etc. Is there a way to do something similar in BibDesk? I've
been able to import information from Google Scholar and other sites through
BibDesk before, but only if do it before I add a blank entry with a PDF. Is
there a way to look up the information after an entry is created (from
adding a PDF there)? Also, in recent versions, it gives me a warning
whenever I add more than one PDF/blank entries that the cite key is missing.
Since I know about it and will add it later, is there an option that will
allow me to turn the warning off?
Also, when there is a translator for a book, what field does it go under? I
didn't see a translator field, so I created one, but I was just wondering
what others in general used for this kind of situation, if there is an
option I do not know of.
I also really like being able to view all the keywords on the side pane and
browse by those. I was wondering if there were other "browse by" options, in
particular I'm interested in browsing by the series title, showing all the
volumes of a particular series.
Finally, if my computer fails for some reason and I have to back up all of
my data, would the data links between the pdf and bib file remain in place?
For instance, if I retrieve a copy of my bibliography file from a source and
also a copy of all the pdfs that it had linked to, will the links break or
will it automatically know where to find them? Would they have to maintain
the same path?
Thanks a million!
Nick
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