I've spent the last few months designing an "academic workflow" for my PhD
studies, which integrates BibDesk (for citation management), Skim (for
taking notes and highlights) and my Kindle with a DokuWiki installation
(which I run locally, and rsync to update on my server). I've written a ton
of glue-scripts in Ruby using AppleScript to tie these applications
together, and enhance the functionality of DokuWiki (and also a small plugin
for displaying citations in DokuWiki, inspired by the refnotes plugin).
I made a screencast showing how it all comes together here, and have tried
to document everything technical as well:
http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start (and you can also see how the wiki
looks - although as you see on the screencast there is quite a lot of
functionality that only works on my local computer).
I absolutely love BibDesk, perhaps the only thing is that I wish it were
easier to import citations from Google Scholar _with_ PDFs. To overcome this
I wrote a little tool that let's me quickly attach the most recently
downloaded file in Downloads to the currently selected publication in
BibDesk - I use this multiple times every day, and it really makes my life
easier. Also automatic export from BibDesk to Kindle (converting PDF and
giving it proper titles and authors etc).
Stian
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