Hi Danushka, I use PDF Expert. I sync my BibDesk folder with this app, and then open and annotate any PDF. The annotations are synced back to my computer through Dropbox. It doesn't use the .bib file at all - I've just set up BibDesk to change the filenames to be recognizable enough so that I can search for the ones I want to read. Not ideal (e.g. doesn't show to-read tags), but it works well enough. Perhaps you can set the app you mentioned to open PDFs in PDF Expert.
Katie ________________________________ From: Danushka Bollegala <danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 3:44 PM To: For general discussion about using BibDesk <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] Accessing PDFs on iPad CAUTION: External to USask. Verify sender and use caution with links and attachments. Forward suspicious emails to phish...@usask.ca Thank you Christian for the quick response and for this great piece of software! As for dropbox synced folders between Mac and iPad https://apps.apple.com/us/app/references/id1481843213 can extract the linked file urls correctly and this works fine (although you have to reload the bib file used by bibdesk from the iPad app every time you add a paper on the Mac to bibdesk because the App is just a read only viewer that operates on a copy). Anyway I was just curious to know what other bibdesk users do when they want to read papers that add to their bibdesk library on Mac, on an iPad. Thanks in advance Danushka On 14 Jul 2020, at 22:25, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 14 Jul 2020, at 22:41, Danushka Bollegala <danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com<mailto:danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Bibdesk users I am sure this question must have been asked before but I cannot find the answer. I was wondering what tools/apps you use to access your bibdesk library when you read papers on an iPad. It is not a problem if the iPad app cannot edit the bibdesk entries or add new papers to the bibtex library, but what I am looking for is a way to read the linked PDFs from the iPad. For example, I have all my papers and the bibdesk library (.bib file) all in dropbox and synced across Mac and iPad. So the papers are already there in the iPad but what I am looking for is a way to find them via the bibdesk library on the iPad. I used PocketBib (when it was still available and syncing via dropbox) for this purpose and see that https://apps.apple.com/us/app/references/id1481843213 also enables you to copy the bib file from Mac to iPad via dropbox but it does not sync when I add a paper from Bibdesk on Mac. I assume there are many people who use iPads to read/annotate paper PDFs and would greatly appreciate if you could share your workflow for this. Thank you in advance Danushka The data in the linked files fields is specific to BibDesk, so you would not be able to see them from any other app, on macOS or iOS. As for local file fields, its name and format may also change between apps. The problem is that the bibtex format simply does not have a standard way to link to files, so it is necessarily app specific. Christiaan _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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