Thank you all for the very insightful suggestions, and for taking the time to explain. My workflow is so far aligned with Kevin's one, and with what Christiaan suggests. I think I will progressively switch towards Andreas's workflow.
Speak soon! On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:27 AM M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users < bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Very easy and I do this actually. All you have to do is after you latex > the file once, drop the .aux file on top of your master file that is opened > in bibdesk. Bibdesk will select all the matching entries. Now copy these, > open a new bibtex file from Bibdesk and paste what you copied into that > file. Now save the file in the directory where you keep the file. That is > now the file you share with collaborators. > > > > ==Tamer > > > > *From: *Daniele Avitabile <d.avitab...@gmail.com> > *Reply-To: *BibDesk <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > *Date: *Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 06:00 > *To: *BibDesk <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > *Subject: *[Bibdesk-users] Working with a master and a local .bib file > > > > Dear All, > > > > I'm relatively new to BibDesk, and I am trying to improve my workflow. I > have tried to search for this information but could not find it, so feel > free to redirect me to the documentation, or other discussions. It seems so > basic to me that I'm almost sure it's been discussed plenty of times before. > > > > I plan to build a master file, a large collection of entries, that I will > keep in order, with many pdfs, sublists, etc. This master file will live in > a Dropbox folder. > > > > However, when I'm writing a paper, I only need some of these references, > and the corresponding .bib file lives next to the .tex sources. It's a > local file. I will most likely share this file with collaborators, and > clearly I don't want to expose my master file. > > > > How do you typically work in this setup? Do you keep the master and the > local file open, and drag references from one to the other? There's > something smarter to do? Am I missing something? > > > > Thanks > > Daniele > > _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > -- Daniele Avitabile Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam www.danieleavitabile.com
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