Tag Archives: Hazel

Searchable PDF annotations: Automating conversion to Skim notes

Posted on 2012/12/20 by

Many academics now read journal articles on screen, as PDF files. Holdouts—and they are everywhere—print out forest-sized stacks of paper that teeter on crowded desks. Freedom from clutter is just one advantage of digital reading. Another is searchability: a large … Continue reading →

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Openmeta tags, DefaultFolderX and Papers

Posted on 2012/04/08 by

A simple search is usually sufficient to locate a reference in Papers2. It is triggerred from any application by pressing Ctrl-Ctrl and typing search terms (e.g. author’s name or title). This is excellent for citing, emailing or quickly consulting individual … Continue reading →

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Papers 2 is here!

Posted on 2012/03/14 by

My earlier post on Papers and Sente said that the biggest disadvantage of Papers is that it does not allow working with bibliographies. This has changed in Papers 2 immediately bridging the gap between pdf file management and scholarly referencing. As a … Continue reading →

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Using Sente and Papers to handle references and bibliographies

Posted on 2011/09/18 by

Sente and Papers are popular Mac utilities to handle academic articles. Papers focus on organization, reading and annotation of articles, whereas Sente’s primary function is bibliography management (citing articles in your own publications and creating bibliography lists). This post covers … Continue reading →

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Revisiting reference files

Posted on 2011/08/05 by

Academics deal with thousands of reference files (text documents, data sheets, images), which are sent by email, downloaded from the Internet, or obtained in other ways. To use MacPowerUsers‘ terms, ‘gathering’ of these files in neat hierarchical folders is not an … Continue reading →

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Macademic Ninja kit

Posted on 2011/04/14 by

I cannot imagine using my Mac without these five great applications. I must admit that all of them were referred to by MacPowerUsers podcast. They are not very visible, but they are there all the time to make my work … Continue reading →

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Tagging

Posted on 2011/03/17 by

Tagging is attaching “tags” or keywords to your files (pdf documents, images, data tables, mail messages, text notes, etc.) which would allow finding them easily. Tagging is a more advanced method of organizing information than sorting it into hierarchical folders. … Continue reading →

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Workflow for reference files

Posted on 2011/02/06 by

Reference files other than academic articles are those files that I do not import in Papers. It may be simply because their file types are not compatible with Papers (Papers works best with pdf files whereas I often come across … Continue reading →

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Handling academic articles through Papers

Posted on 2011/02/06 by

To handle academic articles through Papers you may want to arrange the following settings for your Papers library:

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Storing and naming reference files

Posted on 2011/02/05 by

This post originally written in February 2011 was updated in August 2011. The reader should also read the post on Revisiting Reference Files. I name reference files in accordance with the bibliographic convention as follows: Author Date Title @a (e.g. “Smith … Continue reading →

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