Application Highlight: iPapers

By joel at Wed, Oct 26 2005 7:05pm |

iPapers is a very slick little application for managing PDF articles and related PubMed citation data. You can import the articles into iPapers by drag and drop operation, or you can directly search for and import articles from the PubMed DB based on search attributes, e.g. name of authors, title, journal name, volume, number, pages and abstract. If your institute or university has PubMed PDF access permissions, you can download by clicking the link of downloading PDF file. iPapers automatically save the downloaded PDF as "PMID.pdf" into iPaper paper folder and imports the associated citation data into iPapers. iPapers can also manage PDF and citation data for papers that do not have PubMed ID's.

The iPapers interface is reminiscent of iTunes, allowing you to brows in a multi-pane drill-down fashion by author or journal name. You can search your personal library by keyword, and If you want to read the PDF of the article, you simply double click the citation record. iPapers also sports an integrated web browser that allows you to easily navigate to the original PubMed entry.

iPapers version 2 is currently under development and promises an array of new features such as smart folders, user comments, automated categorization, spotlight integration, and more. Both iPapers and iPapers 2 are freely available under an open-source license.

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Thu, 2005-10-27 05:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

Remember Spotlight will index PDFs

Anyone who maintains a "paper" collection, or rather a PDF collection, on their computer should move up to OS X 10.4 "Tiger". 10.4 comes with Spotlight which will index and rapidly search the contents of your PDFs. This is very useful and was the key reason for me moving to 10.4. Its a bit like having a built-in PubMed or google search for you own PDFs.

iPages does handle the journal and author names, etc., which I've be doing manually (folders by journal, files named by citation), so its interesting--thanks.

PS: Start with 10.4.2, earlier versions may have too many issues for some people's liking.

Tue, 2005-11-15 17:43 — Anonymous (not verified)

Another good program is BibDesk

Another good piece of software for organizing papers (including pubmed stuff) is BibDesk.

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

Which has a lot of similar functionality, and can be used to generate/manage bibtex files to boot!

Thu, 2005-12-15 06:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

iTunes works fine for me to

iTunes works fine for me to store pdf. I can use all it´s search potential and i´m already familiar with the interface. All i am missing is a plugin to pubmed, google scholar or cite sire.

Thu, 2005-12-15 08:15 — biotrix

How did you do that?

wow, that's a cool idea. How did you do that? you should write a little howto and have it posted to this site.

Thu, 2005-12-15 13:37 — miles

HowTo

Here's the HowTo:

Drag&Drop. That's it.

Thu, 2006-05-11 03:59 — Anonymous (not verified)

I use Bookends

I use Bookends from http://www.sonnysoftware.com/
Also a great piece of software for managing your papers ;)
Thanks.