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During my search, I came across this Wikipedia article, Comparison of Reference Management Software with a great table that collates the majority of software out there.My needs are the following: The biggest loss is the ability to add citations on the fly in Scrivener without interupting my writing flow.The news of this impending feature loss (along with the announcement of an annual fee) had me scrambling to invesitgate my options for citation managers. Bibliography formatting is not an issue for me. The new Papers app will only work with Microsoft Word. Only the search criteria-this returns ALL information in the database (including abstracts, PDFs, and extracted text as described in this entry).Įarly indications, including personal communication with ReadCube personnel, are that Magic Citations (now called SmartCite) will no longer integrate with Scrivener. Using Smart Searches, The abstracts are automatically sorted into folders.For most topics I have two Smart Searches:Īs shown below that includes the search criteria AND searching for the tag “Abstracts Inbox” we talked about earlier-this finds only abstracts relevant to the search,

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Now that the information is in DTP I am able to take full advantage of its search functionality and artificial intelligence.I make extensive use of Smart Searches in DTP. Finally, there is a field for me to add my own comments to the new DTP file.Once the abstracts are imported into DTP, I make sure to index the folder so the new information is included in search. The template also includes a link back to the publication in Bookends. DTP grabs all the highlighted abstracts from Bookends.The imported information includes Author, Title, Year, Abstract, and Keywords. I highlight all the new manuscripts in Bookends.I then move over to DTP and select the Data:New From Template: Education: Reference (from Bookends) menu item. I like reverse chronological order so I can see the last date I imported abstracts.

As you can see below, a sub-folders of zz-Inputs is an “Abstracts Inbox.” When I set up this folder in DTP, I made sure the folder WAS NOT excluded from tagging (this is done by option-clicking on the folder and making sure “exclude from tagging is UNCHECKED).When it’s time to transfer abstracts from Bookends, I first click to select the Abstracts Inbox folder in DTP.I then open up Bookends and sort the fields by the “Added” Column. In DTP, I’ve organized these folders into a “zz-Inputs Folder”. Once imported into DTP, these abstracts can be parsed using smart folders (enduring searches) that make your literature library a dynamic resource for writing.I have a single DTP database that has indexed the various folders critical in my writing process (e.g. I’ve made heavy use of a particular built-in Devonthink Template that automates the migration of abstracts from Bookends to DTP (with a link back to Bookends). Although Tinderbox is great for visually organizing your notes, it can’t compare to the search capabilities of DevonThink Pro.Since switching to Bookends, I’ve found myself spending less time in Tinderbox and even more time in Devonthink. My old workflow required Keyboard Maestro to extract abstract information to Tinderbox. I wrote about Sense-making of the Academic Literature back when I was using Papers. There, I open the file with Adobe Acrobat (any app able to add headers and split documents will work).

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I then move the extracted markdown files to the HighlightsX sub-folder.Within Bookends, I export the annotated pdf to my desktop. Within the moved folder I make two new sub-folders: 1. I move the folder from the DTP Inbox to my Desktop. By default, Highlights.app saves my extracted highlights files to the DTP Inbox.

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Here is what I’ve been doing.Īfter highlighting a manuscript in Highlights.app, I extract my highlights (along with color tags) to Devonthink Pro using the built in export function. Instead, I’ve been experimenting with an alternative that is much quicker (as suggested by Andrew in the comments of the entry)-saving the entire manuscript as single-page PDF documents. Although I’ve continued my extraction of highlights, the extraction of full text (by highlighting the entire document) proved much too time consuming. In Reading, Extracting And Storing Scholarly Information To Supercharge The Writing Process, I wrote about how I extracted both highlights and full-text of entire manuscripts in order to give me granular access to information.