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April 12, 2010 10:25 AM Subscribe
Software to organize lots of pdf's?
E.g., 10,000 pdf's (including scanned files), each with unique and non-unique code numbers, keywords, and dates assigned to them.
Any suggestions for software that will track/organize them all, and allow searching and sorting at multiple levels using the assigned code numbers and keywords? And viewing would be good too.
(I've seen suggestions for zotero, evernote, bibdesk, yojimbo, soho notes, even itunes. Haven't used any of them.)
E.g., 10,000 pdf's (including scanned files), each with unique and non-unique code numbers, keywords, and dates assigned to them.
Any suggestions for software that will track/organize them all, and allow searching and sorting at multiple levels using the assigned code numbers and keywords? And viewing would be good too.
(I've seen suggestions for zotero, evernote, bibdesk, yojimbo, soho notes, even itunes. Haven't used any of them.)
I use Mendeley (which is free), but it's tailored toward research articles. It does allow for searching through tags and there is a Word plug-in to insert citations.
posted by joan cusack the second at 10:59 AM on April 12, 2010
posted by joan cusack the second at 10:59 AM on April 12, 2010
Calibre is great software and may be worth considering.
posted by Adrem at 10:59 AM on April 12, 2010
posted by Adrem at 10:59 AM on April 12, 2010
Usually when people mention all those, they also give DevonThink a try. I love it (and it does more than PDFs).
posted by Brian Puccio at 11:11 AM on April 12, 2010
posted by Brian Puccio at 11:11 AM on April 12, 2010
For a Mac person, nothing better than Yep.
Calibre is good too, exception being updates every other day, if not, quite often, which is good but I hate to download 25mb all the time. I have unlimited bandwidth, still.. It can be annoying.
posted by zaxour at 11:55 AM on April 12, 2010
Calibre is good too, exception being updates every other day, if not, quite often, which is good but I hate to download 25mb all the time. I have unlimited bandwidth, still.. It can be annoying.
posted by zaxour at 11:55 AM on April 12, 2010
Sente really can't be beat in my opinion, and the blog suggests it might be likely to come to iPad soon. Your whole reference library from anywhere? Awesome.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 1:02 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by solipsophistocracy at 1:02 PM on April 12, 2010
actually, since sente and papers are being recommended, is this for academic papers or a research project?
i ask because yep is great for All Things That Are Documents.
Papers is great for having a beautiful UI, a nice iPad/iPhone sync feature, great repository integration, and good smart folder/tagging. What it's not good for is handling PDFs of books -- i wish i could bookmark, sort by publisher, etc. Overall I still use papers the most.
For what it's worth i found devonthink completely awful and got a refund. The software may be great, it has some very cool auto-summarization language processing, but the UI is like teleporting back to 1998. If he ever gives it a proper refresh i'd like to try it out again.
posted by Señor Pantalones at 1:29 PM on April 12, 2010
i ask because yep is great for All Things That Are Documents.
Papers is great for having a beautiful UI, a nice iPad/iPhone sync feature, great repository integration, and good smart folder/tagging. What it's not good for is handling PDFs of books -- i wish i could bookmark, sort by publisher, etc. Overall I still use papers the most.
For what it's worth i found devonthink completely awful and got a refund. The software may be great, it has some very cool auto-summarization language processing, but the UI is like teleporting back to 1998. If he ever gives it a proper refresh i'd like to try it out again.
posted by Señor Pantalones at 1:29 PM on April 12, 2010
I second Mr. Pantalones.
I too use Papers for academic pdfs (several 1000) and Yep for everything else (office docs, pdfs etc).
They both serve different needs.
posted by special-k at 2:14 PM on April 12, 2010
I too use Papers for academic pdfs (several 1000) and Yep for everything else (office docs, pdfs etc).
They both serve different needs.
posted by special-k at 2:14 PM on April 12, 2010
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I use papers and evernote. There's also NeatWorks, but it's a beast.
posted by Señor Pantalones at 10:30 AM on April 12, 2010