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On desktop, the Citation Inspector can perform a reverse citation (cited by) search on a reference. This feature is incredibly useful when searching for related literature. On iOS this is currently not possible. It would be really great if there was something similar on iOS, with UI like the existin...

For anyone thinking about switching to JSON over BIB here is a performance comparison: ✦ ε ➪ benchmark { pandoc -t plain --csl apa.csl --citeproc --bibliography Core.json test.md > /dev /null } 337.467316ms ± 15.798866ms (min 322.477834ms, max 366.256375ms, 5 runs) ✦ ε ➪ benchmark { pandoc -t plain ...

This is my interim zsh script to fix dates that runs via launchctl: https://codeberg.org/iandol/dotfiles/src/branch/main/bin/tweakJSON.sh It first uses jq to remove abstracts, addresses etc which cuts the file size down (my JSON is 18MB before and 7MB after, pandoc can load and parse it more quickly...

Thank you Jon for the implementation!!! For Pandoc users, you may find you have some issue with dates. Many of my refs have dates like "2021 Feb 12" and when synced to BibTeX only the year exports (so Pandoc renders just the year in in-text citations/bibliography as expected). But, when ex...

Sent, thanks for the consideration!

My personal use would be for Create/Sync Linked BibTeX File, but I can imagine other people may want to use CSL-JSON manually. This was why I asked more generally whether anyone had tried to see if format manager could do this already; I didn't have time to try to build JSON from FM myself yet, and ...

For markdown workflows the recommendation is to use CSL-JSON instead of BibTeX, e.g.: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/pandoc/index.html#use-csl-not-bibtex-with-pandoc I currently run a Launchd script to convert the BibTeX that Bookends generates using "Sync Linked BibTeX File...

What do other users, particularly those with experience using different AI providers or services, think? Does the choice of provider make a meaningful difference? Not a meaningful difference to be honest. I've used Claude and the recent latest Gemini and also regularly run local models (Llama 3.2 a...

JabRef had a GSOC student work on adding some AI integrations into their UI, you can read about this here: https://blog.jabref.org/2024/08/21/AI-chatting/ This is fairly basic-level integration, at least the summary tool could be automated for Bookends using Applescript. But still there is so much c...

I copied your RIS entries to a file and they also import for me just fine (the URLs are broken but that is probably an issue with the forum using ... to shorten the URL...

Can you copy a sample RIS file that doesn't work for you here so we can test?

Concerning Bookends, the one thing I was thinking could be a powerful addition is the implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). I've used AnythingLLM: https://docs.useanything.com/introduction -- which is a local RAG alongside LMStudio (a local LLM runner). I created topic collections...

Just to add for those who may be open to an alternative: use a markdown writing system with Pandoc filters that automatically handle multiple bibliographies: https://bcdavasconcelos.github.io/citetools/docs_qmd/02-multibib.html There are lots of other nice features of this sort of workflow, but it d...

Hm, LateX is not the easiest thing to move to on a deadline (I tend to recommend a Markdown workflow with Pandoc which is simpler and far more flexible). Nevertheless, Bookends is an excellent choice for LaTex companion. Here is what I would do: 1) If you haven't done it yet go to Settings ▸ BibTeX ...

Duh, I should have solved that myself, thanks for the {curly} pointer!