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I just tested on desktop, lets say I have this situation (sorted by added date, this seems most relevant), two duplicates added later by bookends iOS:

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Generate citekey yields:

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It seems sorted by author alphabetically ...

Perhaps I'm mistaken but i noticed this could sometimes rename my oldest citekey, so for example say I have:

doe2024 doe2024a doe2024

Selection and regenerating got me

doe2024a doe2024b doe2024c

i.e. the first two changed. I did check this ages ago, then just developed a superstition not to ...

Note: for anyone who has duplicate keys, I found the easiest solution was to export as a BibTeX and use JabRef which has a duplicate keys tool: Quality > Check Integrity to get the list of duplicates and then change them manually

Great, thanks for the awesome support as always!

I have quite a few recent papers where my citekeys are duplicates, like I have two [huang2024] citekeys. Desktop bookends seems to append a letter so I think the culprit for this is iOS bookends. Can you check if the citekey that is created on iOS is supposed to handle duplicates (i.e. if huang2024 ...

My subscription will renew soon and I got a request or that my standard subscription will be a Premium one. Is this just a renaming or are you introducing a new tier ( for which I will happily upgrade to, iOS versions is a great tool!!!)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 exported as ...

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 ...

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 ...