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My habit has been to right-click on an item in Bookends, choose Copy Citation (I know, some see this as inefficient). I have Keyboard Maestro and have written scripts to do many things, but this is one thing that just seems to work for me as is. I do most of my preliminary (literature review, some s...

Thanks Jon, I appreciate that there is a path however inconvenient and annoying it may be. It's probably more convenient for me to disconnect my word processor from Bookends, and only connect it when it comes time to build the bibliography. I copy citations from Bookends so frequently that having to...

Hi, How do I prevent the auto insertion of the citation into my word processor when choosing "Copy Citation" from Bookends. I work with multiple things at a time and my insertion point isn't always where I want a citation (more often not where I want it, than when I do). In fact, I always ...

No worries at all Jon. I keep my documents (which I define as my "library") on GoogleDrive because it is the most inexpensive and reliable cloud storage I know of without resorting to DIY methods and I'd rather not deal with the technical details anyway. It is perhaps this terminology that...

You are not the only one geemieemme. I will adapt or abandon though. Because I'm dumb when it comes to what we are referring to as the "Library" I may be completely misunderstanding things here

I have both on and offsite backups for my own work (including about six terabytes of photographs as I'm a paid amateur photographer). The original, unannotated PDFs? I don't have much invested in them, the data (their DOI, author, name, etc) and the effort I put into annotating them is far more impo...

FWIW, I was talking about hardware storage as cheap, not cloud storage. Oh my, I cannot believe how blind I can be at times. Well, it's common enough occurrence that I should no longer be surprised. I somehow combined the "bookends sync" service with where my PDFs were stored on iCloud an...

Zyblorg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:44 pm I hadn't clued in to the fact that there was a drop-down menu there.

That makes two of us, it took me about three solid minutes to convince myself to try clicking that dropdown. It didn't occur to me that it was one either.

I'll think about this and how it might be approached. I can see that with the latest release of bookends that I can right-click with the window in the background for a menu. Thank you. I only just tried this now and was blown away when it worked (so used was I to just bring the app to the front). O...

As a Bookends , DEVONthink, and Scrivener user myself I dare to suggest that you add a clipboard manager to your workflow. Mine is Paste , it has pinboards designed to a specific purpose. And one of my pinboards is for Bookends references only. It's great to have the last copied references right th...

I think the word processor integrations are spot on. Between Nisus, Mellel and Word (I prefer Scrivener to these but nevermind) I think things are good. I'm not using these citations right away though, I'm using them with my own system to track the quotes and paraphrases as I synthesise information ...

That floating citations thing wasn't something I was aware of. My first trials of it felt very clunky, far clunkier than just bringing Bookends forward with a click, right clicking, and copying the citation. Then again, every 'new' thing has the high potential to feel clunky until we get used to it....

Thanks all for your thoughts. I'm sorry I'm not super active on the forums to reply so quickly to responses here and my head isn't always in "the process" but rather the things I'm working on. Even understanding some of these posts has required multiple readings on my part :oops:. At any r...

Hello, The wording of the FAQ on the topic of using bookends on more than one computer at a time reads as follows: Note that you can not run Bookends on more than one computer simultaneously (a single user has no need for this). When I was looking for a reference manager and Bookends was recommended...

I'd like to remove all attachments from a batch of items in Bookends. I use Bookends for its renaming and citation functionalities, my documents are stored in DevonThink. My workflow looks like this: 1. Drag an article to Bookends and it will fill the data out and rename the PDF. 2. Export the PDF (...