Sonny Software

Many of Taiwan's university libraries now support standard export formats like RIS (in unicode), so there is no longer a need for complicated MARC export.

Wow. I don't know what drew me to check out the forums just now, but I'm glad I did. Downloading right now! UPDATE: OK, so I do an Amazon search. Click on the icon. Get the Amazon web page. Then I see a link to a related book. Click on that. It opens up in the browser. .... Now what? What we need is...

Spent half an hour playing with papers. I love the GUI, but couldn't really get it to do much of use. In terms of functionality it doesn't match up with Zotero... For instance, it couldn't pull much useful metadata from the searches, and the number of pre-installed databases it searches is still qui...

I just spent an hour downloading Sente, importing my Bookends references, and playing with this feature, and here are my thoughts: Background: If the citation was downloaded from ScienceDirect or Wiley-Blackwell, etc. it will include a DOI link to that page. That DOI link is there in Bookends, and I...

Somewhat different from what I suggested above, but I see that Sente 5.4 adds a new "linking" feature which makes it very easy to add PDFs and web pages, from DOI or other links already in the citation. I know Bookends has something similar for PubMed, but this seems more flexible. (I don'...

Since Safari 3.1 came out I've switched over from Firefox, and so I recently decided to look into this some more. I discovered that there are some Greasemonkey javascript plugins which allow a browser to lookup OpenURL info from COINS information. You can find these here: http://old.onebiglibrary.ne...

Jon, Here is an idea for how Bookends could handle things better. I don't expect this feature to be added, but I just wanted to describe what I think an ideal case scenario might look like in case any part of this idea is useful to other users: Many applications have what they call a "drop box&...

I was afraid of that. One might have to re-record the actions in Bookends. Since I didn't see any native automator scripting for Bookends I made those actions using the "record" function. I guess those aren't transportable across computers...

I'm using Leopard.

I had a huge archive of PDF files which I either downloaded or scanned before Bookends introduced the ability to store and view PDF files within its own archive folder. Having a little time on my hands today, I decided to see if I could move these 400+ files over to bookends. Turned out to not be th...

I support the idea of an improved GUI for the find window, along the lines of Mail.app!

The new version has sparkle. Thanks!

I started adding some information about Bookends to this wikipedia page, but it needs more work. Help is appreciated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... t_software

Thanks Jon. I didn't know about that, but there is a reason to use dates instead of number of references: when working on a project it is uncertain how many references I will add. Some days it might be close to 50, and other days it might just be a couple. However, all the references I add on a give...

I love that Bookends can now sort by the date items were added to the library. This is a major improvement for my workflow. One thing that would make it even better is if I could have iPhoto style smart-groups for the last import or the last 6 imports, or all items imported in the last X number of d...

I second the vote for using Sparkle. I love how it works on all the applications that use it, and there are a lot of them! http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/wiki/AppsUsingSparkle However, I'm not sure if the way Bookends is developed will allow it to use Sparkle or not? If it isn't too much trouble, ...