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My thought is to use the same window display as is used currently, with three exceptions: 1. References can be dragged to reorder them however you see fit 2. You can toggle an option to "display notes"; when on, a notes field would become visible and would be displayed below each reference...

Here's a proposal, tell me what you think: organize and display reading lists / syllabi from within Bookends itself. Obviously, this can be done using a word processor in combination with Bookends. But, for organizing PDFs, personally I think it's valuable enough that it deserves to be in the progra...

Thanks Nick. I just tried the same with google scholar and four articles from the cancer genomics literature. Four for four! Better than the etBLAST tool that I had posted about earlier. Now, has Google opened up their search API for Scholar? I just did a quick search that suggested that they have n...

It would be a very good feature to bring new users to Bookends, since almost every academic now has lots of pdfs on their hard drive. Exactly -- every one of my colleagues has many folders of dozens to hundreds of PDFs, and they would love a tool like this. To my knowledge this feature doesn't exis...

Jon, thanks for your reply and pointers. I'll read a little about openURL as I'm not sure what you were referring to (about using the PMID and Spotlight). With respect to the first question, Hi, I've been concentrating more on getting pdfs for new references in Bookends, not entering new references ...

Thanks for your quick responses. I've been thinking further about how to convert my PDF library to BookEnds format -- had one other idea to run by you. It would be nice if there were a streamlined way to put an existing PDF files into the BookEnds database. Right now, this requires me to look up cit...

Hi Jon, Thanks for your reply. You're right, pubmed does tend to choke on those. There is actually a very nice academic service called "ETBlast" that allows one to search pubmed on the basis of entire paragraphs of text, which could be perfect for what we're discussing. It's available via ...

The problem is that pdfs contain unstructured data. There is no unambiguous way to distinguish one bit of information from another that will work with any particular pdf. BTW, Bookends does give you tools to go the other way -- locate the reference in PubMed and then retrieve and attach the pdf. Jo...

I have just d/l'd the demo for Bookends and love it. The groups feature is essential for anyone who is not only maintaining a reference database for bibliography purposes, but wants to be able to use their library to maintain course syllabi, topical papers, lists of papers to read, etc. One feature ...