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I personally don't have any requirement or preference (I prefer to use a single library and authoryear works well for me). But I thought I would at least add some comments about other attempts for cite key generation for context. Papers (I think before they were assimilated by the Borg, um I mean ac...

What you want is not possible within Bookends AFAIK, and Jon would hopefully be able to say if this would be possible. However, shouldn't it be the job of the system that creates the bibliography to respect your title case? For my use (biology) where terms must be enforced wether the rest of the tit...

Just delete the file; Bookends appears smart enough that if the file disappears then the menu changes and you can create the sync file again...

Works for me too (Monterey 12.3), just tried to open TWO libraries and the Format Manager and ⌘` cycled between them without issue. Note I have BetterTouchTool and Alfred running managing a bunch of key bindings and with things like the HyperKey configured just in case the context of which tools may...

Gosh, all my thoughts are with Serge (and the millions of others caught up in this illegal and immoral war), in all my interactions he has always been super helpful and thoughtful.

Personally I would turn off hints and borders if this was configurable (I consider both of these GUI "noise", it doesn't help me but only increases UI complexity), and be perfectly happy if this wasn't configurable. I think you could have hints optional, and not implement the border...

You can open an issue and ask that author, that's your best bet.

Learning the tools to roll something yourself does take time and patience, certainly more than the time to manually edit your JSON in the short term but such skills are useful and satisfying in the long term...

Yeah, according to BetterBibTeX docs: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/installation/bundled-translators/ CSL-JSON and BBT-JSON are not equivalent. I have no idea what the differences are, you'd have to try to export each and see what it looks like. I assume you mean this tool: https://github...

There are indeed some swathes of grey area here (what exactly does fair-use encompass in terms of education and research?). But personally, I refuse to be a private copyright police for corporate entities like Elsevier. I've shared PDFs and photocopies before that, of papers with colleagues and stud...

Personally I think Pandoc/Markdown is becoming more common for academic content[1], and macOS Bookends could consider refactoring the temp citation settings to offer Pandoc citations as a "built-in" option. IIRC Papers and/or Sente offered this in the past. Nevertheless, it is important to...

The other bit of the puzzle you are missing is creating a Pandoc/Markdown Biblio format using $@$u1 : Screenshot 2022-02-03 at 22.55.16.png Then use that Pandoc.fmt in the Prefs Scan & Bib settings: Screenshot 2022-02-03 at 22.55.56_SMALL.png Then you will get a [@citekey] reference. Here is a s...

Correct, this is manual. You could "automate" this with launchd or some other tool so that it runs every X hours, but if you wanted it to be fast (only work on new refs) the script would have to become more complex. Jon will have to reply on the idea of optionally adding self-links to a us...

This applescript will take selected refs and add the bookends:// link to a new note: — I used a selection deliberately so you can choose which refs to operate on, if you want a nuclear option just remove the word "selected": tell application "Bookends" tell front library window s...

At least good news here. Applescript can read and write information from the database, so it is possible to create a script that would iterate through each reference and write a URL with the unique ID to a user field or appended to the notes field. Read the "Scripting Bookends" chapter in ...

I can only add useful information for the worst case scenario. I use Pandoc and have set up macOS launchd to run a script every time the BibTeX file is modified by Bookends (more details here: https://www.sonnysoftware.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=25644#p25644 ). In my case I run a custom script that ...