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Please send a PDF that's not syncing to bookendsontap@sonnysoftware.com.

Here is some description of an icon with a slash from discussions.apple.com

A cloud with a single slash appears to mean that the item is ineligible and cannot be added to iCloud Drive because it does not meet one of the criteria for iCloud Drive files.

We’re exploring the possibility of offering on demand downloading to your iOS device. If that can be implemented only PDFs you want to read will be downloaded.

The PDF features of Bookends for iOS are powered by PSPDFKit. The same engine is used in a free app called "PDF Viewer" from the PSPDFKit team.

If you want some feature to appear in future releases of Bookends, please download PDF Viewer .

If PDF Viewer does not have a feature you would like ...

The PDF features in Bookends for iOS is powered by a third-party engine called PSPDFKit. The latest release greatly improved Apple Pencil support. You can read more about that update on their blog page.

Global information (which is stored in preferences) is not synced at this moment.

If there is no Bookends folder in iCloud Drive on Mac, but it's there in iCloud Drive on iOS please download this helper app .
It will create a temporary file (can be deleted after) in that folder forcing macOS to show it.

Bookends and Bookends for iOS use different search engines and have very ...

First of all I should say that initially WiFi sync was removed in BOT for iOS because of network issues we can’t fix. We are using Bonjour technology to find both apps on the same network and then apps try to connect to each other. Because of different conditions like router settings and firewall ...

Thanks for the report. The "Book Title" was incorrectly sent as a Volume field to the CSL engine and it should be fixed for the next update (later in April).
Here is the result in the updated version:

Bookends sends "chapter" type to csl engine for Book Chapter. Please attach your reference here in RIS format and I will look into it.

Yes, the library on your Mac should be synced to the cloud first.
Click on the cloud icon in Bookends to upload your library to the cloud.

The problem causing some data to be lost on sync has been resolved and should be fixed with the next release of Bookends for iOS. It occurs only in cases of syncing fields that have styled text or some special characters entered in Bookends for Mac and then edited in Bookends for iOS.

John, thank ...

Please try this url:
https://login.mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=%@

Unfortunately, there is no way to get them back... Please try to add a new note to this reference and sync to check if this problem is reproducible.

Please read this section from docs:
"To create the Bookends iOS sync folder on your Mac, you must perform a few extra steps."