Sonny Software

Well I see that most of the key points have already been discussed, but I just wanted to add that when I first tried Sente, over a year ago now, I was shocked at how poor its handling of various in-text citation formats was. When I contacted the author he was completely unaware of the needs of human...

Many programs (iTunes and iPhoto for example) keep track of when records are added and/or modified. This would be very useful in Bookends. When I am doing research I am likely to add many citations on a given topic all at once, or within a short time frame. If I could browse my database by date I co...

Last I looked, Delicious Library did not have BibTex export, but Booxter did, so I bought Booxter and have been very happy with it. Having BibTex allows me to easily export to Bookends if I need to. I use Booxter for library mangagement.

I was looking around del.icio.us and discovered you don't need to be logged in to see the features I was discussing. Go to this URL: http://del.icio.us/jenfur19th/Smoking Choose some of the options at the bottom of the list on the right (maybe you need to be logged in to see these?) including: show ...

I forgot one feature I find VERY useful at del.icio.us: tag bundles. This allows the user to group a bunch of tags/keywords together under a general heading. Then they appear together in the list when you browse through your tags. So, for instance, if I had a bunch of references related to molecular...

OK. I actually had some time to think about how this might be implemented in the current layout of Bookends. Right now the Keywords list window shows a list with numbers identifying the number of records in that keyword. I am suggesting an option to make this appear as a tag-cloud instead (set in th...

Note that clusters as implemented on Flicker are actually suggested "virtual groups" not just suggested keywords from which one creates one's own "virtual groups" as in del.icio.us. Just today someone announced a site which pulls Flickr data to use such information in searches. h...

Hm. I think this reduces to the following: you want to be able to click on a keyword (or tag) and see a list (or cloud, or whatever) of all other combinations in which that word appeared. So, if you have two references with these keyword: dog pet and pet cat you'd want to be able to choose dog and ...

I think you have to be logged in to del.icio.us and using your own bookmarks to see the additive tag searching feature, but you can see the related tags at work here: http://del.icio.us/tag/dogs When searching one's own tags these related tags from within your own set of tags will appear highlighted...

After you click on the tag dogs, click on the "dog clusters" link on the side. This is a little different from the example of how del.icio.us works which I think would be a better model for Bookends, but it does show you what I mean. UPDATE: Here is a direct link: http://flickr.com/photos/...

I don't think virual groups is capable of suggesting possible keyword combinations, is it? But more importantly, it is (as I said) about the ease of quickly narrowing down a search topic: I start with "transportation" and then see "cars trains buses" or, I start with buses, see &...

But isn't this exactly the same as using the Boolean operator OR for doing a search for records containing the keyword car or train? No, it is the equivalent of doing AND - except that you are given a list of suggestions as to possibly relevant keywords with which to perform the AND query, and rath...

Not at all - because you use that information to narrow your list. For instance, if you see that "cars" is related to "trains" you can then search for "cars + trains" which is more precise than the more general "cars" you would have in a rigid list! In fact, d...

Whether to use "rigid keyword lists" or to go wild with free-association word-salads is a matter of personal preference, of course, but I don't think the software should dictate the answer, it should allow people to pick and choose those tools which work best for them. I used to be a "...

Tag clouds are a different way of representing the SAME information, not a different kind of information. Perhaps GKE is thinking of "social tagging" which is often used by the same web sites that use tag clouds? I suggest reading some Edward Tufte for further clarification as to how the v...