Sonny Software

The annotations that appear as note cards are rendered from the text in the PDF on-the-fly. They are note stored in the database. They can be imported into the database with a right-click, of course, which will do two things: (1) add the text to the Notes field, and (2) update the modification date ...

Escape in what way? What markup language are you using? If it's one we support natively, choose it in Biblio -> Default Format & Output Style (e.g. HTML, BibTeX, Markdown).

Jon
Sonny Software

Tip: If you want the flexibility to have the information in either field, you can edit the format to use a conditional group, like this:

[a. ’t,’ {v^u2}$ diss., $ u, d.]

That tells Bookends to output the Degree field (v) if it has content, and if it does not output the content of the Thesis Type ...

You can't. These searches deal with information stored in the database. Attached PDFs are external documents. You could write an AppleScript to do this, however. One that gathered the pathnames of all attachments and then queried the Finder for their modification dates. It shouldn't be hard to do ...

The dissertation type should be entered in the field Thesis Type (AKA user 2). That field is empty in your screen snap.

Jon
Sonny Software

Actually, Bookends doesn't share PDFs at all. The PDFs are shared by a file sync service like iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. Bookends merely stores (and shares) the names of the PDFs, which of course are not copyrighted.

Jon
Sonny Software

You can share live databases with other Bookends users via cloud sync. Of course that requires that they use a Mac or iOS device. That's covered in detail in the User Guide, but this video tutorial should be sufficient to get it working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sS3SNt-btU

Independently ...

Please contact tech support and send (1) the format .fmt you are using and (2) screen snaps of what you are seeing that isn't what you want.

Jon
Sonny Software

You can open the PDF in Preview (or probably Skim or other PDF readers) and delete the cover page.

If you have imported the annotation and page number to Notes, you can also edit the notecard by double clicking on it to set the page number.

Jon
Sonny Software

Check in the PDF settings (click on gear action menu in the PDF viewer) and make sure that option to show highlights in the note stream is checked. As for Skim, it uses it's own proprietary method for handling highlights and notes, which can't be read by other PDF readers (try Preview, for example ...

This shouldn't be a forum question, it's impossible to guess what is wrong with such a complex and inconsistent set of variables. Please send those 3 references and the format you created to support@sonnysoftware.com so we can take a look.

https://www.sonnysoftware.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2038 ...

That would be Autofill From Internet if you have the DOI, PMID, or a few other unique IDs. If you don't have these, you can try Refs -> DOI -> Ge DOI, and if there is sufficient metadata for Crossref to identify the reference it will be imported and you can then Autofill From Internet.

Jon
Sonny ...

I'm not sure which app you used to create the temp citations and which app you are using to scan the citations. But I can tell you that if you export from EndNote to Bookends, Bookends will not change the unique id (as long as it is unique, of course). Which means that if the EndNote id for a ...

Yes, only one or the other. If you move the text file to the Trash (but DON"T empty the trash), Bookends will let you create a new file, which can be either BibTeX or CSL-JSON. Then you can compare the two and see which one works better for you.

Jon
Sonny Software

That's a limitation of EndNote. They assign ids sequentially (which is why merging EndNote libraries is problematic). Bookends unique ids are assigned randomly. They won't match.

Here's a FAQ that discusses using Bookends and EndNote together, with some suggestions you may find helpful.

https ...