Sonny Software

BTW, you can preview the formatted reference while you are in the Reference window. Press Command-E.

Jon
Sonny Software

That's not a bad idea, but may be hard to implement well. It makes sense if you create a new reference and then immediately close it. But the reference window can stay open while you perform other tasks, and you may not want the reference selected in the List View when you finally close that window....

hombre wrote:I wanted to be able to drop the selected references on white space. As I said, like it's possible in iTunes.

Seems like a reasonable idea. I'll look into it.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi hombre, I think it's one more in a seemlingly endless list of things I would need to learn/implement/support! :-) Actually, I think it's not a bad idea. This forum is supposed to provide some of that, but of course the information is not organized in any way. I'll look into it. Thanks for the sug...

I would love to be able to create a new (static) group by dragging a bunch of selected references to the list of groups. I imagine it to behave like a playlist in iTunes. You mean if you drop on "white space"? Or a nonstatic group, like All? Possible. But right now you can simply right-cl...

Hi, You should enter the name as von Liszt, Franz There is an option in the format (second tab) where you can tell Bookends to "Use Ignore List for Author". If checked, Bookends will ignore the words you have entered in Preferences (Scan & Bibliography tab) Author Ignore list. The word...

OK, I've switched the behavior in the next udpate (the Live Search field is NOT cleared when you select another group unless you hold down the Option key). Feedback is welcome when it's available (no date yet).

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Chris, As you see, the sort is based on the names entered in the database. There really is no other intelligent way of doing this. If this is a problem for you, you can use the Authors Term List to see all the names (as they are entered in the database). A global find/replace in the authors field...

Hi Tom. There is another issue. Bookends does live searches, meaning it searches as you type (it waits for a small pause, actually, but that's the general idea). So there are many "mini searches". This does not lend itself to a popup list of any kind containing previous searches. Jon Sonny...

OK folks, keep those opinions coming in...

A search history isn't a bad idea, but I don't think there is a good interface element for it. We already use the magnifying glass down arrow to select the field (or Spotlight) to search, so that's out...

Jon
Sonny Software

To go from Bookends *to* Refworks no doubt involves exporting the references from Bookends in a particular plain text tagged format (like Refer or RIS). Bookends has a format for Endnote Refer, and may for RIS (I can't check at the moment). If not, it's easy to make one. Then use Bibliography Format...

It's a small thing -- it gets the next number, because that makes the most sense if you duplicate while in the reference window (otherwise, it would go to the end of the db, which is probably not what you want). It makes less sense when you duplicate from the List View, of course, but since the same...

Right now, Bookends will do this if you hold the Option key down when you switch groups. I could make that the default if people want it (it's not the default now, because I thought people would be too easily confused if they clicked on another group and no references showed up (because there were n...

It's an Easter egg. Completely unnecessary information, of course.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Tacitus,

Yes, you got it. If you click on the cat in the logo, there is a small blurb about this.

Jon
Sonny Software