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by DrJJWMac
Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: More than one computer (a user has no need for this)
Replies: 8
Views: 502

Re: More than one computer (a user has no need for this)

I suggest that @happycatmachine is simply suggesting that the phrasing ... (a single user has no need for this) ... might simply be eliminated. In follow up to your description ... Note that you cannot run Bookends with the same license key simultaneously on more than one computer. If you attempt to...
by DrJJWMac
Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Remove attachments from batch
Replies: 6
Views: 476

Re: Remove attachments from batch

@happycatmachine ... With your comments, I might suggest that you change your processing steps. First question though ... Are you indexing or importing to DevonThink? I presume you are importing. If so, I recommend that you live with two copies of the PDF, one (raw source) in Bookends and one (annot...
by DrJJWMac
Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Allow right click (to copy citations) when Bookends in background
Replies: 9
Views: 584

Re: Allow right click (to copy citations) when Bookends in background

All right. I am ... impressed ... coming across this for the first time. Can the floating citation window also allow for restrictions to specific fields (as per the search in BE)? Why? I am using tags such as #why or #result in note fields. I would like to use the floating citation window to search ...
by DrJJWMac
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys
Replies: 18
Views: 6237

Re: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys

Apologies. The clarification is appreciated. Clearly, I misunderstood the reason behind the request for a checkbox to limit cite keys to ASCII, especially since I only use ASCII in cite keys if only for the (perhaps unfounded) fear that unicode is not the most well-implemented standard in other apps...
by DrJJWMac
Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys
Replies: 18
Views: 6237

Re: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys

Do not mistake setting a base standard as default and providing an opt in method to move beyond with falling back and chaining to a punishing limitation.
by DrJJWMac
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:52 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys
Replies: 18
Views: 6237

Re: Bookends 14.1.7: Citekeys

I appreciate the flexibility in Bookends. Flexibility that breaks conventions to work efficiently with external apps should be provided using an OPT-IN approach. So, anything that goes beyond what BibTeX limits in cite key formats should be set in Bookends *by specific request from the user*. By exa...
by DrJJWMac
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:18 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Off Topic: Limitations on Using the Orcid ID Feature
Replies: 1
Views: 279

Off Topic: Limitations on Using the Orcid ID Feature

I was excited to try the Orchid ID feature in Bookends. I discovered however that my Orcid ID is not registered within OpenAlex. When I enter my Orcid ID in the Bookends settings, I get the message that ... "This ORCID ID does not exist, isn't in the OpenAlex database, or has no public content....
by DrJJWMac
Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Selector in Preferences for Default epub Viewer?
Replies: 17
Views: 9308

Re: Selector in Preferences for Default epub Viewer?

It may work - my advice is just be very wary with a new conversion path at first - I've been a couple of hundred pages into a text that I have heavily annotated when it blows up In such a case, I imagine that other methods, such as through ghostscript or pandoc, might also carry the same warning. I...
by DrJJWMac
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Selector in Preferences for Default epub Viewer?
Replies: 17
Views: 9308

Re: Selector in Preferences for Default epub Viewer?

FWIW, PDFExpert (macOS) offers to convert an ePub directly to PDF at the point where you try to open the ePub with it. I imagine its iPadOS version might do the same (not tested).
by DrJJWMac
Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Feature Requests: A few thoughts on the (...) menu
Replies: 0
Views: 30037

Feature Requests: A few thoughts on the (...) menu

I'd appreciate having a way to see summary statistics about a library. * Number of Articles * Number of Attachments * Library Data Folder * Last Modified Date * Last Synced Date * ??? others ??? As I review the menu options in the (...) expansion, I wonder if this could be cleaner and include an Abo...
by DrJJWMac
Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:47 am
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Feature Request: DOI input at Autofill From Internet
Replies: 1
Views: 5814

Feature Request: DOI input at Autofill From Internet

I have collected articles where the DOI information does not fill. I am extracting the DOI from the PDF to add to the meta data for the article. As part of this, I have two requests that would streamline this type of manual processing. * The Edit Reference fields are split between a Main and Additio...
by DrJJWMac
Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:33 pm
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync
Replies: 3
Views: 5573

Re: Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync

For those who are interested, the issue has been resolved. My campus routers were blocking the protocols needed for the WiFi sync between BE iPadOS and BE macOS.

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JJW
by DrJJWMac
Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:18 pm
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync
Replies: 3
Views: 5573

Re: Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync

Sorry to hear this. Thank you for the update. I am still troubleshooting the issue. My best guess is that our campus routers are blocking (blacklisting or not whitelisting) the protocol required for WiFi sync.
by DrJJWMac
Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:13 pm
Forum: Looking for AppleScripts…
Topic: Sorting Citations (from Dimensions.ai) in User14
Replies: 4
Views: 9891

Re: Sorting Citations (from Dimensions.ai) in User14

Here is a more compact version. use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later use scripting additions on run set theReturns to {} -- included for debugging only tell application "Bookends" to tell the front library window set pubList to every publication item repeat ...
by DrJJWMac
Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: Bookends for iOS
Topic: Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync
Replies: 3
Views: 5573

Request: Hard-Wire Method to Sync

I am stuck with my university WiFi network not syncing between Bookends iPadOS and Bookends macOS. I will try to sort out internally what protocol is missing or caught by the university routers. In the meantime, I might ask whether the two apps could support a "hard wire" method to synchro...