Sonny Software

You have a rather sophisticated workflow. Nicely done! I expect one limitation may eventually be in the reliability of your iCloud sync. I do not see a way to bring a reference on the iPad into the Hits list on macOS. For this reason, I foresee a complicated process in the effort to create an automa...

@postdoctoral -- Reading your processing steps on the PDF annotations, you could script this way 1) Detect that a PDF has been annotated (already completed) 2) Fire off a script that ... 2a) runs the extract PDF annotations menu using selected references as default ... Set this up by selecting a PDF...

As from past postings, I was confounded in making distinctions between the terms (PDF) Note, PDF Note, and (Bookends) Note. Your diligence to use either PDF Note (explicit) or Note (implicit for Bookends Note) is appreciated. Pedantic that I am as such, I might point out for example that the menu fo...

A BibTeX file is inevitably an immutable resource that could just as well be written in a read-only mode. One-way sync makes sense for this case. Should you consider simply extending the Extract PDF Annotations option, I might offer these thoughts. * While the process to Extract and Save may seem si...

Jon: Glad to hear about the progress on this. 1) As much as I would love the (automatic) sync to work with annotations as well as notes, I understand the limitations. Given also that we now have the option to collect annotations including notes, and given that Bookends can be scripted to run the col...

Jon: I am glad my comments resonated and sparked further insights. As a background, I generally resolve to limit my use of apps that lock me in to their ecosystem for managing document content. Hence also my continued great applause for your solid efforts to allow us to export annotation notes to ma...

I read this with some interest. I might pose my thoughts as below. > and something I don't think is available elsewhere on the Mac (I could be wrong, it's big software universe). I might point to [Flexcil](https://www.flexcil.com) for iOS. Perhaps this app approaches what you have in mind as a UI fo...

I appreciate the clarification. Changing Create Comment to Add Text really does help distinguish the action. Clarity will also be improved if the term “comment” is reserved solely for text that we can add (and remove) on highlighted or underlined phrases. The prefix “PDF” would then not be needed fo...

The author for annotations and markups to PDFs defaults to the full user ID. Do we have a way to change this? For comparison, Preview and PDFExpert give a global Setting to define an author. Acrobat forces you to change the author on each annotation one-at-a-time (ugh!).

I am also often confused by the variations in terminology --> comment, note, PDF note, and note card. We also have an option to "quote" selected text as opposed to selecting note card. Respectfully for due consideration, as you think about possible improvements, I would have an easier time...

I appreciate the reminder about this question. 1) I do not use BE to insert citations directly. My documents are in LaTeX. I export the citations from BE into a bib file. 2) I use BE on iPad to read and annotate. I find BE iPadOS to be well-suited for these tasks compared to other citation managemen...

I prefer a way that will allow me to display only the count (of references) on groups and not the count (of sub-folders and groups) on folders. So, yes, I prefer also the fourth option.

I find little to no use for folder badges. I would be pleased to have the additional option in the context menu to Show/Hide Group Badges. The four resulting views would be 1) all badges hidden, 2) only folder badges shown, 3) only group badges shown, and 4) folder and group badges shown. The first ...

I imagine the OP is not asking to change the four default cite key options (Author + Year, Author + Year + UniqueID, ...). Rather, the request is to provide customizable options beyond the existing four defaults. With the flexibility that I have learned in using formats across other cases, I can sup...

Yes, the macOS version of Bookends flattens the entire Attachments folder. It is entirely unaware of sub-folder locations to distinguish files. Hence, you cannot have a working Bookends library contain both of these files at the same time ...Attachments/subfolder1/Test.pdf and ...Attachments/subfold...