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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2196
Re: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
If I understand your summary of how cloud sync works, it's incorrect. When you use a file sync server (iCloud, DropBox, whatever) there are multiple copies of your PDFs that exist in multiple places. In your example, there is a copy in your iCloud Drive folder that is local (usually) -- and you can ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Clarification on syncing behavior
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1705
Re: Clarification on syncing behavior
The sync frequency referred to in the User Guide references to metadata (e.g. authors, title, etc.). Bookends doesn't sync PDFs, that's handled by whatever file sync service you use (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, etc.), and Bookends has no influence over when that occurs.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Final sigma.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1706
Re: Final sigma.
Terminate the title with a comma and it will be output as entered. That will take care of the capitalization. As far as the terminal sigma, you'll have to try this and see if your ς is left alone. As an aside, I don't know if you also have Mellel, but if you do its integration with Bookends is excel...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2196
Re: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
I know you can switch between them, but I'm not sure if there can be unintended consequences in edge cases. Serge may have a more definitive answer for you.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2196
Re: Some questions on using Bookends for syncing in a potentially unique case
I will answer your final questions. Know that you always work with local copies of your attachments, if it's on an Apple server only Bookends can't do anything with it. The copy on the server is just the intermediary that lets all of your devices have access to the same PDF. No PDF is "archival...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2426
Re: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
I had a sudden thought that maybe this was related to the "Import To Hits List" checkbox in the Import Reference dialog window. I ticked it and, in fact, I now see the imported reference is a hit. It doesn't happen if the reference is already in the library because the metadata aren't impo...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2426
Re: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
Sorry, that's what I've always been doing. And I just tested again -- the reference is not marked (not a hit). Whatever is causing this to happen for you isn't doing any harm, I suggest we let it go.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2426
Re: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
That didn't happen when I first tested, and it didn't when I tested just now. Clear the Hits list first (Hits menu) and try again. If it still happens for you I'll have to think about how that could be.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2426
Re: Observations on Importing from a Watch Folder
I'm not sure why you see that behavior, on several levels. References created when PDFs are imported from the watch folder are not made hits. The renaming does happen (a random number is added to disambiguate it), but not the way it should (it's the original name with a number added). I'll look into...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Superb improvement of Journal Glossary
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2368
Re: Superb improvement of Journal Glossary
How so? The glossary is simply a tab-delimited text file. To import a entry you''d need to create one yourself with 3 columns, save it, and import it. I don't know why anyone would want to do that rather than enter the information in the glossary directly. Note that you can open the glossary in any ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Superb improvement of Journal Glossary
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2368
Re: Superb improvement of Journal Glossary
Thank you, I'm glad you like the new UI. For me, the biggest improvement is the massive increase in journals the Medline glossary, which now contains over 19000 journals, compared to a bit over 800 in the old Concise Medline glossary. This was made possible by rewriting the search logic in the forma...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Allow right click (to copy citations) when Bookends in background
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Allow right click (to copy citations) when Bookends in background
If you have already selected the reference you want to cite in Bookends, then it's a duplication of work. But if you haven't, which is often/usually the case, it's less work to use Floating Citations. In your use case, what would make it less "clunky"? Perhaps a keyboard shortcut that woul...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: Remove attachments from batch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2128
Re: Remove attachments from batch
Understood. I'll just point out one more thing that you might not be aware of (or if you are, others reading this might not be). You can have PDFs in many different folders, not just the default folder, and Bookends will find them. These are called "ad hoc" attachment folders, and you can ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Price increase
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4865
Price increase
When Bookends 11 was released in 2013, the price was reduced from $99 to $59.99. Since that time, inflation has eroded the dollar's value by more than 32%. Unfortunately, it has reached the point where prices must be adjusted, and with the release of Bookends 15 the cost of new and upgrade licenses ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Bookends
- Topic: More than one computer (a user has no need for this)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2269
Re: More than one computer (a user has no need for this)
Thank you, kind of you to say that. WRT iCloud data sync (not iCloud file sync, which unlike the data sync is exposed to users), if you have general qualms based on what you've read or observed, I can't comment. But if you have particular issues with Bookends cloud sync, please contact us. There are...