Sonny Software

I have Word 16.83 and don't have a problem with Bookends.

The error message you post says that the EndNote CWYW plugin isn't compatible. You're on the wrong forum.

Jon
Sonny Software

I want to trust that I know where the "truest" copy of a given attachment resides, and that the one "truest" copy is in a local location that I can access transparently through the Finder _sans_ going through the intermediary of iCloud But that was my point. Your iCloud Drive fo...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...