Starting over

[Hogenson]

I have been using Bookends for a fairly long time, and I have also accumulated a very large collection of pdfs, many of which I do not need but have nevertheless filed in Bookends. I increasingly feel that my library has become very messy and difficult to work with. I am tempted to move all the pdf's to a holding file and erase the Bookends library and start over from scratch--perhaps using DevonThink to index all the documents so I can select the ones I want to use and move to the new library. I am curious whether others have thoughts on doing something like this, or experiences that I should take into consideration. Not in a big hurry, but getting frustrated with my own process at this point.

[nh220]

I am kind of in the same boat in that I have a ton of webarchives and PDFs related to old research projects that I probably will never revisit.

My thinking was just to create a new library and copy over the more "current" PDFs. Since Bookends can sync multiple libraries (unlike EndNote or Zotero), I don't have to delete anything to get a clean-ish slate.

Any reason why that would not work?

[Jon]

None that I can think of.

Jon
Sonny Software

[nh220]

Thanks Jon. I should amend my post by saying that I meant references, not PDFs.

[Jon]

I figured...I'm used to people using the terms interchangeably.

Jon
Sonny Software