The award winning reference management application Papers has just been updated to version 2.2

• Recent papers search for Authors and Periodicals
• Auto-complete of authors and sources in the inspector
• Editing of multiple papers at once and duplicate merging of papers
• Merge and split any duplicate or incorrectly merged sources
• Displaying and navigation of notes and highlights in the inspector
• Addition of tools to allow page rotation and hiding a PDF coverpage
• Creating of collection hierarchies upon import of folders
• Return of column mode for search results in the search section
• Support for inserting footnotes in Microsoft Word
• Improved Papers for iOS syncing

The full list of new features are described here.

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DEVONthink has been updated, this maintenance release prepares DEVONthink Pro Office for the upcoming sync technology, introduces the new Activity panel, brings interface and usability enhancements, and fixes some minor bugs and glitches. It is recommended for all users of DEVONthink Pro Office.

DEVONthink Pro Office only:

• Improved: Compatibility to eastern European languages.
• Improved: Support for all versions of ExactScan.
• Improved: Threading of imported email messages.
• Fixed: Installation of Apple Mail plugin with ~/Library/Mail replaced with an alias or symbolic link.
• Fixed: Creator and producer attributes of OCRed PDF documents.
• Fixed: Size of date field of metadata entry window.

DEVONthink Pro and up:

• NEW: Script Add message(s) & attachments to DEVONthink for easily importing both messages and attachments.
• NEW: Support for categories of Atom feeds.
• Improved: Opening multiple databases uses now one progress indicator.
• Improved: Support for sheets, e.g. imported .csv files, with varying number of columns.
• Improved: Scripts > Import > Del.icio.us no longer uses the discontinued keychain scripting. In addition it is able to download and set a thumbnail for the group again.
• Improved: Encoding support for Add mailbox(es) to DEVONthink and Add message(s) to DEVONthink scripts.
• Improved: Automator action Set Current Group.
• Improved: Smart groups in the sidebar using the Date Opened condition are immediately updated.
• Improved: Handling of feeds not containing dates.
• Fixed: Issue preventing Sente 6 smart template from linking back to the original reference in Sente.
• Removed: Obsolete script Scripts > Feeds > Apple - Latest Mac OS X downloads.

DEVONthink Personal and up:

• NEW: Activity panel. Replaces the OCR Activity panel.
• NEW: Copy Frame Link contextual menu command for movies.
• Improved: Handling of Quick Look panel on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later.
• Fixed: Two issues with tabbed document windows.
• Fixed: Crashes caused by Quick Look on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (workaround).
• Fixed: Dragging linked images from Safari stored them as bookmarks since the latest Safari updates.
• Fixed: Bookmarks to pages of PDF documents didn't always work on OS X 10.7 Lion.
• Fixed: Duplicate shortcuts in Format popup menu of Clip to DEVONthink panel.
• Fixed: Empty folders were not always deleted e.g. after deleting indexed items.

All editions:

• NEW: View option View > Columns > Aliases and sorting option View > Sorting > By Aliases.
• NEW: Number of items in groups , smart groups, and feeds is now displayed right aligned and gray.
• NEW: Creating new documents in Tags view adds them either to the currently selected group tag or to the inbox of the database and tags them with the currently selected (ordinary) tag(s).
• NEW: Double-clicking on entries in the Log panel reveals them or shows them in the Finder if possible.
• Improved: Data > See Also > Classify can now also be used when the drawer is already visible, e.g. to close it using the keyboard shortcut.
• Improved: Reliability when inserting links and attachments into rich text documents.
• Improved: Memory management.
• Improved: Overall reliability and performance.
• Fixed: Some minor user interface issues on OS X 10.7 Lion.
• Fixed: Smart groups using Item contains aliases were not always automatically updated.
• Fixed: Mouse cursor did not show as arrow over popup and clear buttons of search fields.
• Fixed: Reordering items in ordinary tags (inside the Tags group) wasn't possible in unsorted views.
• Fixed: Send by Email commands were not disabled if no documents were selected.
• Fixed: Using services or Clip to DEVONthink could cause issues while synchronizing with DEVONthink To Go.
• Fixed: Spotlight metadata cache didn't always contain all files.
• Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

There is a list of reference management applications here.

Utopia Documents is an interesting PDF reader that has a number of useful features. It allows you browse through a publications images using a screen flow like display. It also provides links to online resources to enhance the document.

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Reference Miner searches the Internet to find and display reference information from PubMed, Amazon (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy, and China), Google Scholar, JSTOR (requires access privileges and ip authentication) and the Library of Congress. The Internet search features of Reference Miner, and much more, are built into Bookends. If you own Bookends you do not need Reference Miner.

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There is a new update to Bookends (11.2.4 )

• Updated Google Scholar direct search and Autocomplete Paper to deal with changes made by Google
• Import abstracts from Google Scholar Note that the abstracts Google Scholar provides are incomplete, but still may be helpful.
• Type ahead search works in the single column reference list The search is always for the author, regardless of the sort status of the list. It will only jump to an exact match of the typed characters.

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I’m just catching up with things that happened over the last month or so and I noticed that the reference management application Papers has been updated to version 2.1.

If you want to know what features are currently being developed for future versions of Papers have a look at the roadmap.

There is a list of reference management applications here.

The Organic Chemistry Reference Resolver is an invaluable web service that takes as input a text reference to a published article in a variety of formats and then finds and displays the corresponding publication.

The real beauty of a web service is that it can be accessed via a variety of means, including an applescript. This applescript uses as input either text that has been copied to the clipboard or the text the user has typed into a text box, it submits the request to the web service and displays the result in the web browser.

I’ve just added ReadCube to the reference management page.

The latest version of the web-based reference management tool WizFolio has been released, with a Youtube video showing it in action on an iPad.

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