A better way to manage journal articles
Sure, there’s Endnote. But it munges your manuscripts. And generally behaves like an app whose marketshare has long exceeded its quality. Not to mention — $239.95?
Enter Papers. Developed by Mekentosj, two biologists with quite a track record, Papers has the creativity and attention to detail that make me want to play with it, adding PDFs and Word docs to it that I don’t really need to keep track of.
While there are still a few interface bugs and crashes, it is a 1.0 app. What it really needs is the ability to cite your stored articles and reformat them according to a journal’s requirements. The authors say that capability is already well-covered by Endnote and its competitors. But heck, Papers has much of those programs’ other functionality already.
Still, you should check it out, if only to see the addictive swash-swash effect when you grab an article’s metadata from Pubmed.
April 26, 2007: Papers v1.1 came out today, and so far seems to have fixed the most serious bugs.
