Enhance your research capabilities
Since I work in Academia I end up dealing with a lot of articles, tech reports — papers in general. Having a way to organize them for me and others who need to access them is rather useful.
I just tweeted these with the #macappgem hash on Twitter. It’s a useful grouping to have handy and they are all free.
I just tweeted these with the #macappgem hash on Twitter. It’s a useful grouping to have handy and they are all free.
Two are open source.
BibDesk - is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X.
Skim - is a PDF reader and note-taker. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
The Third is also free and is a teaser for what the more robust Bookends by Sonny Software can do for you. Reference Miner is included in Bookends but Sonny Software makes it available for free for, well, mining references on the web. Pretty straightforward and useful.
I should add that you don’t need to be a LaTeX user to get some benefit from these apps. You can use them to create your own bibliography for document management purposes and output the file as HTML to then add to or use as-is.
BibDesk
Reference Miner
Skim
BibDesk - is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X.
Skim - is a PDF reader and note-taker. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
The Third is also free and is a teaser for what the more robust Bookends by Sonny Software can do for you. Reference Miner is included in Bookends but Sonny Software makes it available for free for, well, mining references on the web. Pretty straightforward and useful.
I should add that you don’t need to be a LaTeX user to get some benefit from these apps. You can use them to create your own bibliography for document management purposes and output the file as HTML to then add to or use as-is.
BibDesk
Reference Miner
Skim