The iPad app costs $7.99 (rather reasonably priced IMO although it is also available via Setapp) and is available on the iPad as well as the iPhone (and Macbook). Although Texpad’s symbol editor tool is handy, I recently came across an app that makes complex typesetting, and equations, in particular, easy and intuitive.Ĭue: Mathkey. Texpad is still my LaTeX editor of choice (I wish this could somehow be integrated with Overleaf) and its latest version, with several updated tools, makes editing in LaTeX rather simple. The larger screen is more conducive for split-screen usage and the Apple Pencil compatibility is awesome (gives my post on note-taking tools a whole new depth - I should revisit that). For those not in the know, LaTeX is a typesetting language that has many uses, and can be particularly useful for writing manuscripts.Īfter graduating from a 8.2” iPad Mini 2.0 to a 9.7” 6th generation “educational” iPad, I’ve been getting more and more writing done on iPad. It is *still* remarkable to me that I can continue chipping away at a manuscript that I was working on in the office outside at the park - on a piece of glass. I’ve been using LaTeX (enjoyably!) on iOS for quite some time now. Outcome: You have all your Papers’ PDFs in the Bookends Folder. The time for the overall transition including the wait for iCloud to upload all these files (make sure there are no small ‘uploading’ clouds visible in Finder!) was about ~20 mins. For context, I copied ~1500 PDFs (of ~5000) from the Papers’ search folder and pasted into the Bookends folder (in iCloud Drive) first before doing the rest. Move the PDFs to your Bookends Folderīefore you move anything, make sure that Bookends on your desktop is closed.ĭepending on the number of PDFs you have, I would recommend moving in segments. Outcome: You are able to select all the originally-named Papers PDFs under one search. pdf and then ‘add’ a search where you filter by PDF kinds. In this overarching structure, search for. Go to your Papers’ virtual library/database location in Finder to start this procedure. But this also poses an advantage: now we simply need to gather all the PDFs wherever Papers stores them (with intact names!) and paste them into the Bookends’ folder (inside the iCloud drive). This problem stems from Papers’ opaque Virtual Library and file handling system. If imported correctly, it will yield an error that the PDF (with a long, machine-readable string name) cannot be found. Since you’ve already imported references from Papers, Bookends will be populated, but they will not have PDFs attached to them. Potential Problems: If you receive a “no references exported from Papers” error, try restarting Bookends (while keeping Papers open). Outcome: All the references move into Bookends but not the PDFs (or attachments, in Bookends’ parlance). “Import References from Papers”īookends has a handy built-in option to import references from Papers (or Sente or EndNote): File → Import References I strongly recommend reading the official website’s FAQ, tutorials, support as well as the provided documentation. Try editing a reference manually and get familiar with the Bookends interface. You also have the option of autocompleting an entry ( Refs → Autocomplete Paper or Cmd+Shift+C). Trying out Bookendsīefore moving your entire database(s) to Bookends, I suggest you try out some simple functionality by dragging and dropping (or searching for) a PDF of a paper and check whether an accurate reference is retrieved. Here are the steps I followed for my transition from Papers to Bookends (including the associated setbacks and successes): 0. Spoiler: I managed to do this with relative ease. I now had the seemingly formidable task of moving all my PDFs and their attached references from Papers into Bookends. After making the radical decision to uproot my reference management system, I decided to take the plunge with Bookends ($73.99 for MacOS+iOS version with an additional $9.99 per year Pro features on iOS).
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