![]() ![]() Any emails I receive regarding my research, is also fed into DTPO. All my RSS feeds in regards to Academic Journal publications are dumped into DTPO, as well as any news articles/websites relating to the topic. I annotate there – albeit by means of roundtripping the PDFs via DTTG2 into Goodreader, and back again – and I set-up my linked annotation notes etc. Over on the Mac, as mentioned - I live inside DTPO. Regarding why I sync my BE library to BEoT on my iPP > given that I am quite comfortable writing in Scrivener iOS, I can insert citations into my writing using BEoT, and since I then need to be able to check the particular page number of the source I am citing, it makes sense to have the full attachment available in BEoT.īut all of the above, is speaking to my approach on iOS primarily. (b.) I have done a full sync of most of my DBs from DTPO to DTTG2 on my phone as well – for the same reason: I have the space – so between the two of these apps, I will in any event have everything on my phone, references and PDFs. I may as well take the plunge and sync all the PDFs across to BEoT on my phone as well, since it would fit comfortably. ![]() (a.) I now have a 256gb iPhone 8+, and still have plenty of space left. That being said, 2 points in this regard: In this instance, I don’t need to ‘see’ the actual PDF attachment, I just need to verify if it is something I have already found. My thinking on this point is that I always have my iPhone with me - so if I am in a library somewhere doing research, and I up and leave my desk to walk into the book shelves, should I come across a book that looks interesting, I have my BE library on my phone, and can quickly check to see if I have that source already. I then also sync to BEoT on my iPhone – but this is without the attachments. I do sync to BEoT on my 12.9" iPP, but since I essentially have a duplicate of all my academic PDFs (a ‘clean/original’ folder that Bookends sees and then importing the same PDFs into DTPO, through a service-action on that folder), the synced PDFs in BEoT are the ‘clean’ versions of the PDFs. As it stands, whereas both DTPO and BEs annotation tools are sufficient, my particular approach to annotation has only been properly catered for by Goodreader, and as such – I do all of my annotations there. I’m really just looking to improve my work flow…īookends is no doubt an incredibly powerful tool, with plenty of add-on functionality in regards to PDFs and annotations that have been added over the recent years.īut as mentioned, I was already all-in with DTPO before setting up BE, so I simply continued along the way I had been doing things. I don’t sync them within Bookend’s iPad app, though. ![]() Having the PDFs in iCloud is pretty handy. I am also ideally looking for a solution that will work well with my mobile setup, i.e., my iPad Pro. I bought DTPro years ago and never really figured out where it was supposed to go, but was inspired this week to revisit the app and see whether it might not help me overcome some of the above. Doing that has its problems too, as I don’t always remember that something is in there, and I also end up with duplicate PDFs with different annotations, which is a pain. Scriviner has also been good, and I thought it convenient to dump everything project related into its research area: PDFs, JPGs, notes, websites, whatever. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, at best I get a result when a word is in the reference, but if I have long notes in the notes field, Bookends won’t take me right to the word I’m looking for. I’m really just looking to improve my work flow.īookends is great, and it seemed terrific to link PDFs with the references, but I’ve been frustrated that searching within Bookends doesn’t search the linked PDFs. ![]()
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