Tag Archives: Sente

Trying Sente instead of Papers. Two annoying setbacks.

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Aleh Cherp

Following the disappointments with the recent version of Papers I am trying Sente 6, a competing reference and pdf management software. The initial impression is unfortunately not very good. First, I wanted to email two references to a colleague. Papers can do this through a … Continue reading →

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Guest post by Ez: Annotating PDFs in Papers, Sente, Skim and other apps

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Aleh Cherp

Ez responded to the post on annotating pdf in Papers with a comment so useful I reworked it, with Ez’ kind permission, in a separate post. It was prompted by John asking about a “simple workflow”: ‘… [to create] referenced notes … Continue reading →

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Three stages of the academic workflow and Mac software

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Aleh Cherp

The’academic workflow’ is a representation of scholarship as a series of stages or steps connected to each other without gaps or duplication. Although simplified, the idea of the workflow helps to structure, develop, and communicate tools, knowledge and experience across … Continue reading →

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Papers 2 is here!

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Aleh Cherp

My earlier post on Papers and Sente said that the biggest disadvantage of Papers is that it does not allow working with bibliographies. This has changed in Papers 2 immediately bridging the gap between pdf file management and scholarly referencing. As a … Continue reading →

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Using Sente and Papers to handle references and bibliographies

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Aleh Cherp

Sente and Papers are popular Mac utilities to handle academic articles. Papers focus on organization, reading and annotation of articles, whereas Sente’s primary function is bibliography management (citing articles in your own publications and creating bibliography lists). This post covers … Continue reading →

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