Organising your PDF files
Anybody who has been working with PDF files knows that organising them is really a problem.Especially when the files are research papers.i have tried several methods that are available currently available to organise PDF files,including annotating them with Endnote,using google desktop to index them,special file organising software like easy articles, personal brain ,and Paperworks.But they all lacked some or other feature that was indispensible.
If you are in the academic field (who are my target audience) then you must be knowing that just organsing PDFs is not enough you need to have the citation/bibliographic data for the papers also.I have been using this service called Citeulike which allows you to store the paper references that you need or intend to read and also allows you to export the reference to Endnote.Till now the service allowed you to store just the reference!..now a new feature has been added that actually allows you to upload the corresponding PDF file for a reference,whereby you can access the PDF when and wherever you want via an internet connected PC.The ease with which you can access your files is just mindblowing. Head overand try the fantastic service.
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Have you tried Connotea, and if so, what do you think?
Mr. Gunn
October 22, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Yes i’ve tried Connotea too and i love it but it lacks something that i am not able to point out exactly that Citeulike has.Speaking of organising PDFs i’ve now found peace in a fantastic piece of software called Papers – unfortunatley Mac only! Available at http://mekentosj.com/papers/
bala
October 22, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Im really looking for a program that will go through my pdf’s that I have stored on my computer and rename them according to either authors or title of pdf from within the pdf. I know this is a big ask but whats the best piece of software for organising pdf’s directly on your pc rather than online?
Tom k
May 7, 2009 at 10:19 am
Try http://www.mendeley.com/ Would have a review up here soon.
bala
May 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Thanks Bala…am going to try mendeley beta
Iqbal
June 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm
hi,
I have stumbled on your post while looking for a program to organise my 10+ Gb collection of scientific articles. you said you have already tried a lot of organising programs. can you seggest on for me please? I am looking for a program that will allow me to look into a pdf file and tagg it with some keywords then I can do a search on those keywords and I can copy the files containing a specific keyword into a directory.
I hope I am not asking too much…
Lucian
Lucian
July 16, 2009 at 6:51 am
oh btw I am a windows user so this probably makes the problem tougher…
Lucian
July 16, 2009 at 7:05 am
@Lucian As i’ve put in the comments, Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) seems to be the best one out there for now. Hope that would help you out.
bala
July 17, 2009 at 10:28 am
Mendeley would be just the perfect tool for this; unfortunately it has a pdf upload limit of 500Mb which is definitely not adapted to our needs (I have also more than 10Gb of pdfs).
If this is increased in the future, I would definitely use Mendeley.
NellyG
September 25, 2009 at 10:44 pm