But since I hardly ever did that, it wasn’t much of a loss.īibTeX keys were all replaced when I imported my library from Mendeley. It is easy to add notes to each paper, but it is not possible to highlight or annotate pdfs directly. Paperpile does not allow annotation of pdfs. I can easily search within pdfs on GDrive. My workaround is to sync my Paperpile library with Google Drive, so all the pdfs are stored in Google Drive as well as in Paperpile. It will not allow searching within pdfs, unlikely Mendeley which is particularly good in this area. Paperpile’s search facility is limited to metadata (titles, authors, journal name, year, abstract and notes). There are some things I’ve lost in making the move from Mendeley to Paperpile: The switch from Mendeley was very easy - Paperpile simply imported the whole library, and it was ready to go. I tend to set up a folder for each paper I am writing, and then export a bib file for that folder. Papers can be assigned to folders (which are actually more like tags as a paper can appear in multiple folders). References can be shared by email from within Paperpile, including any attached pdfs. There is a marvellous Chrome extension that detects references in the current browser tab and imports the details into your Paperpile collection with the click of a button. There is also tight integration with Google Scholar.
#Paperpile vs zotero pdf
A local copy is cached so if you come back to the same pdf later, it will not download a new copy. Just over 2000 of my references have attached pdfs and they are accessible on every device.
#Paperpile vs zotero install
So there is no software to install other than a Chrome extension. It is blindingly fast and, like all good software, just works. It works differently from Mendeley and Zotero, in that everything is stored in the cloud and is accessible on any device with the Chrome browser. Even poor research students can afford that. Paperpile is not free, but it is relatively inexpensive - $2.99 per month for academic users. I’ve now been using it for over a year, and I have grown to depend on it every day to keep track of all the papers I read, and to create my bib files. Then I came across Paperpile, which is not so well known as some of its competitors, but it is truly awesome.
#Paperpile vs zotero update
I have over 11,000 papers in my collection of papers, and I was spending several minutes every day waiting for Mendeley just to update the database. Eventually it simply couldn’t handle the load. I did use Mendeley for several years, but it became slower and slower to sync as my reference collection grew.
One of the first things I tell my new research students is to use a reference management system to help them keep track of the papers they read, and to assist in creating bib files for their bibliography. Most of them use Mendeley, one or two use Zotero.
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