I find the built in browser of Sente more user friendly than Bookends’. – if you have a PDF file open in Safari, use the ‘print to Bookends/Sente…’ function in the print menu Importing references and attaching PDF filesīoth apps have a variety of options for importing references and adding PDFs, including In Sente, the term lists are accessed via an icon in the upper tool bar. The library pane of Bookends, on the other hand, offers quick navigation to terms lists of authors, journals or keywords, plus default smart groups of authors, recent searches, and attachments. In the left library pane, Sente also offers the option of filtering your references based on different time frames of recent modifications, as well as by rating or status. If you are in list view, however, you just set up the columns according to your preferences, and then you can easily rearrange your library based on e.g. Bookends offer similar options, but it’s more cumbersome if you’re not in list view, because you need to select all references, right click, navigate to ‘sort by…’, and then select your option. In Sente, you can easily rearrange your library according to title, name of authors, dates added or modified, and a range of other criteria. Here are some screen shots for comparison, with Sente first and Bookends second. In Bookends, you can also use the lower pane to see the tag cloud, which I’ll talk more about below. Both offer list and standard views, with a tool bar on the top, a library view to the left that provides an overview of folders, smart groups and other organisational features, a reference view to the right that offers different windows where you can view additional information about the selected reference or edit reference information, and a third pane below where you can view the attached PDF or related web sites. In several ways, the UIs of Bookends and Sente are quite similar. Since that post contains quite a few Sente screen shots, I’ll also be using more space here on displaying Bookends (with a bit of empty space after a few of the screen shots which for some reason I can’t mange to format away…) If you haven’t already read my first post on Sente, I encourage you do to that before continuing this post, as I’ll be referring back to it here. However, EndNote is not very useful for organising PDFs and also doesn’t come with annotation capacities hence I use alternative apps for those purposes. I am still sticking to EndNote for formatting my research papers in spite of its clunkiness and old fashioned streak, in my experience it’s the only app I can really count on to a) function on all the library and journal web sites I regularly visit, and b) import and format reference information with the highest level of accuracy. – importing, organising and annotating references and PDFsįor those interested in cite while you write functionality, I’ll state up front that I won’t be addressing that here. – the mac versions (I’ll address the iPad versions separately in a future post) In this post, you’ll find my first impressions of Sente versus Bookends, with a focus on While I have been using Sente for a while to manage my PDFs, I’ve been curious about Bookends since I first heard about it, and recently I decided to check it out.
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