Initially, it felt like a a huge leap forward after using my manual, index card-based system, but after a few years, I got tired of the crashes and the fact that Endnote seemed to break after every update of the operating system, or in the final stages of finalising a paper for submission 2. After I had written my thesis, I decided that it was time to move into a bright and shiny future vis-a-vis referencing and start using Endnote. Then there was the nightmare of dropping the box and spilling out all the cards (as happened to me more than once). It actually worked well enough, but it was laborious to construct, didn’t work well when I wanted to find a reference knowing, for example, only the second or last author. In fact, when I wrote my thesis in the early 1990s, I didn’t use software at all, just index cards stored in an index box. Over the years, I must have used just about every reference manager available for the Mac. Measuring my career in reference managers Thus, part of my motivation in writing this is to encourage anyone who is curious about Bookends to give it a proper trial. However, my impression is that Bookends suffers slightly from being eclipsed by better known and superficially more flashy reference managers, which - as you’ll discover if you read this review - I find a crying shame 1. Reference managers are a niche product to start with, and even if you already use one, the chances are that you will feel this is a deeply nerdy and over-detailed review. If you have scrolled down, you will already have seen that this review is a bit of an epic. I’ve been really impressed with the software and thought it might be nice to do a review. A while ago, I mentioned that I’d moved to using Bookends for my paper-handling and referencing needs.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |