Set your Sente preferences (found under Attachments in the sidebar) so that the imported files are moved to a sub-folder of the folder where you keep your reference files. In any case, I suggest to follow the following steps.ġ. There is of course nothing wrong with Sente-ing your files when you first collect them if it does not disrupt your flow. For me such moments often come during the time allocated for writing projects. Thus, in my experience, working with Sente is best done while thinking, reading or taking notes.
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As described in this entry I download the file to a specific folder, assign tags through DefaultFolderX and let Hazel to move it automatically to my file library. What I do instead lets me process each reference file in a few seconds and fully automatically. A lot of small decisions need to be made which contribute to decision fatigue and reduce my focus on processing at hand. Moreover, I may get distracted by other references I run across when identifying the citation, or be tempted to read the article, or get carried away in many other ways.
Opening Sente, importing the file and finding the right citation disrupts this flow. The process of importing an article into Sente is rarely fully and smoothly automated. This is because in the ‘processing’ flow I am receiving a lot of input and trying to quickly make sense of it (as described, for example in this entry on email workflow). First, I almost never do it right when I receive or download a file. Here is how I handle my reference files in Sente. This post is about Sente although the users of Papers may find it useful as well. Nevertheless, I use Sente as my standard reference manager for the lack of better alternative (I have tried EndNote, Bookends, Zotero and Papers and found all of them inferior to Sente). At the same time, Sente has a clumsy and not very intuitive interface and a number of other irritating drawbacks, for example it does not provide hints for existing author names leaving a room for spelling mistakes when you enter author information. You can even share your reference library with a co-author over the Internet so that you use the same bibliography. Sente has other advantages, for example it allows you to synchronize your reference libraries between two or more computers. You can find your reference materials, read, annotate and cite them within one program.
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Sente fits smoother into this workflow because it allows you to integrate your pdf file library with your bibliography.
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I don’t want this reading, writing and thinking process to be disrupted by exporting and importing bibliographic information from one software to another. In the process I often stumble on another article (cited in the first one) I need to read, download and tag it, quickly read and refer to it in my text. I would start writing, then find the needed article, quickly find the citation I need, refer to it (with page numbers etc.) in the text, and insert the citation. Such a workflow does not work for me, because I usually turn to reference articles in the process of writing, not separately from it. In other words, Papers presumes that you first read (and annotate) your articles, then select which ones to use in your writings, convert the references to the right format and then cite them. EndNote, Bookends, Zotero or Sente) before you can cite in your publications. Thus, you need to export your Papers database to one of the common formats (BibTex, EndNote, etc.) and then import it to a bibliography manager (e.g. Although it allows you to enter bibliographic information, it does not integrate with word or text processors. Its greatest disadvantage is that it cannot handle bibliographies. The advantages of Papers is that it has great Mac-style user interface and is also available on iPad. This post was written before Papers2, which introduced managing bibliographies and many other improvements.įirst, a few words on whether to use Papers or Sente. This post covers the workflow for using Papers and Sente to handle your references. 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).
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