Currently, I use Papers for organizing my PDF library on my computer. reviewed several PDF reader/organizers, like ReadCube, Papers, and Mendeley. you’d never need to download PDFs to your own computer. If all those things happened, I’d be happy to switch away from Mendeley and use PubReader instead (especially now that Mendeley is part of Elsevier).įor pubmed, i think you can create collections. I’d also like for there to be a way to use it offline and to save notes. I guess I could click from Mendeley back to PubReader but that seems like a hassle, and I’ll probably end up just sticking with the PDF. Saving PDFs to my Mendeley database is my way of making a to do list of papers to read. For me at least, finding papers to read and reading papers are usually two very separate tasks. Yeah, the biggest problem to me is that I didn’t see any way to create a database of references to come back and read later. Maybe in a year or two, we won’t even store our PDF archives on our computer and instead just use Pubmed for everything. I checked it out and I’m really impressed! If they also had a way to display the references in a sidebar, it’d be near perfect. Have you tried the new Pubmed Reader? I’ve only looked at it briefly, but seems like a really beautiful reading experienece, and the way it shows figures in the bar at the bottom seems awesome, since my biggest issue with reading on a screen is still flipping back and forth to the figures. I really wish I could mash Papers, Mendeley, and Readcube all together into one feature-rich program… But I might try Readcube some more, mainly because of the awesome ability to see all the references and the paper simultaneously. I’m not ready to give up on Papers for reading (and I’ve been using Mendeley for Word citations, because it has really nice collaborative features). The screenshot above is from Papers fullscreen view, which is how I really like to read PDFs.īut Readcube is still in beta, and they’re starting from a really nice starting point. I don’t see a way to read in full screen nor does it let you view two pages simultaneously, like Papers does. It doesn’t have a way to insert citations into a Word document, like Papers and Mendeley does, although you can export to Endnote. Other than that, Readcube is quite feature poor. From my quick scan, the recommendations seem pretty good. The final interesting feature is that Readcube offers recommendations based on your library. It makes an excellent reading experience! More importantly, it displays the references in the sidebar. The really cool feature is that Readcube automatically downloads the references and the supporting information documents and can display them at a click of a button. The article data downloads seamlessly for most papers, and interface is quite beautiful: I did so because Nature has been using it built into their site, and I like how it displaying PDFs. I recently tried Readcube, which is a PDF reader and organizer. Readcube review Apat 11:45 am | sam | literature, software
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