Paperpile

paperpile.com

41 points·bowyakka··6 comments

So this is effectively a commercial equivalent to Zotero[1] in Chrome? (Zotero is an open-source reference manager that's built as a Firefox add-on.)

As much as I used to like Zotero, I now use Mendeley[2], which has for better or for worse, been acquired by Elsevier.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/ [2] http://www.mendeley.com/

When my wife (then girlfriend) was doing her masters, I set her up with I, Librarian (http://www.bioinformatics.org/librarian/). At that time, it was (from the dozen or so that I tested) the best open source reference management software that I was able to deploy and make small customizations to. This was some time ago, nice to see the domain is still active.

Zotero is awesome thanks, I might convert :)

The only thing that really makes me jealous of OSX is BibDesk. I have never understood why nothing like Bibdesk has been written for *nix/Windows environments. Yes I know about jabref/mendeley/pybliographer/zotero, I do not think they come close to Bibdesk's citation AND pdf management.

I prefer Papers 3 - would rather be in control of my saved papers than rely on a SaaS that could go out of business whenever.

Actually Paperpile saves the files on Google Drive so you can always have a backup on your harddisk. You also can export your library as RIS or BibTeX so you are always in control of your data.

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