Academic Article Management Software

[DeadCactus]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

Anyone have a good system for storing, reading, annotating, and citing articles in an electronic format? Preferably something that has both iPad and desktop access and syncs between the two. I was looking at Papers but also came across Paperpile which might work well if there is a second party iPad annotation app that plays well with it.

Anyone use anything besides skim the physical journal and then put it in a cylindrical file?

 

[eteshoe]

I use Mendeley - free for up to 5 GB of storage, iPad and desktop apps that can sync your annotations, etc. Been using it for the last 4 yrs and can't complain too much.

 

[AlgernonMed]

Check out Read by QxMD. It's pretty easy to use, although I'm not sure if there's a desktop option for it.

 

[humble_nous]

Papers is great -- one of the best academic purchases I've ever made.

 

[wholeheartedly]

I like Read by QxMD as well, but I don't do a ton of annotating. I feel like its best utility is keeping up with various topics maybe moreso than storage.

I also had a cool desktop program that was eventually going to be made into an app. It was a major document databasing program called DevonThink. It could tag by key words, annotate, search handwritten notes as well. But as powerful as I think that could've been, I never really took off with it. Pretty large time commitment up front getting things organized. Just wound up saving articles in folders by subject.