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Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite scientific articles scattered on your harddrive? Do you also try to desperately organize them by renaming and archiving them in folders? But like the piles of printed articles on your desk, you can't keep up with all the new papers you download, and despite all your efforts it has become impossible to find that one article. Finally that all belongs to the past. We've been there, trust us, we know. That's why we wrote Papers, our latest application exclusively for the Mac. Papers will revolutionize the way you deal with scientific papers.
Papers' Features
• Papers bundles all the great technologies that come with MacOSX Tiger to give you a completely new workflow for reading scientific articles. You seek, download, archive, and organize all your articles within a single application. But that is just the start, using spotlight you instantly find the paper you are looking for. Read it fullscreen, add your notes, send a copy to a colleague... These are just a few of the many features that once used to, you will never want to give up again...
Search, Download, and Archive Papers
• Papers contains everything you need to get your favorite articles in your personal library. Importing PDFs that you already downloaded before is easy, you match them using PubMed and all the metadata is automatically added. You might as well skip this altogether and start from scratch, the completely integrated PubMed search engine is the number one thing you are really going to like. Three clicks is all you need to find a paper and add it to your library. And finally we allow you to leverage the full power of PubMed using predefined search terms. Looking for all reviews within your favourite topic, with full text open access? You got it!
• Once you have found those articles and have added them to your library, you can directly go to the journal's homepage to download the PDF file and archive it on your mac. All from within Papers, no Safari required, we built it straight into Papers. And while you are downloading your PDF, we make sure it is correctly named and it is stored neatly organized on your harddrive.
Browse and Organize Papers
• Of course you can further organize your library by creating folders to group related articles, or - even more conveniently - by creating smart folders that are always kept up-to-date while you add new Papers to your library. Thanks to the power of Spotlight, you will locate that specific paper in no-time.
• While many other programs exclusively focus on articles, we believe that Journals and Authors are equally important. That's why you can view all the journals and authors in your library with one click. This brings even more ways to navigate your library or search for articles. You can add specific details to an author or journal, like the email address of a colleague or the password to a journal. The final version of Papers will come with the info for most popular journals preloaded.
Read your Papers
• Even though PDFs are nice, until now most people would still print their articles simply because they read more convenient from paper than from a computer screen. Of course you can still print an article from within Papers, but we think we can finally make you forget real paper in many occasions. With a single click you can read a paper full-screen without any distraction. Use the mouse or keyboard to quickly navigate or zoom and you will start to see the benefits from reading a paper on-screen for the first time.
Inspect, Study, Compare and Share
• The real strength of having your personal, digital library of Science shows when you start to inspect Papers more thoroughly, when you want to compare papers, or when you wish to quickly look things up. This is where Papers really shines. Since we built Preview straight into Papers you will never have to switch between programs anymore to read a PDF. Combine this with the ability of tabbed-browsing (made famous by webbrowsers like Safari and Firefox), and you quickly discover new powerful and dynamic workflows. Want to work with a paper? Find it using Pubmed. open its website in a new tab, fetch the pdf, search the PDF using spotlight, inspect the figures in detail, copy a figure or a piece of text, switch to another tab to have a look at a figure from another paper. Switch back to compare. You get the idea. Once you have worked with Papers, you ask yourself why it wasn't there before...
New in Papers 1.1:
• Full-text, blazing fast searching.
• Improved and faster smart groups.
• Much better BibTeX support.
• Solved many bugs and stability issues.
• And much more...
No Longer Free? Why?
Thusfar we released all our programs for free, that's right we asked absolutely nothing. Researchers around the world are now using our programs LabAssistant, iRNAi, 4Peaks and EnzymeX on a daily basis for free. That is going the change for Papers and we wouldn't let people pay without good reasons. Papers is a different beast then any of our previous applications. In terms of sheer complexity Papers in its current state is already at least twice the size of EnzymeX (which is already pretty complex, believe us). To get this all done we worked this summer on Papers for three months fulltime without any other income. This is quite different from our other programs that we all created next to our job as PhD students. In addition, by asking money for Papers we can assure that we will continue to support, improve and extend the program (see below). We hope that all of this doesn't scare you away from giving Papers a try, and that if you like Papers you are willing to show us your appreciation in the form of buying it. Buy a license now and get a 10 euro ($15) discount on a serialnumber that works not only for the preview but includes all 1.x versions of Papers as well.
How it all started...
In 2004 we won the Apple Design Award for 4Peaks at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference in San Francisco. But that was not the only thing that happened. At the WWDC we witnessed Apple introducing MacOSX 10.4 and with it many great technologies for developers to use: Core Data, PDFKit, Spotlight, Webkit to name a few. It immediately struck us that these were the ingredients for an application we as scientists had long been waiting for. The idea for Papers was born. Unfortunately we didn't have time to create it ourselves, our other programs already took up all the time we had, so we told many others about our idea, and expected that at least some people would come up with this great app. Skip forward two years. Still waiting, and nothing had appeared that even came close to what we had hoped for. That's when we decided to do it ourselves. Now, six months later we are happy to introduce you to Papers.
What's Up Next?
The Public Preview of Papers will be just the start. We have loads of exciting and innovative plans that we would like to implement in Papers. For that the initial version of Papers is an absolute prerequisite, but believe us, the real revolution is still to come...
What About iPapers?
We are well aware that the name Papers might lead to some confusion with the similarly named excellent opensource iPapers project lead by Toshihiro Aoyama. Although Papers shares many of the ideas with iPapers, we decided not to join the iPapers team because we had some very specific ideas on what Papers should do and especially what the interface should look like. In addition, we wanted to make use of many of the new technologies offered in MacOSX 10.4. That's why we decided completely from scratch to bring you the best user experience possible. Why then the name Papers? Simply because that names covers best what the program is all about. This doesn't mean we have any problems with iPapers though, on the contrary we really hope that the development of iPapers will continue and maybe even get inspired by Papers.
System Requirements
• Papers will ship as a universal binary and runs on any Mac with MacOSX 10.4 Tiger installed. Due to the extensive use of new technologies we minimally recommend a Mac with at least a 1 Ghz G4 processor or better. In addition, use of PubMed and built-in webbrowser functionality requires an active internet connection.
$39 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
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