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Reference/PDF management software that works with a Mac?

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MonteCarla · 20/10/2018 17:50

I really would love to be able to drag PDFs into the software, it would extract the author and journal title, and I could read the PDF in that software and highlight/make notes. I could then by some wizardry export cited texts into my Word doc.

It MUST work with a MacBook.

Unfortunately Mendeley does not do the above with a MacBook (I have been on and off the phone and email to their technical support team for the best part of six months, to no avail!)

Does such a thing exist?!

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impostersyndrome · 20/10/2018 20:24

Hi think Endnote does this.

lll77 · 27/10/2018 12:14

I use Mendeley successfully on a MacBook Air.

I set up a folder on my desktop that I save all my pdfs in and I then set up Mendeley to sync with that folder and it all transfers across without any problems.

murmuration · 03/11/2018 06:12

Papers is meant to do all this.

I use it mostly to organise PDFs and then use Endnote for Word, but that's because I understand Endnote's formatting and haven't bothered to learn how to control Papers' output. But it does all that - it automatically 'matches' to a database (which sometimes requires curating), you can open/read/highlight straight from the software, and you can select from your Papers library in Word for references. It's also meant to sync with your iPhone/iPad so you can read all your PDFs there, too, but I haven't tried that.

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