I’ve tried a recent version of Sente, and it does a really nice job of streamlining the process of importing PDFs into bib entries, but it’s still a manual, one-by-one process. I was very happy to get through about 50 unsorted papers in, I’d say, a quarter hour. For my needs that may be sufficient.
Have you found anything able to digest your 80K papers?
ETA: now that I see it, I remember trying it back when I was still using Firefox. Have you been using the new standalone version? It’s possible that this will be an improvement over the FF version—I switched to Chrome a while back finding FF just too damn slow and resource-hogging.
Yeah, right now I’m using Zotero basically streamline that manual process.
I’ve tried a recent version of Sente, and it does a really nice job of streamlining the process of importing PDFs into bib entries, but it’s still a manual, one-by-one process. I was very happy to get through about 50 unsorted papers in, I’d say, a quarter hour. For my needs that may be sufficient.
Have you found anything able to digest your 80K papers?
Yes. Papers + a personal assistant.
Did you try Papers? It has good reviews, a new 2.0 version, an iPad companion app. Supposedly has metadata import now.
Interesting, I’ll give it a try.
ETA: now that I see it, I remember trying it back when I was still using Firefox. Have you been using the new standalone version? It’s possible that this will be an improvement over the FF version—I switched to Chrome a while back finding FF just too damn slow and resource-hogging.
Yes, I’ve been using the standalone version with the Chrome plugin.