If you have entered a new title for a note, the macro creates a new text document in the central note depository on your computer.Īfter you have entered the first note in your new text document, the macro asks you if you want to open it. ![]() The default for the body of the note is the clipboard. What the macro does is take variables for the title of your text document and the first note you want to take in it (it can be nothing). My solution is a macro which, when invoked via hotkey, allows me to instantly create a new note, and, thereafter, append additional notes to the same working text document, without opening a note-taking app or a text document (e.g., in TextEdit). In short, I don't want to have to go through the steps of a) creating a new text document to record my notes for a particular document I'm reviewing and b) switching back and forth from the app in which I'm reviewing a document to a text document or app where I'm recording my notes. But, again, even those great apps aren't conducive to the rapid-fire note taking that I like to do without leaving the app I'm using to read a document. I am also a big fan of note taking apps which populate the apps' notes from a designated folder or database of plain text notes, like Simplenote or nvAlt (by Brett Terpstra). Also, the steps for creating a new note and saving it in the right folder are time consuming and just another deterring hassle. However, if I've got to switch back and forth between the PDF reader, or whatever app I'm reading a document in, that becomes a maddening hassle quickly. My preference is to type out notes rather than hand write them, as I review the documents. As a lawyer, one of my common tasks is paging through large PDF transcripts and records. I am a big fan of note taking using plaintext notes. I also tried Sente, Zotero, BookEnds and EndNote, but nothing was comparable to Papers in its ability to organise, annotate, share and cite.NEW NOTE:APPEND TO EXISTING NOTE.kmmacros (41.5 KB) For a while I used Mendeley – it worked ok, but I always had a feeling that it is not an app developed with a user in mind. ![]() As crashes became frequent, I searched for a replacement. However, a few years ago Papers was discontinued and started to be less compatible with new versions of macOS. author, year of publication and title), annotate these files, and finally insert citations and bibliographies referring to this work during academic writing.Įarlier on Macademic, I wrote many entries on Papers, in my view the best academic reference and pdf management software for a Mac. Ideally, such an app would help to find scientific publications online, download and organise the relevant files (usually in pdf format) on local computer as well as related bibliographic meta-data (e.g. ![]() ![]() There are several Mac apps that can support this process. This means constantly identifying, absorbing, engaging with and eventually challenging prior academic work. The ultimate purpose of academic work is to advance and disseminate knowledge.
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