#Mendeley mobile for mac#
#Mendeley mobile pdf#
#Mendeley mobile update#
#Mendeley mobile software#

My university employer is very unlikely to buy me Papers (especially given that it only runs on Macs, which my university uses few of!) and the cost of Papers - particularly on an academic salary in the developing world, such as a have - would be tough to justify even if I did have a Mac at work.ДЄnd on that note, there is a potentially large user base waiting in the developing world as more universities get online, more universities start pushing for research results from their faculty, and more students who grew up with online communication (Internet access not infrequently spreading very rapidly in the developing world) start getting involved. And, of course, Mendeley (for all the obvious improvements that it still needs), is free. So I can run Papers at home, but not at work. Unfortunately, my university employer is not a Mac shop, and at work a Windows 7 machine crouches on my desk. I love my Mac, and have been a Mac-user ever since I switched from a DOS machine to a MacOS 7 machine as an undergraduate. However, Papers also has some limitations - the most significant being the very prosaic issues of platform and price. Papers does have some significant advantages over Mendeley, both on the desktop and on the iPad. Until then, I think that, for now, Mendeley won the mobile war because, at the end, if you own an iPad, you will spend lots of money in many apps, cases, keyboards, and stuff, and every cent will count, specially in smaller (poor) countries.

#Mendeley mobile update#

I will end sooner or later buying the Papers for iPad, and maybe I will update this post. In fact, US$15 here in my country are almost 5 times more expensive, if we consider the GDP per capita. I went to the companyвЂ™s office, thinking that I should pay for a new cell phone, and then the girl from the company told me that the phone was free of charge, because вЂњto our company, our customers are important and we want to keep you with us for many yearsвЂќ. I canвЂ™t make annotations, I canвЂ™t search in search engines like in Papers butвЂ¦ when some folks have been working hard to keep an App free of charge, and when, in the other side, some folks decide to charge (reasonable, of course) for the iPad version even to current users from the desktop application, wellвЂ¦ I remember when I lost my cell phone once. But I am getting used to upload papers in my online account and then downloading them into iPadвЂ™s Mendeley. So, I started to use Mendeley (despite that I hate MendeleyвЂ¦ in my iPod touch, Mendeley crashes often). I donвЂ™t know if the App Store allows to make such a discount nonetheless, having paid for the iPad, the case, the iWork suite, and some other necessary stuff, paying for Papers in iPad for now is out of options. Having paid for the Mac version, I would expect a more affordable iPad version for PapersвЂ™s current users. Again, Papers seemed the winner again, butвЂ¦ Papers allows you to make annotations and highlighting.

#Mendeley mobile pdf#

In Mendeley, you have to upload your pdf files to your online account (timeвЂ¦), and then, back into the iPad, download the papers in Mendeley (more timeвЂ¦). Papers allows you to sync pdf files even via WiFi. The battle seemed unfair from the beginning. But Papers and Mendeley were right there, ready for one more battle. We need more time so the apps improve their evident flaws (for example, no error bars in Numbers?). I truly believe that the iPad can be useful for research.

#Mendeley mobile software#

The launch of iPad opened a new battlefield: which software would come to colonize iPadвЂ™s bibliographic management?ДЄnd then, finally, I manage to have an iPad. However, the future is here, and mobile devices are staying for long.

#Mendeley mobile for mac#

I am still believe that Papers for Mac is way better than Mendeley, although I respect so much Mendeley because of its integration with web (and saving papers and reading them everywhere) and the online community and sharing capabilities (and, obviously, because itвЂ™s free). One of the goals of this blog is to keep you posted with my experiences about Mac in research.ДЄ series of posts regarding bibliographic management have been very read and commented.