Mailund on the Internet

A while back I tried out Papers.  It is a really great reference manager, but at the time I was working half the time on Linux and half the time on OS X, and Papers only runs on OS X, so I didn’t get a license.  I used Zotero instead.

Now that I have Macs at home as well, wanted to, but I have three Macs and the basic license allows for two.  I was thinking about buying the 5 machine licence, but haven’t quite decided yet.  Synchronising databases is a bit of a problem with Papers, as far as I have read, and that is holding me back a bit as well.

Anyway, I am working on a paper now and got tired of manual editing my BibTeX files, so I googled around and found BibDesk.

Not quite as slick as Papers, but pretty easy to work with, so I am quite happy with it.  It’s also nice that I can just use it on plain text BibTeX files that I have under subversion for the papers I work on anyway.

I don’t think it can manage the PDFs of the papers as Papers does, but that is not really a feature I desperately need, so no worries.

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Now this is good news: LaTeX submissions now accepted at PLoS ONE.

For any paper with more than the most trivial amount of math, LaTeX is really what you need.  Using an equation editor in Word or similar is just too tedious, and the result is rarely as beautiful as LaTeX setup math.

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