Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini
by hammeiam on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:28PM
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What do you use for pdf annotation and citation management? I really like hosting my own data with zotero+webdav, but there basically is no interface. On the flip side, Mendeley has a ton of features, and works+looks great, but hosting is paid.
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Mendeley also encrypts your PDFs so that you can't access them with other software.
Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini
by chipotle_coyote on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:20PM
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Depending on what you want for PDF Annotation, Readdle's PDF Expert (as close to full-fledged Acrobat as you're likely to get on the iPad) or the intriguingly weird LiquidText are good options.
It's worth getting over LiquidText's initial weirdness. I downloaded it and then didn't use it for half a year, but when I gave it a go with some PDFs I was reading, I was hooked.
Grabbing parts of a book out into the workspace is easy, and then you can quickly review your workspace of highlights and notes later for a refresher. Also, viewing two places in a single PDF is as easy as tapping and holding on two highlights in the workspace.
Liquid Text is one of the cleverest apps I have ever used. And PDF Expert also rules
I don't think there is a single good app that handles both. Mendeley has its own issues aside from being paid, and the PDF viewer feels subpar compared to even Preview. I have zotero just push new files to a dropbox folder and that can be accessed everywhere.
if you’re using Zotero check out Papership which is a pretty good iPad client. I haven’t run into a missing feature yet.
Also would recommend, if you want paid hosting, pay for a Zotero account with extra storage (run an academic group at George Mason University, aka the good guys). Don’t give money to Mendeley which is owned by Elsevier (definitely the bad guys).