#MOING BIBDESK LIBRARY TO PDF#

Additionally, a tag name can correspond to papers belonging to different folders. This method is 'non invasive', meaning that a paper can have several tags names. Similarly you can search ' Smith' and save the result with a tag name SmithPapers.fnd. Open /Papers and search files with 'all or part of the file name': ' Fat'. I recommend you to do so, just for general classification. You DON'T really need additional folders inside /Papers. Then place your paper wherever you like either in one or the other folder. If you want, you can have other folders inside this folder: /PapersAboutMeasurement, /PapersAboutBelly, etc.

#MOING BIBDESK LIBRARY TO PDF#

Put all your pdf and jpg in a folder: /Papers. Smith_MeasurementBellyFat_JFatPeople2010.pdf Let say you have a bunch of papers about Fat People. This method requires you name your pdf/jpg or any file with a meaningful name. Then you can click on the tag name and voila. This method consists in saving a search event with a tag name. I use an extremely simple method built-in in windows, but very few people use it. This is also how I organize data, again with lots of redundancies, the files mirrored between the different folders.Īnd of course I have an enormous 'to read' folder. All the papers I more than skim, I have also printed out, but just sorted by author, as I can much better read on paper than on screen. This way, I can turn to each folder depending on what I want to look at: if I'm doing research based on technique, I turn to that folder etc.

I have a small document in each of the folders with very brief summaries of the parts relevant to each group (which I try to keep updated, best way for me to do this is to already take notes while reading). And yes, there is a lot of redundancies, as most of the papers can be sorted in each category. In each of these, I have more finely divided sub folders. I also use menderley, and have a few different parent folders I roughly sort the papers into (and also the pdfs) first, like techniques, materials, and scientific question tackled.

Moing bibdesk library to