Question for you!

[alexr_rwx]

Academic and studently sorts! What do you do with papers that other people wrote? You get this fresh shiny article, full of really important information that you're going to use or whatever...

Do you have them nicely organized in folders, by topic and author? Do you just delete them? Are they PDFs? postscript? Word docs?

What if you had something that was kind of iTunes-like, but for papers and slides and stuff, and you could sort and search and organize and have a central place to stash all of them? What if I wrote something like that, and it was cross-platform and easy to use and exciting and awesome?

Comments

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

Make sure to check out Endnote, which is the commercial answer to question.

Also, it would be the best if you could somehow make it portable across machines...

What kind of functionality does bibtex provide? It would be a jukebox for papers. Maybe you could feed it into chuck to make music.

It is a good atlhacking project.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was thinking about EndNote a while ago, which probably got me considering the problem... Jacquie fluffyevilbunny was looking at managing bibliographies for a paper...

(although I think this isn't quite like EndNote, and it'd be easier to use than bibtex, which seems a bit esoteric for most users, me included... maybe it could generate citations and bibliographies too?)

Cross-platform is of the utmost importance! ATLhacking, yes! (sorry I didn't make it out, tonight -- I was mostly asleep for the evening...)