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Organize scientific articles.

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Needs -lots- of work

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Contributed by: bongoherbert Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 09:28 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

It is a good (I wouldn't say 'solid' as others have) start. It still crashes with great regularity, doesn't seem to be able to always use PubMed well to find document info, suffers from (acknowledged) redraw problems.

I have several thousand papers in PDF living in a DevonThink database that I would love to be able to better organize with something like Papers.

However, not everything I have is PubMed-able, so other search engine plugins might be nice (DOI resolver maybe?)

My only main complaint is that this clearly alpha-version (remember back when 'beta' and 'public preview' meant 'feature complete'?) has the gall to be time-limited. I can understand the authors' desire / need for some funding for the project, but why not do something more positive, like provide early-adopters (i.e. alpha and beta testers) a price break on the eventual product, or the ability to buy in early for a reduced price.

I'm not comfortable putting enough of my database into the program to really 'test' it, since it is crashy, and paying for it in this mode is sort of out of the question.

On the plus side, however, is that it looks really promising. No one is forcing me to use it in its current form, so I'm just hoping for it to get a little better.

  
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Needs -lots- of work - mekentosj

> but why not do something more positive, like provide early-adopters (i.e.
> alpha and beta testers) a price break on the eventual product, or the ability to > buy in early for a reduced price.

Thanks for the heads up, you seem to have missed however that the price we currently ask is indeed a reduced one as long as the program is in preview. Also, in our view (this may differ from that of others) a public preview comes before a beta version that comes before a 1.0 release. So in that way, yes we could have called it an alpha version as well. We make it very clear that it still requires a lot of work. And thusfar it has a trial period, but we have reset it in the new preview as another positive action. We are however very grateful to those who already registered and supported our efforts to bring another cool and unique app to the mac.

Mek en Tosj

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