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Thought train amc os8/11/2023 I would strongly recommend that you try BookEnds as an alternative to EndNote X8. I base this guess on the assumption that, by then, even Clarivate will get the message then that Apple is not going to rewrite their pdf kit just to accomodate one recalcitrant software developer. If their telephone support response to me that Apple will have to change OS X is representative of the Clarivate’s position, then EndNote X8 Mac may not get ‘fixed’ until the next version of OS X gets released next Fall. However, the EndNote Mac program changes at a glacial pace and as recent experiences prove, not always for the better. I really wanted to like EndNote Mac because my institution (Virginia Tech) licenses it for all of us and it has been a de-facto standard in the academic community for ages. I really didn’t do much with Mendeley since it appeared to me to just be more of the same (similar to Zotero). However, that may just be bias on my part. Also, it was my impression that Zotero wasn’t especially well-suited to science-related work (I am in chemistry) but rather it is more humanities-focused. In my opinion, it should be possible to sychronize a Macintosh to an iPad through local wireless without having to buy a subscription (Mekentosj Papers 2 could do it). I had been through that sort of setup previously with Sente and I didn’t like it. Both programs’ reliance upon a paid subscription to a web server for file synchronization between the Mac and iPad was off-putting to me. Even if I had the time, I wasn’t about to roll back my computer to an old OS because Clarivate either will not or cannot fix their program.Įarlier I looked at Zotero and Mendeley when I got my new iPad Pro. Working a new full-time research job, commuting 90 miles per day, and trying to finish a PhD dissertation made that suggestion impractical for me. Clarivate support’s advice was for me to complain to Apple that they need to fix their OS X pdf kit and downgrade my computer to OS X El Capitan until Apple fixes High Sierra. After failing in my attempt to reverse my upgrade of EndNote X8 back to X7 (my university would not give me a new install code to downgrade EndNote), I tried calling Clarivate to work with them, but the attitude that I got was that EndNote X8’s instability is the fault of Apple and Clarivate is blameless. Usually when a piece of software becomes unreliable on the Mac I assume that it is something that I am doing wrong, but I soon found out that EndNote X8 was an exception. The OS X upgrade necessitated a Microsoft Office 2016 update and following that update everything concerning EndNote unraveled for me. Before that OS X update everything worked OK for me with EndNote. Later, when I took up my dissertation writing again in early January, I learned of the ‘problems’ with EndNote X8 after I updated my computers to OS X 10.13 High Sierra over the holidays. I was somewhat relieved to see that Clarivate (Formerly Thomson Reuters) had quietly removed some of the more objectionable barriers of their iPad EndNote application and that I could finally get some use from it on the iPad. Although I was in the throes of writing my dissertation (I still am), I anticipated starting a new project in another academic department at my university, with a new stream of literature to read. Last Fall I decided to take the plunge and buy a big-screen iPad Pro with iPencil for reading and annotating papers.
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