Bookends is a recalcitrant mule by comparison to the Papers3 rarinвЂ™-to-go race horse for this need.

Use Papers3 to do complex searches over multiple external databases. I am heading to a point where I am almost convinced that I will The iPad version of Bookends is nicely done to split the database to вЂњbite size chunksвЂќ as needed. The iPad version of Papers3 just a viewer for your entire database. But its internal search panel only allows you to think sequentially with ALL or ANY, not in groupings with booleans. At least Papers3 also searches the document with some levels of simple groupings on internal searches.

This is useless when you have an article from 1966 that did not import well and therefore only has the title вЂњA New Finding in PhysicsвЂќ that is supposed to be handled by the search on the same grouping list that I gave above. You CAN run complex REGEX searches in Bookends, but only on the meta-content to an article. Neither Bookends nor Papers3 are well-enough equipped to set up group searches on content that is already in your database. For example, I would be looking for a menu or preferences simply saying (Set) Search Engines, not looking for a menu File : Import Filter Manager (which, since вЂњimportвЂќ is also a verb, could be taken to mean вЂњimport the filter manager as a fileвЂќ). I am still struggling with what I consider to be a complex or cumbersome or counter-intuitive layout of the menus and preferences and terminologies in Bookends. Papers3 allows you to merge duplicates (sometimes poorly though) while Bookends make you think вЂњWhat the heck am I doing вЂ¦ I donвЂ™t want to REMOVE duplicates, I want to compare/combine/merge themвЂќ? And when you are going to вЂњremoveвЂќ them in Bookends, you have again to do the process in a tedious one-at-a-time, move to a hit list first approach. Then вЂ¦ Then вЂ¦ Then вЂ¦ In Papers3, they are all run at once. In Bookends, you must run each resource one at a time. Papers3 has a far better approach to searching multiple resources on the internet. Consider ((au: somename) OR (au: someothername)) AND ((all: some term) NOT (all: someterm)). Papers3 does far better than Bookends at allowing you to set up group searching methods on internet searches. I suspect (and have heard in passing somehow) that Papers/Readcube has lost/dropped their rights to access certain Web portal databases that gave them the data they needed to do these two functions. I can state categorically these findings so far:Д¬ertain functions that Papers3 once had as best in class are now no longer reliable. I am just doing a knock-down, drag-out evaluation between Papers3 and Bookends.

Importing readcube papers into papers3