These days, it might even be possible to replace something like Papers solely with Bookends. Someone described it as the most Bib-friendly non-Bib reference manager. However, it can produce BibTeX or BibLaTeX. I always say life is too short for LaTeX, so I didn’t use it for that. It has most of the features of EndNote and there’s a iOS version now too (which I didn’t know). It’s normally $60 US with two years of updates included, but it’s on sale now at 25% off aa part of the annual WinterFest 2022. That’s why I switched to Bookends, developed by an indie developer, not a major corporation focussed on money. There is an upgrade price, but it was just too expensive in my opinion. It’s very good software, but they tended to upgrade it pretty frequently. Permanent student license is almost $150 US. I preferred Bookends over EndNote (which I used for ages!) because it was a lot cheaper. You had the option in V1 or V2 of having it open papers in a specified external reader instead. While you can read PDFs in it, a dedicated tool for annotating was, I thought better. I could easily export an entry (or multiples) vi a menu option to my biblio software from within Papers. I believe it could generate bibliographies, too, but a dedicated tool for that - at the time - was better. They also were able to auto fill-in a lot of the meta data for you, although it did need some editing (for consistency) and sometimes would fail. Previous incarnations were capable of searching for papers and then importing them via your university’s publication subscriptions. The academic subscription price is $5.00 US/month. However, V3 seems to be a very corporate-looking/focussed website with only subscription options, whereas the original versions were very reasonably priced with a permanent license. I thought the Papers had stopped development, but I see it’s still alive. On the iPad, Dropbox shares my Papers PDF repository folder (iCloud could be used probably now but wasn’t a good file thing when I set this up) and I still use PDF Expert to read/annotate PDFs. I used Papers versions 1 and 2 on the Mac to manage the PDFs in combination with Open Source Skim as a PDF reader/annotator and Bookends to generate the bibliographies. I don’t do research anymore and I hated LaTeX, but below outlines the tools I used extensively for years (and why), along with a little about their current pricing.
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