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1. #DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION HOW TO#
2. #DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION INSTALL#
3. #DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION ARCHIVE#

No vendor lock-in, no dodgy or dangerous games with your data. You can move away from Docear at any time – you’ll still have your annotations, your PDFs, your BibTeX reference files.

#DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION ARCHIVE#

If you want to search your entire archive of papers, you can do it using grep on a command line or with any text-search and indexing system that can read your file system (I use Recoll).If you just want to view your Docear file on Android, i0S, or using any mind-map viewer, you can open it (albeit with limited features) in FreePlane, FreeMind, Xmind or the many associated pieces of software that can read these files.If you just want to change a bibliographic reference, you can just use the bibliography manager (or a text editor) to do it on any computing platform without even firing up Docear.You are probably always going to be able to edit and view these files on any platform.What all this means for academics is that In general, Docear conforms with the tenets of Unix Philosophy i.e.: Docear is designed to be modular, clear, simple, transparent, robust, and extensible for users and developers. Docear, JabRef and FreePlane all work together or separably on most platforms.Text-based files enable version control and collaboration (including with your future self).Docear’s plain text-based file formats for are searchable and editable.It’s Open Source software using well adopted, documented and supported file formats.My choices are driven by issues of long-term software sustainability, and focus on cross-compatibility, reliability and stability. There are lots of good reasons listed on the Docear website that compare Docear’s features to Zotero, Mendeley or other reference management systems. Why Docear works for a long-term research strategy

#DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION INSTALL#

To get started with that, first download and install Docear, read Docear’s own very good user guide to understand the basics, then come back and read this 1.

#DOCEAR PDF READER SUGGESTION HOW TO#

If you’re starting a PhD or a research process, and thinking about how to keep up with the literature long-term, you might want to think about using Docear in the ways described here. If you don’t know what Docear is, you could spend 6 minutes watching this video. This guide will outline some ways to use this software with long-term sustainability in mind. With that in mind, I am using Docear to limit the damage that software can do to my literature reviewing and thesis preparation process. My belief about software is that it’s usually a nightmare, and your choice should be driven by considerations of damage limitation. There are many software systems that purport to be helpful in managing academic literature, and everyone swears by their own.