Best reference manager and PDF editor for Mac?

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Posted by Hugh
Sep 27, 2019 at 12:09 PM

PDF Expert is good, and I like it. But if you wish to OCR scanned documents and have no other means of doing so, PDFpen or PDFpen Pro from Smile Software will do most of what PDF Expert can do, though perhaps not as sleekly, and OCR as well.

Posted by Wojciech
Sep 29, 2019 at 12:43 PM

Thanks a lot for all your advice and suggestions!
With best regards,
W

Posted by Beck
Sep 29, 2019 at 12:55 PM

I would like to second Luhmann’s recommendations, I use both Paperpile and Bookends and am very happy to hear that Paperpile is headed toward a stand-alone approach.

Luhmann wrote:
For reference managers I can make two recommendations:
> >1. Paperpile. This is web-based, but they are working on a stand-alone
>app that will eventually allow you to do everything in a plain text
>editor like Ulysses, or in Word for Mac. They also have an iOS app in
>beta that is already pretty good. Right now it is mostly designed to
>work with Chrome and Google Drive. It works very well already if you are
>OK using these tools.
> >2. Bookends. This is one of the oldest mac reference managers and is
>still going strong.
> >https://paperpile.com
> >https://www.sonnysoftware.com/

Posted by J J Weimer
Sep 29, 2019 at 08:21 PM

FWIW, a parallel discussion is ongoing at MPU Talk about replacements for Papers3.

https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/papers3-successor/13891/

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