Bookends 14.0.5 macOS

Bookends is a 64-bit full-featured and cost-effective bibliography, reference, and information management system for students and professionals. A highly configurable, interactive, and editable interface lets you work with reference information the way you want.

View Groups or Term Lists (Authors, Keywords, etc.) on the left. In the concise reference view on the right, arrange fields in any order, show just the ones that you find useful, and label them as you like. Editing or entering information is a single click away.

Show attachments (pdfs, text files, images, etc.), or use the reference’s URL to show live web pages of its contents. Notecards let you enter, edit, and rearrange your thoughts, and make citing pages in footnotes a snap. Tag clouds let you visualize your terms and word use, and quickly tunnel down to the references you want.

Bookends allows you to share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform. And with Bookends, you can directly search and import references from numerous sources:

• EndNote
• PubMed
• Web of Science
• JSTOR
• Google Scholar
• Amazon
• Library of Congress
• arXiv
• and hundreds of other online sources.

Or use a built-in browser to download references with PDF's and/or Web pages. Also, with automatic searches of PubMed, you can discover articles as soon as they're published. Bookends allows for powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, and virtual groups.

Bookends also offers a robust assortment of file attachment features:

• Attach any file (such as a PDF) to a reference and view or open it instantly.
• Automatically rename and organize PDF files on-the-fly.
• Automatically download and attach the PDF of an article from the Internet if you have access permission.
• Automatically locate and attach PDF's on your hard drive.
• Sync your library with Bookends On Tap on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, so that you have your references and PDF's with you, wherever you are.

What's new in Bookends 14.0.5
• Share synced libraries with others (requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later)
After uploading your library to the cloud, the cloud pop-up menu will have a new option, Share Library. Use it to send an invitation to other Bookends users to allow read/write or read-only access to the library. Once accepted, you (the owner) and others (the participants) can work with the same library. To share attachments, point the library’s attachment subfolder (set in the File menu) to a file sync service folder (e.g. iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.) that contains the attachments, and use that service’s method to share the folder. If you are sharing with Bookends for iOS, the folder must be in iCloud Drive. Bookends will automate much of this for you when you use the cloud pop-up menu Prepare Shared Attachment Folder.

• Specify a library-specific attachment folder outside of the default attachment folder
Use File -> Set Default Attachment Subfolder to bring up a dialog that let's you set an attachment folder for the open library. Click Browse and select the folder you would like to use, and its full pathname will be shown. Note that if you use the pop-up menu instead of the Browse button you will only be offered subfolders in the global default attachment folder. You must use Browse if you want a folder outside of that hierarchy.

• Improvements in the edit pane
In Light Mode, the field label text is shown in empty fields as light gray "hint" text. This is not done in Dark Mode, in which the fields are a darker shade that provides guidance. The height of the edit field will adjust as you type if you're autocompleting and the suggested text is too long to fit on one line. Finally, label text size will adapt if you change the size of reference text in preferences. If the reference text size is set to 12 points, the label text size will be 12 points. If the reference text size is 13 points or greater, the label text size will be 13 points.

• Improvements in importing authors when a JSTOR PDF is attached

• Drag-reorder field labels with a simple click and drag
This previously required that the Command key was pressed.

• If Postbox is your email client, sending an email from Bookends will now include attachments
Sending attachments already works with Mail and Microsoft Mail.

• Floating citation references will include the volume number of edited books

• The annotation popover window will close if you copy the selected text with Command-C or the Edit -> Copy menu

• Bookends will search up to the first 5 pages of a PDF for a DOI when it is attached

• Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in the automated search window "find" function. Fixed a bug in preferences where restoring the factory default for the Summary views set incorrect values. Fixed a bug that could result in "record locked" errors. Fixed a crash that occurred if you closed the preferences window with a listbox edit cell active. Fixed a bug where changing some labels would cause an error. Fixed a bug in editing very large fields where deleting text could cause the view to become truncated. Fixed a bug that in rare circumstances could cause the attachments folder to be moved to the Trash. Fixed a bug where the text color would be black after editing a field in Summary view while in Dark Mode. Fixed an issue with saving edited text in Dark Mode.