The APA formatting it produced for my references was perfect. My daughter kind of wigged out when I showed her how I could add references while browsing the web, find relevant articles based off ones I was already using in a paper, search for new references, quickly insert references into a paper, and then change every citation and the bibliography from MLA to APA in about 4 clicks. If you can stomach writing in Google Docs and use Chrome, Paperpile is kind of magical. If you need a citation manager I liked Zotero and it worked well enough but eventually switched to Paperpile. Evernote would be tremendously easy to search and organize on a paid plan and it's really easy to add content. It depends whether you want a citation manager or something just for organizing and searching content. But from everything I've heard it's pretty limited still. I don't know much about Readcube as I'm just not writing papers anymore. If you're doing more serious research and paper writing then pretty well Papers is the only real game in town still, for all its flaws. For fields I just use Tags and then have some Keyboard Maestro scripts that can generate text from the tags. I then will use PDFPen to annotate them as needed and OneNote to take notes on them. But it's then trivial to read them on my iPad when I just want to read or if I'm doing searches I just use Spotlight on my Mac. Unfortunately Files on iOS does't really leverage tags well - hopefully with iOS12.
I just put them in a shared iCloud folder so they are synced to all my devices. I have a ton of academic ebooks and papers. If this is more casual academic use then I'd advocate just skipping using anything but the Finder and occasionally iBooks. I know you mentioned academic papers but is this just for casual reading or is this for specific research for writing a paper? There's a pretty big difference between organizing invoices, bills and notices and say organizing scientific papers for citations. It'd help if you explained your workflow. We are currently considering going back to EndNote, as much as this pains me, but there has been so much instability with other PDF/reference managers. We used to use Mendeley, but they got rid of their team plans (that we paid a lot for) so we had no choice to but to find a new solution.
Finally, Readcube was supposed to take their citation manager out of beta in October and is still in beta an very unreliable. There are also some major bugs in how certain references are matched up and are nearly impossible to fix in a library once they start.
They were supposed to release a Papers -> readcube conversion tool to preserve tags and collections, but have not released it (was supposed to be out by November). Specifically, the group collaboration features are browser only, and really only supported in Chrome.
#Readcube papers 3 alternatives license#
Readcube has missed 3 promised deadlines for improved features and bugfixes so our license has been extended each time for free. We have a license in my lab group for both Papers3 and Readcube. They are only issuing minor bug fixes to address major problems and are working to transition Papers3 over to the Readcube platform. As a FYI, Readcube purchased Papers about a year ago, and all development (aside from bug fixes) for Papers3 has ceased so currently there are no plans for future improvements or versions of Papers on any of the OSes.
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