![]() Therefore, adding only entire documents to categories will not do good. If you read a good academic paper it most likely contains interesting information about lots of different areas. You probably would never find this annotation, except you skim through all your documents in all your categories. Actually, this scenario is very realistic. However, the information is in a document about spamming Google Scholar and hence part of the “(Academic) Search Engine Spam” category. Where would you look for the information, given that you are not a genius but just a normal student or researcher? Probably in the category “Academic Search Engines -> Google Scholar”. Second, and more importantly, imagine you remember that you have read in one of your documents that “4,530 PowerPoint presentations, and 397,000 MS Word documents are indexed by Google Scholar”, and you want to look up this information. This allows you to find the information you are looking for much faster. In Docear, you can display annotations of multiple PDFs in multiple categories at the same time. That is not optimal because it requires a lot of time. So, what would you do? You would have to select each document in the category and scroll through all the annotations. If you are no genius, it’s more likely that you might remember the category, but not the document any more. If you were able to remember the category, the document, and where in the list of annotations the annotation is you are looking for, you would a) be a genius and b) wouldn’t need a software to organize your literature. Now, imagine you have 200 documents listed in a dozen of categories and each document had about 20 annotations. And then, you would have to find the particular annotation in the list of annotations. Then, you would have to remember in which document you read the information. First of all, you would have to remember that this information relates to your category “(Academic) Search Engine Spam”. Mendeley as an example of a classic three or four section user-interface for reference managementįirst, imagine you have read in one of your documents that Google Scholar indexes invisible text, and you want to look-up this information, to read about it in more detail. Why is this such a massive advantage? Let’s have a look how other reference managers let you manage literature, and you will understand… Third, you can create categories within a PDF and sort annotations within that PDF. Second, you can move annotations to exactly the category they belong to even if the corresponding document remains in a different category. First, you can see annotations (comments, bookmarks, highlighted text) of different documents at the same time. This approach offers three massive advantages. It offers a single-section user-interface with all the information in a single place (see screenshot below). But before explaining these three unique features in more detail, have a look what other researchers and students are saying about Docear…Ī) Docear’s unique approach for organizing literatureĭocear is different than any other literature or reference manager (‘different’ as in ‘better’).
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