Paperpile: web- and Chrome-based academic writing and referencing system

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Oct 22, 2013 at 03:40 PM

I also wondered about being so dependent on the web. I think the resolution is with the use of the Google ecosystem. Anything in Google Drive can live on your computer if you have downloaded the Google Drive software. Google Drive syncs well with its web-based version.

Daly

Dr Andus wrote:
It’s an interesting development to be able to do all your academic
>writing and referencing in a browser using web applications. I did check
>out Google Docs recently for writing and I was pleasantly surprised at
>it being a fairly decent distraction-free writing environment.
> >There is a subscription fee of USD2.99/mo. for non-business users.
> >https://paperpile.com/features
> >However, this really assumes that you have 100% internet access all the
>time, on all your devices that you want to use this with—which is a
>risk and a cost I’m not willing to take.
> >It would be nice though if there was a universal online reference
>management service that one could use to insert references to any
>web-based writing app (such as Gingko). I might sign up to something
>like that…