Best reference manager and PDF editor for Mac?

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/