iPhoto/iTunes for your digital medical library
I got an email from a Mac software developer this morning. He had seen a post I had made on another message board, and he was asking me to try his app. It's called Yep, and I must admit that I really like the it so far. (It's so pretty!) You can tag documents with your own custom tags, or let the app do it for you — if you've got them organized the way I do by directory.
It'll scan your entire hard drive for PDF documents, which to me is not really useful, so I narrowed its search parameters to only search my medical library, which up until now, I have kept organized by hand.
Yep will continue to watch a directory, and automatically add any new PDF to its index. Naturally it is searchable, and you can manage the documents from within the app itself. You can also configure a custom menu item to access an external website for a given search term. (It defaults to Google Scholar.)
My only complaint about Yep — and it's incredibly shallow — is that the logo is terribly ugly and non-Mac-like. And the name, I suppose. I guess we Mac users are a superficial group, on the whole…
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For the harder core life scientists out there, Jonathan at Nobel Intent reviewed Papers (also for Mac OS X), and it's got some nifty PubMed functionality that Yep does not have. (And which I don't need, as I am not a researcher.)
[tags]Digital library, Yep, PDF management, Mac OS X, OS X[/tags]
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