bibtex export?

DEVONthink Tips
1

Hi,

I am currently evaluating DEVONThink Pro. Everything seems OK so far, but I have one question. How do I export BibTeX? Is this possible? Is it planned?

Thanks!

2

No, that’s not possible and there are no such plans for the near future.

3

Thanks for the quick reply, although it’s not the reply that I wanted to hear :cry:

I guess I’ll give up on Devonthink then, since lack of bibtex export is a showstopper for me. I can’t think of any researcher in my field (computer networking) that doesn’t use bibtex, so it would make it impossible for me to collaborate with anyone.

Thanks anyway!

4

I’m confused. I use DT happily and am a heavy user of Latex and Bibtex. But I can’t actually see any use for Bibtex Export. What would that do? DT itself isn’t really a manager of bibliographic information; what I use it for is mining the content of the publications that are in my bibliography.

What I do is use BibDesk, the Bibtex database management software for OS X, which (with its autofiling features) helps me maintain a directory of pdf-files linked to the entries in the bibtex file. And then, I have DT index that directory, so that the full text of my pdf-files is fully mined for content work.

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I guess I don’t really understand what devonthink is used for then :confused: What I am looking for is something that will let me organise all of my thoughts, PDFs, references, etc into particular topics. But then when I want to write a paper on a particular topic, how do I export the bibtex references for that paper? Can you explain more about how to use devonthink and bibdesk together?

Currently I am using a combination of tiddlywiki, spotlight, bibdesk, and a bunch of shell scripts that call bibtex/bibtool/mdfind. This works OK, but I was hoping for an all-in-one solution, which is how I stumbled upon devonthink.

TIA.