Papers is another “iTunes for PDFs” program, only it seems to be dripping with 10.4 programming magic. It’s aimed at mac using researchers (and the pre-release features are geared toward PubMed users), so the general audience won’t care, but for a small subset of people it’s really fantastic.
I think this thing incredible, but I’ll go ahead and start with the caveats:
- It’s a “preview release,” which means it’s far from done.
- It crashes periodically.
- The preference pane is completely empty.
- It only supports PubMed right now (but has a plugin architecture which will eventually allow for many search engines).
Now, even given the above, I still plan on using it as my main journal article program because it gets so much else so right.