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There is a lot I really like:
1. That its simple! Organization of the library, importing papers from the journal site or PubMed, PDFs is very easy and citation work not only in MSWords but also Google Docs and, with some efforts, on Pages and others. Noteworthy, I use med360 for searching literature every day and it works great with papers too.
2. It works on all platforms and comes with a very nice desktop version as well. So, no matter with what you work, it works great. We use a Mac desktop, MacNooks, PCs, and Windos-Notebooks, multiple Chromebooks, Android tablets and apple/android phones and it works great everywhere.
3. Its affordable: I share it with my entire team and this with a truly reasonable prize. Its also great, that some competitors, new OSs on the computer/devices do not require paid upgrades from ReadCube Papers like in some competitors.
4. Layout: I like its layout right from its beginning.
5. The team really helps you and respond to queries!
6. The team improves the service continuously and listen to the users.
7. One can highlight in the PDFs and comment and write some notes that can be fast seen in the list.
8. Because, handling and reading and commenting the PDFs is so easy and can be done on so many platforms, I stopped printing out the papers and work almost paper free with ReadCube Papers! Can you imaging printing and storing thousands of PDFs? Thanks to ReadCube Papers, I stopped it 5 years ago and never regretted it.
9. Last, but clearly not least, ist rock solid! I have >13.000 papers as PDF and it works very smooth and fast on all platforms.
I am not sure what features others share or not as I stopped using the others a year ago. Because I learned that ReadCub Papers is reliable and reasonable prized and comes with a very motivated team! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Actually there are two things I am missing:
1. There are still some minor bugs that are enervating sometimes. E.g. The citation key is generated by the desktop version but does not do it automatically despite one can select the option. But its easy to generate for new imports and takes just few seconds.
What I miss:
1. That I can colorize the folders and lists for easier search within the own library. I have many lists and categories, so color code may help.
2. Citation import into MSWord/Google Docs: I would dream that one simply selects that in the desktop program and not using the Add-ins feature. But the very good thing here is, the Add-in shows the entire structure of the library, so its simple to find the right paper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that I can annotate all my papers with highlights, underlines, and notes, and even add floating sticky notes. I like the color options for annotations and that I can have a main "summary notes" section. It's my main use of Readcube: to organize and read and annotate papers. It's the most basic function of a reference manager and Readcube lets me do it very well. I also like that it's constantly improving in terms of features, like a browser plugin to add papers to my library, and citation software I can use with Microsoft Word. User interface is also great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some papers are not formatted well and this trips Readcube up in terms of annotations, where I can't select certain text or it highlights funny. I also don't like that with many papers, Readcube is terrible at finding the right paper to fill out the metadata. Often only the DOI works. Once you put in the paper's DOI, the metadata automatically fills. But Readcube is bad at finding papers if you just give the title, authors, and/or journal. This is only for the few papers in which the metadata doesn't automatically fill. In general, I have very little problems with Readcube automatically filling out the metadata. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's very convenient to track a published paper, how it was cited and by who. It's amazing to add a reference from the software to the library directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Now it could not make annotation on the pdf file and save it if the file is opened by another ePDF readers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Chrome extension. During Pubmed search, I can import the paper I read.
In addition, it can synchronize between multiple devices. Currently I use it in iPhone, iPad and my desktop computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I also use iPAD version. It is not as easy as other iPAD apps such as Notability or Goodnotes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The reading, annotation and reference-tracking experience.
The highlight with different colours is helpful complemented with the note-taking alongside it. Even better is the direct preview of notes to get a quick revision of the paper.
The recommendation feature to helps a lot in tracking down similar papers to what is in a group, a timesaver.
The integration of Altmetric and Dimensions is very helpful in getting a quick feel of the impact of a paper.
The supplementary sections and the collective look of figures in papers are dealt with ease for quick access.
The addition of dark-themed options puts a smile on my face always. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The inability to locate orphan articles easily is hindering.
The absence of an option to locate a pdf directly to a reference.
The mobile app hasn't the ability to add pdfs too from the phone to the app.
I wish the payment could be subsidised for those of us in developing countries because of the difference in currency value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Syncing to the web for access across multiple devices is very useful.
New article recommendations were handy and appropriate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No major problems using ReadCube Papers so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Automatic import and addition of meta data from files placed in "Watch Folders" makes keeping papers organized simple. The ability to add tags, color marks, flags, and sort papers into (sub)folders makes finding things easy. The PDF reader is feature packed and makes following and downloading citations really easy. It will tell you if the paper is already in your library and gives you the option to import it if it's not.
The browser plugin (Firefox for me) is also really nice for making sure you get proper meta data for papers directly from the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Occasionally, finding the meta-data for a paper, even with manual intervention can be frustrating if ReadCube Papers can't seem to find it -- even if it the only hit on an identical Google Scholars search. It's support for BibTeX seems rather shallow at times -- it will export with unsupported characters and you cannot import meta data for a paper from a .bib file.
The search feature seems to not work that well. I can put in an exact match to a paper's title and it will return 20+ entries with the proper one buried somewhere within. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Convenient with paid version if using Chrome (in theory) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Features don't work well in chrome and work even less in Firefox. Overpriced compared to how Papers was, and the unpaid version has been rendered useless - so if you decided to stop paying subscription your app is not usable for future work and there is no way to export to use different app. They trap you. We need to disincentivize these business models or we'll be stuck paying out the nose to many small companies in the future to do any work at all. Bring back a Papers model that is supported and a one time purchase.
They even admit the desktop version of the app isn't worth using. The browser is the reason to use it and it is not ready. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The cloud-based structure allows easy access to, and management of my references, from anywhere. Clean interface. Allows annotations. Allows sharing with other members of my group. The "#tags option is great. Matching tools are also highly useful and work most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not so much 'dislikes', but a more direct access to the PDFs themselves would we appreciated (maybe a button within the "read" window). Or, being able to read PDFs in an environment that resembles more that of "Preview" (Mac) would greatly improve the experience. Also, I can't seem to properly harness the Search functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
