ReadCube Reviews & Product Details - Page 6

I enjoy ReadCube utility to store articles, access PDF, open PDF's for ease of reading, and facilitating sharing articles with colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I currently do not dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to work on multiple platforms, important for me when reading on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was using Mendeley before, and it took me a while to get used to some of the features on ReadCube. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In general, this management tool is effortless to use. I can import articles easily. By creating relevant lists, articles can be archived systematically. And I can also make annotations anywhere. Furthermore, we can export all the annotations, which can quickly help us refresh our memory about the important ideas of the article when we read the article several weeks later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am positive about almost all the functions of Papers. The further improvement may be that we can write something directly next to the paragraph or sentences, which can make these notes more visible to our eyes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Readcube Papers is accessible and synchronized on all my devices, my iPad, mobile, and PC. It allows separate file storages within the application which allows me to organize for different research projects. The app works fast and efficiently. I can also use its citing tool on MS Word, making referencing easy in parallel with my reading processes. I think it's a must-have, especially for early researchers like me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using the citing app (SmartCite) within MS Word can occasionally slow down the PC. Also, it would be great if there's an option to share my notes on a paper with others (non-subscribers) through a "view-only" sharing option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you highlight anything in the pdf file, it can generate an annotation list. This helps so much when I try to browse through all my papers. Also I love they could download the si figures and file for you directly. Importing and labeling papers are also easier than endnotes. Even if we have free endnotes through the university I'll still choose this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is only one tiny issue. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I used it wrong. Normally how I use it is to download pdf and import it into the library, after that I delate the file to the download folder. I think for other similar software, they would generate a library folder and copy your pdf to that folder, so you're safe to clean up the download folder. But here, if I have done so, it has to redownload pdf from the Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While reading, you can highlight inside the pdf files and quickly check all the highlighted sentences later in the library without reopening the pdf file, which helps save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not all journals support checking the reference list while looking at the main text. And sometimes, it's annoying that the notification bumps out so often of updating reminders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature of the ReadCube is it runs smoothly across different devices, I can access literature anywhere easily from my iPad or mobile, and quickly share and discuss with colleagues. Compared to other literature managing applications, the user interface is beautiful and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can not really point out something specific that I dislike, but it will be great in the future to have a visual graph feature to show the connection between literature, for the user to find out what field is the hub of the field or what topics are lack of research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find it useful that I can get PDFs via my instutional credentials. I like that I can export my citations through Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like how the sentence-case, journal abbreviations, and author initials are not consistent. I would like more variations of popular citation styles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have always thought that my notes or annotations should be searchable with a digital platform for reading and this has that, which is sadly rare. Also, it has a mobile app that syncs with the desktop and web versions so I can work when and how I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The selection tool is a bit finicky. I've had trouble selecting the text that I want to highlight, which, at times, has been incredibly frustrating. I think some of the time it may be the quality of the PDF documents, but it happens enough across documents that I think there needs to be some fine-tuning under the hood Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All my sources are at my finger tips and so accessible. Whether I am at work home or on the go, the web app has all my papers stored in the cloud, with highlights, lists, supplemental materials, and notes ready to augment my studies. The inline citations and citing articles provide insights into the next works to read and easily add sources to my library. The number of tools at my disposal just continues to grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Searching for authors or keywords has not been consistently great. Sometimes an obvious word from the title wouldn't bring up the correct result or a slight misspelling of an author name leaves me searching for the article for 5 minutes. This has been much better recently, so they are actively rixing this issue. The other biggest problem for me right now is version control on preprints. I need to update these manually once they move from preprint to published and usually the article undergoes revision so my highlights and notes are not ported. It makes me hesitant to use Readcube Papers with preprints. But then again, I really have no better choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.