[referencer] Referencer vs. Mendeley

John Spray jcspray at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 06:06:48 EDT 2009


The main difference you'll find with Mendeley is that it has a web backend
which (I think) stores your library info centrally and allows you to do
last.fm-style statistics on which papers are similar to others.  I think
Mendeley might also have better brute-force metadata scraping on PDFs which
don't have document IDs, but I don't really know.
But I haven't used them side by side for some time, so comments from anyone
who has might be more helpful...

John

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Gour <gour at gour-nitai.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I 'discovered' Referencer yesterday after exchanging some email with a
> friend who uses Biblioscape and told me it would be one reason to keep
> Windoze (he is buying Mac).
>
> Since I've to resume my studies I was researching if there is something
> new in Linux arena (in the past I was using tkbibtex & pybliographer
> with LyX and was playing with RefDB). There is, of course, JabRef but I
> cannot use it due to the bug when running under Xmonad WM.
>
> Then, I stumbled upon Referencer and, so far, I like it a lot!!!
> Congratulations to all devs working on it.
>
> Since I tinker with Python (for Django), maybe there will be possibility
> to write some plugin.
>
> However, I've noticed in list's archive about Mendeley and wonder if
> some more experienced user can tell me what would be main differences
> between the two (I also recommended Mendeley Desktop to my Win-friend)
> or if the two are heading into some direction, is there anything missing
> in Referencer to bring it on par with Mendeley?
>
> Personally, I prefer Referencer's GUI (as well as toolkit), along with
> its license. :-)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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