Organising Academic Papers

Some time back Greg Restall posted an interesting question about trying to organise academic papers in format akin to iTunes. Certainly programmes like EndNote can handle that in a typically bibliographical way. EndNote is powerful, oriented towards academic work and the ability to create and format references within a Word document is very handy. However, it is a tiresome interface that just plain lacks panache.

Well interestingly enough, you can manage .pdf files in iTunes itself. Just drag them in and then use a smartplaylist to organise them. Quite nice, but a little confusing.

One programme I have been exploring is Delicious Library. I like that it has a very OSX style interface, that you can enter details easily (or better yet using iSight or a bluetooth barcode scanner) and that it organises all your media collectables, not just books. Still in early days with the programme, but it seems to have lots of potential.