| FTPro to Search Journal Citations - Some Thoughts [message #429] |
Sat, 08 October 2016 15:09  |
Jeffrey Weimer
Messages: 4
Registered: October 2016
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Hello!
I am test driving FTPro to search in PDF journal articles. I want to note
some of my initial findings for anyone so interested.
I am comparing FTPro to Papers. FWIW, I also use Mendeley. Its search
engine is only useful to do a quick-and-dirty finding. I've also tested
EndNote and generally found it too cumbersome (and way too costly for its
feature set).
I did a test run on my library database. For this specific case, I did a
search on the terms:
--> Papers: all:chlorosilane AND all:glass
--> FTPro: *chlorosilane, glass
Papers returns a set of 16 results with significance ranking.
Interestingly, it does NOT find articles where the terms are in the titles
(this is something I've asked about on the Papers support sight).
By comparison, FTPro returns 7-19 items in the "around one line" search and
75 in the broadest search (it has 0 items at "next to"). In the "around one
line" search, it returns the article with the terms in the title. I can see
immediately the phrase that uses the terms.
I would note one odd behavior. When I adjust the slider and redo the search
for "around one line", I get different return results randomly. Sometimes I
get 7 hits, sometimes I get 19 hits.
As a final note, I would add that I've compared DevonThinkPro as well. For
my needs, I find FTPro to be cleaner in its UI, have a more intuitive
approach to searching, and return more useful results.
Hope this helps anyone who is also comparing FTPro vs a dedicated citation
manager (and vs DTP).
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JJW
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