Really…because people write papers on the bus on their phones and tablets. Alas, the promised Word beta seems to have been shelved in favor of a mobile application. If I had Paperpile with the capability to cite in word - the search for the proper citation manager was over. It seemed last year, the company finally started to get the message and started a beta program that involved a Word add-on. The expansion of Word features with Word Online, OneDrive and the ability to collaborate has eroded any miniscule charm Google Docs had even further. Ask 5 people and they will give you 5 different answers on why they prefer Word/Writer over Google Docs. I don’t know why, but over the years it feels like the founders are really not understanding the idea that Google Docs is not exactly the most pleasant, or efficient or feature packed word processor out there. This makes it instantly useless in the workflow of about 90% of academics out there for ‘cite as you write’. Nothing else does the job of sequestering papers better than Paperpile. If you ask me, this was its simple trump card. Paperpile does one thing very very well - it grabs papers and puts them in the cloud. Just a few thoughts here from someone who has been with Paperpile since it’s early days when the founders brother announced in on Reddit. There’s surely a chance here for Paperpile to dominate iOS? Sure Mendeley and Papers sync, while Bookends now has some rudimentary, but clunky citation tools, but none offer the ability to actually integrate with a word processor on iOS. No one is doing good citation management for iOS. Good chance it takes over MacOS in the next ten years for actual work. The number of universities with Office 365 is huge, and I still have to do my final edit in Word and gDocs lacks some basic features (starting new sections with new page numbers being one of them)Īnd if you’re truly cloud base then you’re going to have to hop on to iOS at some point. Therefore, I hope you don’t get bought out.Īnd getting a Word add on is crucial at some point. And look what an almighty mess that’s turned into. Papers was a hip young start up at one point. I just want to login and forget about management, so, you know, I can do just actual work and creation. I’m tired of having to manage different apps or folders on different computers or tablets. So, after months of consideration, because we talking about thousands of PDFs and hours upon hours of work, it’s all in with Paperpile. Never lost any data across multiple operating systems and computers.īut as we move more and more to cloud based work it’s not quite doing what I want it to do. Zotero has been good to me for the last ten years.
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