Your Personal Library of Research

Papers doesn’t just want your PDFs, it will gladly organize all your documents, whether they are word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, posters, scanned receipts, and many more. Papers even has a dedicated space for your own articles, and conference related materials, like your travel documents and posters.

Write. Cite. Done. Papers brings you a revolutionary reference management system with citation capabilities. Cite anywhere, anytime. You can pull up citations in web browsers, in your email client, in presentations, and of course in your favorite word processor. Citing has never been this easy.

Papers2 now allows you to highlight the important sentences in your articles, you can even mark them in different colors. Likewise you can create notes at specific passages or next to figures to capture your thoughts and that brilliant next idea.

Papers supports downloading and organizing supplemental data. Whether the data originates from the publishers website, or consists of notes you took yourself, you can add anything you like and your files live together in your library. It’s that easy.

Using keywords and labels makes for smarter collections, which makes for a more productive you! Regardless of how you like to tag and organize your files, Papers2 can make it happen.

Your papers deserve their own place in Papers. Keep your own work at your fingertips, anytime. Papers keeps track of your manuscripts as well. As soon as you enter a citation, a manuscript file is added to your Papers library. Upgrading a manuscript to published status moves it from manuscripts into the general library, and into My Papers.

Built-in search engines help you find anything you might be looking for, searching a variety of repositories, all at once. Now that’s efficient. You can select search engines to add to your favorites, and with one click of a button search in all of them at the same time.

Import directly from your scanner and take organization to the next level. While you scan, Papers knows what you are reading with OCR support. This makes for better indexing and easier file retrieval.

Print to Papers from any application, whether you are browsing the web or reading an email. Staying organized now requires just one step! Any document can be imported to Papers, but alternatively anything can also be printed to Papers as a PDF. This will help you save those interesting online articles, and important emails.

Read your documents full-screen, and zoom in further if you would like to. Easy navigation bars help you jump to the right page, right away. The cmd+shift+F shortcut gets you into full-screen from anywhere, anytime, even while previewing your documents.

You have never flipped through your documents quite this fast before. With quicklook you do not just get a preview of any selected document, but you can browse between all documents in your library from within the quicklook window. Quicklook is more than you might expect: zoom in and out to get a true quick look at your articles, instead of just seeing some fuzzy text. The space bar or cmd+Y shortcut opens up your document in the quicklook window.

Metadata appears as soon articles are imported. Complete metadata keeps your articles organized and effortless to find, no matter how large your library gets. If a PDF does not contain meta-data (because it is a scan), you can very easily add metadata with the match function. There is no reason for any article to be without metadata!

Research is not done in an ivory tower anymore, and Papers2 makes collaboration truly collaborative. Connect with your peers, whether they are across the hall, or across the world. Introducing Livfe, the next generation of sharing and communicating ideas.

Support for syncing your documents with Apple iOS mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) keeps your documents at your fingertips. Literally. At all times. Instead of a pile of papers in your bag, you can carry your library in your pocket. Read on your commute, when waiting in line, or quickly reference a document before a meeting.

Papers2 embodies compatibility, supporting any type of file and powered with OCR, it is taking organization to the next level. From Microsoft office documents to keynote presentations and screenshots, Papers2 handles it all.

Be smart, let Papers2 organize your information for you. More options than ever are available for you to build the most powerful collections you can imagine, collections that update automatically as you add more and more PDFs or documents. Filter based on content, dates, keywords, flags, authors, and more, with enough options to satisfy all your filing needs.

Papers2 has built-in repositories for searching and organizing patents from different sources. The new organization features of Papers2 then makes it easier to organize them consistently. It is also easy to retrieve any relevant patent later again, using Papers2 full-text search, OCR support or smart collections.