Your Personal Library of Research

Papers organizes all kinds of PDFs, not just research articles. Whether they are news releases, patent applications, tickets, knitting patterns, songs, books, scanned receipts, you name it! 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.

Papers allows you to save notes with your articles. Whether you are reading in full-screen or browsing your library, you can attach a note to any specific article or entry. When you want to share your notes with colleagues or friends, you can easily export or email them directly from Papers. Your next brilliant idea can be captured and shared before you would find a pen to jot it down.

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, Papers 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. Once you found the article you want, just download it directly into your Papers library. Now that’s efficient.

Read papers published recently by authors you like to follow, or from periodicals you frequently read. Papers can do a quick search for recently published material, and add your new finds to your library with a click of a button.

Found interesting content on the internet? Staying organized just takes one step! Import your favorite content directly to Papers. This wil help you save those interesting online articles.

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 the preview window you quickly see a preview of your document before you open it to read it full screen. Preview 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.

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 Papers 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.

Papers opens several entries at the same time in different tabs. Keep several articles organized and open at the same time, and switch between them with a click. When you are writing a paper reference different resouces without losing track of an endless number of open windows.

Papers will automatically organize your library into folders based on the parameters you set (e.g. by Author, Year, Publication, etc), and rename your PDFs if you would like to. Finally you will never rename a PDF again from "P04343943.pdf" to something will will actually by able to find.

Be smart, let Papers 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.

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