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Managing your PDF library

If you have already got a lot of PDFs then you probably have a personal approach to managing all of the content. For example, I keep everything sorted by topic in a directory structure. Here are two ways that seem to provide a better approach (both are interesting): Papers and Digital Editions.

(via Pascal)

This was written by Grant. Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2009, at 6:00 am. Filed under Link. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

4 Comments

  1. anon wrote:

    If you use BibTeX, jabref can help index the PDFs. Or you can save them in Zotero.

    Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink
  2. Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:

    While I have no experience with Papers or Digital Editions, I find Zotero to be an excellent Personal Digital Library.
    I supports items being in multiple locations in a topical hierarchy of folders for those tricky papers. e.g. Does web programming with continuations go under web programming, or language features?

    It also has full-text indexing, tags and can import and export(for backup or transfer) data from/to a variety of sources.

    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:26 am | Permalink
  3. Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:

    PS Zotero is a firefox plugin, so it gets the metadata when you download the pdf, rather than you having to type it in.

    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:32 am | Permalink
  4. Grant wrote:

    Thanks Stephen and anon.

    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:41 am | Permalink

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