Re: Combining all libraries & using groups?

Author: Alexander Shenkin Posted: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:13:17 -0500

Thanks Lars. I very much agree with your identification of the shortcomings of the groups - I hope ISI is working on that. In my view, it's the most essential component they need to improve.

One point though - I think the question isn't so much whether the groups are working as well as they might, but whether they sufficiently replace the functionality of separate libraries enough to switch over to a combined library. I don't know about generating subject bibliographies, so that might be a deal-breaker for you (I've never done it, as far as I know). There's also the issues of the restricted searches and the bugginess, which is a serious concern. Aside from these three issues, I'm not sure I'd be losing much functionality by switching over to a combined library.

thanks,
allie

Lars.Bauer "lars.bauer" wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't do that. In my opinion, custom groups are good for quickly organizing your references on screen, but that's it. Besides the fact that you can't organize them in a tree structure, there is, for example, no search functionality (neither can you run and/or searches by
(shift/alt-) clicking several groups nor can you include your groups in the search window). Furthermore, you can't include custom groups in subject bibliographies. Accordingly, there is no possibility to print/export references from more than one group at once. Finally, I'm not sure if the feature is now bug-free: before patch X1.0.1 EndNote suddenly didn't show any references in two of my 25 groups (this didn't occur again since I've installed the patch, though).

Lars

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Hi Folks,

I've traditionally kept my references in separate libraries (who wants papers about lemurs mixed in with 19th century references on the rubber boom?). Now EN X1 has custom groups available, so I'm tempted to put all my refs in one library and use the groups instead. This would be nice.

One problem is that the implementation of groups in X1 is pretty darn clunky, so I'm afraid to put all my eggs in that basket. Does anyone have experience with this who might be able to give me some advice here?

Also, if anyone from ISI reads this, here's my suggestion: Take a look at how Adobe Photoshop Elements 'tags' photos. While not perfect, it is a much more elegant implementation than what X1 has managed so far (ex, you can click more than one group at a time, hierarchical organization of tags, etc). I'd suggest going that direction.

Thanks all.

allie

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