I previously wrote about how I capture OmniFocus tasks with only my voice.I’m using this same method to capture other information in Drafts and Day One. I’ve found new ways to utilize my Apple Watch as a capture device. My challenge now is finding the time to read and process it all! This is a small price to pay for such power.I'm finding even more relevant information these days using QxMD Read.
You must later open Bookends on your Mac and rename the PDF to your naming convention. The only annoyance is that if you save the PDF to your library, it receives a numerical name.
The paper and its metadata are immediately available on all of my devices.The process works pretty seamlessly. I click Open In… and then select the Bookends icon.Bookends works its magic, finding one (or sometimes more) suggestions as matches.I choose the matching metadata and Bookends imports the PDF and metadata into its database.
The ease of importing full entries is one of the many places Bookends outshines Papers. If the PDF cannot be found, I email the entry to my personalized Omnifocus Mail Drop so the paper is added to my Omnifocus Inbox.If the PDF is downloaded into Read, it is then a simple task to move the document into Bookends. While I’m scanning the abstract, Read attempts to download the full-text PDF.About half the time, Read finds a PDF and downloads it into the app. Finally, I chose specific journals, keywords, and collated collections.Once set up, Read began scouring the medical literature for new articles.In a single screen, I scroll through all the new publications (titles, conclusion, journal, etc.).If I find something of interest, I click on the title to find more information, including the entire abstract.
First I made a QxMD username and password. This iPhone & iPad app provides a simple interface that drives discovery and seamless access to the medical literature by reformatting it into a personalized digital journal.” One comment describes the app as “The Flipboard of Medical Literature.”The app was easy to set up. According to QxMD, Read “provides a single place to keep up with new medical & scientific research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed. Jordan Komisarow, brought the app to my attention. Until recently, I was not familiar with QxMD Read.