![]() I had been through that sort of setup previously with Sente and I didn’t like it. Both programs’ reliance upon a paid subscription to a web server for file synchronization between the Mac and iPad was off-putting to me. Even if I had the time, I wasn’t about to roll back my computer to an old OS because Clarivate either will not or cannot fix their program.Įarlier I looked at Zotero and Mendeley when I got my new iPad Pro. Working a new full-time research job, commuting 90 miles per day, and trying to finish a PhD dissertation made that suggestion impractical for me. Clarivate support’s advice was for me to complain to Apple that they need to fix their OS X pdf kit and downgrade my computer to OS X El Capitan until Apple fixes High Sierra. After failing in my attempt to reverse my upgrade of EndNote X8 back to X7 (my university would not give me a new install code to downgrade EndNote), I tried calling Clarivate to work with them, but the attitude that I got was that EndNote X8’s instability is the fault of Apple and Clarivate is blameless. ![]() Usually when a piece of software becomes unreliable on the Mac I assume that it is something that I am doing wrong, but I soon found out that EndNote X8 was an exception. ![]() ![]() The OS X upgrade necessitated a Microsoft Office 2016 update and following that update everything concerning EndNote unraveled for me. Before that OS X update everything worked OK for me with EndNote. Later, when I took up my dissertation writing again in early January, I learned of the ‘problems’ with EndNote X8 after I updated my computers to OS X 10.13 High Sierra over the holidays. I was somewhat relieved to see that Clarivate (Formerly Thomson Reuters) had quietly removed some of the more objectionable barriers of their iPad EndNote application and that I could finally get some use from it on the iPad. Although I was in the throes of writing my dissertation (I still am), I anticipated starting a new project in another academic department at my university, with a new stream of literature to read. Last Fall I decided to take the plunge and buy a big-screen iPad Pro with iPencil for reading and annotating papers.
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