your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

I don't have that many yet; maybe one day! Just want to get started right early on. Good point re searchability in bibliographic software; maybe I should be deciding on that before I do anything else... I'd been thinking of RefWorks (free at my school but apparently not exactly intuitive to use), Zotero and Mendeley; whatever I use has to work across PC and Mac.

mendeley imo

Vote noted, thank you

Papers (http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/) is excellent.

oh man i had no idea it was cross-platform now -- second that, papers is great

Thanks! - will give it a go.

Trial is constantly crashing on me in OS X. Will have to contact them I guess.

It was a corrupt pdf. Anyway, think I may end up using this for storage but it doesn't seem as good as Zotero or Mendeley for reference management?

I liked Sente a lot for that.

Hmm no tabs though... I can see this is not going to be a one-piece-of-software deal...

Anything in the new MacHeist worth bothering with? Strongbad just isn't enough to justify the price tag for me...
http://macheist.com

Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(

I sync via dropbox.

Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(

I haven't had any issues but I use it sparingly so

or do you mean across multiple machines? cuz I've just got iMac + phone + pad

Two Macs, iPhone, iPad. I've had some notes not updating. I've had some notes created in Simplenote that just don't make it to NV, ever. I can edit them in Simplenote on phone/pad/webapp but that's it.

I've had great luck with the alternative fork of NV. Support for tags, etc. The original NV/SN combo was breaking down, so I tried this one out and have had good results

so i found out about sublime text the other day---anyone using it?

yes, love it.

i like it so far, but it's hard to break out of vim thinking

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

This little tool allows you to visualise what files are on your disk and I've just managed to exorcize 80GB of duplication and guff using it.

windirstat, which is basically the windows version of the same, is also pretty awesome

I shelled out a few bucks for a mac program that is a little prettier and has some more functionality to burrow in. Can't remember what it is at the minute.

disk inventory x does the same thing and is free also

less flashy, but my fave http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/

Yeah, stick with one of those. I think I got some sort of incentive deal on DaisyDisk but its regular price is... $10? yeah, don't pay that much.

I use Disk Inventory X as mentioned above: http://www.derlien.com/

Definitely worth to use one of these programs so you can easily figure out what's taking up all your space obviously porn

i just ran GrandPerspective on my work laptop and found a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB wtf??

I've used both Omnidisksweeper and DaisyDisk.

i like daisydisk

Top tip I used after discovering Chrome.app was taking 1.5GB was to go into the Package contents and delete deprecated versions which Chromes seems to keep but not need.

If i used Terminal more i would definitely try out Cathode

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

a file in .vim/tmp that was 1.45 GB

I laughed

if i used terminal less i would try cathode

I figured you were down with iTerm2 or something

terminal.app all the way. iterm is too rough around the edges for an app i'm in all the time.

bbedit worksheets ftw

What my hard drive looks like right now (notes on the Flickr page)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8364/8270245119_8b62be4a2e.jpg

There's a Flickr group for hard drive visualizations: http://www.flickr.com/groups/28207780@N00/

omg at your notes

what do ppl recommend for managing a large library of pdf articles/papers/books/etc?

oh wait that was answered upthread already.

just started with mendeley. pretty impressed.

Doing fine with Zotero here. Maybe download both and try them each for a week before committing.

last night i dreamt i downloaded mendeley again

just got Plex and it is seriously great if you want to beam movie files to a roku or ipad.

elsevier is in talks to acquire mendeley. if they do, lots of people, myself included, will probably ditch it out of general principle. zotero's been recommended here, but someone also suggested docear, which i've downloaded but haven't tried yet.

i have no idea what you just said

^^^

I like to play flow because it's fun to connect the dots.

all the above are programs for managing libraries of pdfs, annotations, citations, etc. elsevier is a big academic publisher that lots of people are boycotting for being expensive, dishonest, and generally horrible.

it's like evernote for bibiography types