Your personal librarian has arrived.
Just in time.
Just in time.
Finding, downloading and organizing PDF files
has never been easier.
has never been easier.
Sente does not stop with managing your reference data.
It also handles your existing collection of PDF files
and enables you find and obtain new PDFs with an ease you never thought possible.
When it is this easy to build and maintain your own personal research library,
you might need to get a larger hard drive.
"With version 5, Sente has replaced EndNote as my main literature database.
Kudos to you guys."
Derya Unutmaz, M.D.
New York University
School of Medicine
New York University
School of Medicine
Multiple Attachments per Reference
Each reference in Sente can have many attachments, so you are not limited to just a PDF.
One-Step Web Archives
Easily create a local archive of any web page in the Links view,
so you will have a permanent copy of exactly what the web page looked like when you visited it.
Custom Auto-Link Templates
Create your own link templates for Autolinks in Sente preferences.
Organize Your Existing PDFs
Sente can start with the PDF files you already have on your computer.
Just use the File > Import command (or drag and drop them onto a collection)
and Sente will go to work.
Sente will look for identifiers inside in the PDF that it can use
to look up the citation details automatically in resources such as
Google Scholar, the Library of Congress and PubMed.
When Sente cannot find these identifiers,
it shows you the PDF and lets you highlight information such as the article title,
and then Sente will use this information to find the correct citation.
When Sente is finished, you will have a reference in Sente with the PDF attached,
and the PDF will have been renamed and filed away according to your preferences.
Find New PDFs
With your existing PDFs under control,
you will want to find the PDFs for new references as they get added to your library.
The easiest way to do this is with Sente's Links View.
When you select any reference in Sente,
the Links view will show you both any files that you have already attached to the reference,
as well as any web links that it can generate using data found in the reference.
In the case of a journal article with a DOI,
Sente can display a link directly to the publisher's site for that reference.
Sente makes obtaining the PDF as easy as possible.
Whenever you click on a link to a PDF file on any of these sites,
Sente can automatically download the PDF, rename it and file it according to your preferences,
and then display the file to you right within the Links view.
Filing
When you attach a PDF (or any other type of file) to a reference,
Sente can automatically rename the file based on information in the reference,
and file in on your computer using a filing system of your choosing.
For example, you might like to organize your PDFs in folders first by year,
and then in subfolders by journal name.
And then you might like to name the files by the first author's last name, or the title of the article.
Whatever you choose, you can set this up in Sente preferences.
Then, whenever you attach a file to a reference, Sente will automatically file it appropriately.
You can also change your mind at any time and Sente can
automatically rename and refile all of your existing attachments for you.
Without Sente, you would probably not ever make such a change, no matter how much you wanted to.