Docear 1.0
17.10.2013 -
Docear is a free and open source software for managing academic literature. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The three most distinct features are:
- A single-section user-interface that allows the most comprehensive organization of your literature. With Docear, you can sort documents into categories; you can sort annotations (comments, bookmarks, and highlighted text from PDFs) into categories; you can sort annotations within PDFs; and you can view multiple annotations of multiple documents, in multiple categories - at once.
- A "literature suite concept" that combines several tools in a single application (pdf management, reference management, mind mapping, …). This allows you to draft your own papers, assignments, thesis, etc. directly in Docear and copy annotations and references from your collection directly into your draft.
- A recommender system that helps you to discover new literature: Docear recommends papers which are free, in full-text, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs. In addition, the Docear team offers a Microsoft Word Add-On to insert and format references directly in Microsoft Word. Users can select from more than 1.700 citation styles (APA, Harvard, LNCS, ACM, ...).
More information are available on www.docear.org in the latest Blog post.