Was the success of Papers, the award winning Apple software application, an added reason/motivation to develop Mendeley?
Neither Jan nor I are Mac users, so we hadn’t heard of Papers until sometime in 2007. At that point, we were already working on Mendeley almost full-time. I believe the first version of Papers was released in 2006, right? But yes, the good reviews for Papers were an added motivation once we discovered it. We also met Mek (its main developer) a couple of times last year – he’s a really nice guy. How has the general uptake been? Have the reviews been positive? The reception and the reviews have been very positive so far. I think yours was probably one of the first! Of course, many reviews have pointed out that it’s still beta software, so there have been a couple of bugs and stability issues, but by now we have a pretty stable version that researchers around the world use productively. For example, Dartmouth College’s library recently named us the “Best Bet for PDF Management”, and many researchers tell us they’ve replaced EndNote with Mendeley. Your software seems to aim at being both D
