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Bookends is an excellent bibliographic/research manager for macOS. This Alfred workflow curates 11 tools together in one interface to interact with Bookends and other apps. You can use Alfred keywords (be…) and/or bind your preferred key combination to trigger these directly. It has been designed for Alfred 3, and should keep itself up-to-date using OneUpdater. More Information… —<>— Download Directly… key: 📄: select some text in another app then trigger tool — 🗄: select reference(s) within Bookends then trigger tool — ⌨️: trigger tool and enter some text in Alfred beidsearch 📄 — Find a selected uniqueID in Bookends. For example, if you have a temporary citation like {Koffka, 1922, #6475} in your word-processor, double-click select the Bookends ID `6475`, then trigger this workflow and it will find the reference in Bookends for you. bebrowser 📄 — Search selected text in Bookends browser. For the Pubmed interface you should select this manually in the bookends browser. Because this uses `System Events`, sometimes the automatic paste into the search field fails, in which case you need to manually press ⌘V and ⌅ (enter) to trigger the search. berefsearch 📄 — Take some selected text like "(Doe et al., 2005)" citation, clean it up become "Doe 2005" and send it to Bookend's quick search. This is great because you can take a formatted ref in a text document and search for the first author/year, then quickly paste back (⌘Y for Scrivener) the Bookends style temporary citation in its place! bequickadd 📄 — Take a text selected DOI / PMID / ISBN or JSTOR identifier in any app and use Quick Add (feature added in Bookends 13.0.3+) to quickly add this reference to the database. betoopml 🗄 — Select multiple references within Bookends, then run this to create an OPML file which you can import into Scrivener or other OPML-aware tool. This will contain the abstract and notes which is very useful for research. It contains links back to the Bookends reference. You can configure the export path in the workflow variables (default Desktop/). bescopus 🗄 — Select a reference (with a DOI) in Bookends, then trigger this to search Scopus with the DOI. It will return an inline results list for the Scopus entry AND the Cited-by page. Select an entry to go to that page. It will also append these Scopus URLs in the Notes field for future reference. You can enter your Scopus API key in the workflow variables. betobibtex ⌨️ — You enter the name of a Bookends static/smart group name and this will create a BibTeX bibliography file for those particular groups. Very useful for Pandoc and/or LaTeX workflows. You can optionally generate JSON instead of BIB (faster if use pandoc-citeproc). You can configure the export path in the workflow variables (default Desktop/). becite ⌨️ — You enter author or editor name{s} along with an optional YEAR (case insensitive REGEX), and get an inline results list. You can [enter] to paste this as a temporary citation (or use: ⌘ pastes Pandoc style, ⌥ pastes MMD style, ⌃ pastes formatted ref, ⇧ opens ref in Bookends, [space] quicklooks attachment). betitle ⌨️ — You enter word{s} in the title or keyworkds , along with an optional YEAR (case insensitive REGEX), and get an inline results list. You can then paste this as a temporary citation (or use: ⌘ pastes Pandoc style, ⌥ pastes MMD style, ⌃ pastes formatted ref, ⇧ opens ref in Bookends, [space] quicklooks attachment). beall ⌨️ — You enter word in any field (case insensitive REGEX), and get an inline results list. You can then paste this as a temporary citation (or use: ⌘ pastes Pandoc style, ⌥ pastes MMD style, ⌃ pastes formatted ref, ⇧ opens ref in Bookends, [space] quicklooks attachment). bebib ⌨️ — You enter an author / editor name, and get an inline results list. You can [enter] to paste this as a formatted reference (or use: ⌘ pastes MMD style, ⌥ pastes Pandoc style). becite, betitle, beall and bebib were inspired by the tool by Eggman which I've rewritten in Ruby to be faster and more flexible. Changelog 1.2.9 — add a new workflow variable `tempCitationStyle` that sets the default temporary citation format for becite / betitle / beall. When unset it will be the Bookends standard, but you can set the variable to `Pandoc` / `MMD` / `LaTeX` to paste the citation in a different format (`[@key]` / `[#key]` / `\\cite[]{key}`). Also if the authors field is empty for a reference, we now try to use editor names instead in the Alfred results list. 1.2.8 — add phrase search, so for example 'cartesian theatre' 2016 will find papers that use that exact phrase rather than before where cartesian and theatre were searched irrespective of their location. 1.2.5 — becite/betitle/beall first AND last author names with initials are now shown, and if an attachment is present you can Quicklook it directly from Alfred without losing focus (press shift or ⌘Y)! 1.2.4 — becite/betitle/beall now show if a reference has an attachment, and for BE13 users use the new applescript events that are slightly more efficienct. 1.2.3 — small change to open the attachment when you use becite with [fn]. 1.2.2 — update the Scopus search tool to the newest API changes (https by default and httpAccept is required) 1.2.1 — rewrote the becite, bebib and betitle tools to perform a mutliple item search (i.e author1 + author2) and you can add an optional YEAR to refine the search. So for example [Zipser Lamme 1998] searches for references by authors (or editors) Zipser and Lamme published in 1998. Also optimised the search code (rewritten in Ruby) so now it takes much less time for large results sets. Because it is so much faster, add a new [beall] tool like betitle but to search in all database fields. For becite/betitle/beall you can now use SHIFT to open ref directly in Bookends. 1.1.0 — option to use RTF for becite/betitle temporary citations to enable bookends links copied into RTF comments/annotation aware apps like Scrivener. Added Workflow env variables citeUsesRTF to enable/disable this feature (default is disabled). Note it cannot match your font on paste of RTF, this is a limitation of RTF. 1.0.9 — V1.0.9 add new bequickadd Quick Add tool, needs BE 13.0.3+ 1.0.8 — allow author name OR editor name search for becite; better chinese author fix. 1.0.7 — try to get becite search for chinese authors to work. 1.0.6 — add betitle that searches within the reference title for a word. 1.0.5 — add ⌥ to bebib to paste pandoc footnote format. bebib formatted ref now pastes in the target app. Add environment variable to control the bibliography format for bebib.

Hi all, Does this exist already: An Alfred workflow that will simply autocomplete a typed word from a textfile list of special words? If not, does anyone have an idea of how to achieve this? I'm most comfortable in Python so I could probably start making this myself if somebody gave me some pointers. The use case is auto-completion of references stored in a .bib file when I write academic articles in Typora using pandoc-crossref for references, however I have to remember all references in my head since there is no autocompletion from linked .bib file. (I have asked for this before, however I was probably being too specific in my request, so now I'm making it more general just as an autocompletion system linked up to a file.)

Hi, I'm looking to build quite a simple workflow in Alfred that simply can suggest / autocomplete "citekeys" when I start typing, using a .bib file as it's basis. A .bib file is a BibTeX reference list, which is a plain text file containing a list of references formatted by the following scheme: @article{Salimans2017, abstract = {We explore the use of Evolution Strategies (ES), a class of black box optimization algorithms, as an alternative to popular MDP-based RL techniques such as Q-learning and Policy Gradients. Experiments on MuJoCo and Atari show that ES is a viable solution strategy that scales extremely well with the number of CPUs available: By using a novel communication strategy based on common random numbers, our ES implementation only needs to communicate scalars, making it possible to scale to over a thousand parallel workers. This allows us to solve 3D humanoid walking in 10 minutes and obtain competitive results on most Atari games after one hour of training. In addition, we highlight several advantages of ES as a black box optimization technique: it is invariant to action frequency and delayed rewards, tolerant of extremely long horizons, and does not need temporal discounting or value function approximation.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, arxivId = {1703.03864}, author = {Salimans, Tim and Ho, Jonathan and Chen, Xi and Sidor, Szymon and Sutskever, Ilya}, doi = {10.1.1.51.6328}, eprint = {1703.03864}, file = {:Users/gandalf/Library/Mobile Documents/com{\~{}}apple{\~{}}CloudDocs/-Sync/Mendeley/Salimans et al/Salimans et al. - 2017 - Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning.pdf:pdf}, isbn = {3-540-63746-X}, issn = {1744-4292}, pages = {1--13}, pmid = {27474269}, title = {{Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03864}, year = {2017} } This example above is just one entry, there are typically many such entries in a file. The important part is the very first value near the top which is the citekey, here "Salimans2017". What I want is that I start typing "Sali" in Alfred, and that it suggests "Salimans2017" and paste it to the current text cursor in format "[@Salimans2017]". As a bonus feature I'd be nice to be able to search for a title, then getting the citekey for the selected match. Does anyone have any good idea of how to construct this workflow? It basically boils down to making suggestions / autocompletion for a list of keywords stored in a plaintext file, and then pasting these keywords in a slightly reformatted way. I've put an example of a .bib file with two references here: https://gist.github.com/GandalfSaxe/4ca72ed004b832f4721e5274e2f1bb48

BibQuery Search BibDesk from Alfred Version: 1.0.1 Download from Packal BibQuery is essentially a visual clone of ZotQuery for the Mac app BibDesk, which is a citation manager for BibTeX. Users of BibDesk can now enjoy the clean search interface found in ZotQuery, which clear icons for publication type, and clean presentation of publication data. Users can also search their .bib databases with the same variety of queries: general (keywords: bib or b) titles (keywords: bib:t or bt) creators (keywords: bib:a or ba) in-keyword (keywords: bib:nk or bnk) in-group (keywords: bib:ng or bng) for keyword (keywords: bib:k or bk) for group (keywords: bib:g or bg) Also of note, BibQuery works without BibDesk being open and even functions if you have multiple .bib databases that BibDesk manages. In short, BibQuery brings all of your citations to you. Once you find the item you're looking for, BibQuery currently has 3 possible actions: you can open up BibDesk to that item (simply press return) you can copy a LaTeX cite command for that item (simply press control+return) you can open that item's PDF attachment, if it has one (simply press shift+return) For those of you interested, the source code can be found on my GitHub. Enjoy! stephen