Bookends vs Sente (it's not redundant)

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Also looking at Bookends, and got it with the MU bundle. It indeed looks a bit clunky and non-OSX like, I guess that’s because it is written in RealBasic (didn’t know that stll existed). There was some mention on their forum about moving to Cocoa (the native OS X programming language), but no timelines are given. But the price is a steal, so I’m fine wth it and it works with Scrivener.

And of course there is Mendelay (free), but have not yet tried that with Scrivener.

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I am new to Scrivener but I have been using Sente for a while. Its integration with Scrivener seems easy. I haven’t done much with the two together but i can see two possible workflows for what I do

  1. Write all in Scrivener, not worrying about refs
  2. Export to Pages
  3. Use Sente with Pages (I have done this for many years, works well for me)

or

  1. Write in Scrivener while using Sente in ‘cite as you write’ mode
  2. Export to Pages
  3. Scan document with Sente to format refs

There is also Sente for iPad. You can sync your library between devices, works well (although sometimes syncing mysteriously stops and needs to be restarted). Obviously you can’t use Sente with iPad text editors though. That’d be really a killer feature, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon

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I use the second workflow. However, Pages has a lame RTF engine, and cannot fully support many standard RTF features that Sente can generate. I export to RTF, then open with Word 2011, scan the Word document with Sente, make final clean-up edits, and print to paper or PDF or send off as Word or RTF format.

I have heard that Nisus has good RTF support, as well as Mellel too. If RTF support in Pages is important to you, file a feedback ticket here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html