Endnote. What's the consensus on this app with Scrivener?

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I also have a free licence for Endnote, but happily pay for Bookends. The feature set, writing workflow and indie developer support are worth it for me.

The wiki gives you some idea of the writing workflow for Scrivener + Endnote:

Using Scrivener with reference software (wiki)

Endnote (Clarivate Software) [macOS & Windows] Endnote is often available to academic users through a University site licences and is probably the most heavily used reference managers around. Endnote has a CWYW plugin that locks you into using Microsoft Word, but for Scrivener users Endnote also supports robust temporary citations. Set Endnote as your citation manger in Scrivener’s settings: [image] Inserting temporary citations To insert a temporary citation, you can use Insert > Bibliograp…

The good news is that temporary citation workflow should work for Scrivener compile to DOCX (Word plugin converts temp citations) or ODT (Endnote scans the doc, and Libreoffice is IMO way better than Word irrespective of the price). I suspect there may be more issues scanning a doc rather than using Word’s plugin, but I haven’t battle tested these myself.

My TLDR: for people who already compile to DOCX, Endnote is fine. For ODT/RTF you should be OK but I don’t know whether the feature set is matched between Word-only plugin and document scan. For Markdown workflows if you want to automate stuff, Endnote temp citation format is not ideal, and Bookends/Zotero/Jabref^[1] would be better tools.

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1. it would be possible to use Endnote to manage refs, and Jabref to use the BibTeX export for inserting temp refs more flexibly? ↩︎