It has been over a year since the momentous Papers 2 release, and we have certainly been busy with many updates, new features, and bug fixes. Not to mention major updates made to Papers for iOS, and our latest addition to the Papers family: Papers for Windows. It has been a great journey, and we are excited to have major announcements for all versions of Papers, for Mac, iOS, and PC.

Ready for a close-up: Papers for iOS
Taking your articles on the road has also continued to become better with time. Papers for iOS has undergone several updates, and recently we buckled down to prepare Papers for the new iPad’s retina display. Text and images have never been this clear and crisp, and reading in Papers is better than ever. We have made strides in improving syncing between Papers on your Mac and iPad/iPhone, making sync faster and even more reliable.

Papers for iOS has seen a lot of development behind the scenes, but where you will have seen significant and very noticeable changes is in Papers2.  We are proud to release our second major update since we first introduced you to Papers2 last year.

Loaded with features: Papers 2.2
When you thought Papers couldn’t get any better, it did! Papers 2.2 is loaded with new and improved features. We have made so many additions and improvements that we cannot fit everything into one blog post. To get an idea of everything that is different in Papers 2.2, you can read the release notes here.

Better yet, download Papers 2.2 and experience it for yourself. We have brought back all features you were used to in Papers 1, and added new features as well. Now you can merge authors, periodicals, and articles. Batch editing articles speeds up your work-flow even more, and you can hide the cover page, or rotate pages within PDFs in a non-destructive manner.

Annotations (highlights and notes) are displayed in the notes section of the inspector. To make this even better, you can now navigate to your highlighted paragraphs or notes in the PDF by simply clicking on them in the inspector window. In addition, you can copy them as citations.

Support for footnotes in Microsoft Word was another major milestone in the Papers 2.2 feature set. While we have improved aspects like this one in Magic Manuscripts, we also made it easier for you to stay on top of recent publications in your field. Select any author or periodical, and Papers can display the latest articles published in the Authors and Periodicals sections respectively. If you happen to come across duplicate authors, periodicals, or articles, you can now effortlessly merge them into one record.

Growing the family: Papers for Windows 1.0
Last, but certainly not least, we are ready to remove the pre-release banner from the Papers for Windows page. For the past two years we have worked in secret to develop Papers for Windows and we were very excited to introduce it to the world on February 14th. The pre-release has not slowed down our development for Windows. We have worked very hard on addressing the minor issues that have come up since and we are now ready to officially release this new member of the Papers family. You can import your library from Papers2, making it even easier to take it with you to or from work.

As with all new additions to a family (of products), Papers for Windows will continue to grow and develop. New features will continue to be added, and very soon we hope to support sync with Papers for iOS.

In whichever way you like to use Papers, you can enjoy your library now more often and across more devices.

On behalf of all of us at Mekentosj, enjoy using Papers!

The Mekentosj Team

It’s the time of the year when we start thinking about stocking stuffers and silly reindeer sweaters. While whipping up some holiday cheer this month, consider giving a family member or friend a Papers2 license for Christmas. Papers2 compliments New Years resolutions to finally put some order in anyone’s research library.

A Papers2 serial can also be a gentle hint to your office-mate that it is time to start the new year with a more organized desk, especially if you are confronted with a scene like the one on the right.

There are several advantages to giving someone a Papers2 license as a gift this Christmas; aside from giving award winning software, you don’t need to wrap anything. When we send you your gift-serial we will include a digital postcard you can pass on to your friend, to make it ‘gift-like’.

Papers2 is the gift that keeps on giving, with a more organized research library, the power of annotations, and Magic Manuscripts and Citations. Now that you will both be using Papers, you can also collaborate more easily using Papers Livfe.

Papers recognizes over 85 different document types, which means you can take your library beyond your research life. Organize your recipes, music scores, or knitting patterns. Highlight and annotate your articles in multiple colors, and take your library mobile by syncing to iPad and iPhone. Insert citations into your manuscripts effortlessly, and change the citation style with the click of a button if you are submitting to different journal than anticipated. Papers gives you the freedom to focus on what matters to you, by everything else involved with organizing, reading, writing, and citing a whole lot easier than it has ever been.

If you are already using and loving Papers2, why not share the love and gift Papers as a Christmas present this year? You can do so by following this link.

We couldn’t be more happy with Matias Piipari joining Mekentosj Inc. to take the iOS versions of our apps to a whole new level.

Back in February last year we launched Papers for iPhone, allowing you to take your personal library of science wherever you go. We were already super excited with its success and the reactions from its users, but compared to that the recent launch of the iPad version has just blown us away. We worked really hard to get Papers for iPad ready at launch day, and to see how much users are loving the app is absolutely phenomenal. We’re sure that especially for those users it will be great to hear that Matias will take this momentum and do his best to bring our iOS apps to the next level! He already has a ton of ideas and we can’t wait to ship them to you in a next version of Papers for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Check out Matias’ profile page and wish him luck!