We added some new features to SciPlore MindMapping Beta 14 that should help you a lot in managing your academic literature: Many users told us they would like not only to import bookmarks but comments and highlighted text from PDFs to their mind maps. Well, this is now possible :-). However, importing highlighted text is pretty… far from being perfect. Currently, it works only with PDFs edited with Skim. Anyway, importing comments works quite well. In addition, more BibTeX attributes are shown in the mind map (journal, year and authors in addition to bibtexkey and title). Also the BibTeX processing is more tolerant which makes it easier to use SciPlore MindMapping with manually created BibTeX files and other reference mangers than JabRef. And, we fixed several bugs. As a consequence all export formats should work now (e.g. HTML, XHTML, Java Applet, Flash, PNG, PDF, …). Here is the complete list of our changes:

  • New: Comments in PDFs and highlighted text can be imported
  • New: Show more BibTeX attributes in mind map (author, year, journal/conference)
  • New: Icons for most important actions in incoming folder window added
  • Improved: BibTeX processing is more tolerant
  • Improved: Incoming folder window remembers width
  • Fixed: Update reference keys did not work if one BibTeX key in BibTeX file was empty
  • Fixed: Some export formats did not work properly
  • Fixed: Status window lost focus on click on background
  • Fixed: If monitoring directory was non-existent, an exception occured
  • Fixed: Reference key was not assigned if file name had special chars

Download Beta 14 on Sourceforge. We have not linked the new files from SciPlore MindMapping’s homepage. Because we made many (internal) code changes, we would like to wait for your feedback: does everything work fine or are there any problems? Please let us know.