EndNote Avis 219

The interface is as clunky online as it is in the desktop app. Also, when it's so easy to just plug a DOI into a website and pull an article, or find similar articles using multiple free sources (e.g., research rabbit, elicit, google scholar) I do not find it worthwhile to use endnote for these purposes.

EndNote has been an outstanding bibliography software for me. I have been able to search and incorporate appropriate references as I am writing. Also, a lot of the original articles are readily available (PDF files). The learning curve of using EndNote has not been that steep, and it has made my writing experience almost effortless.

This is overall an excellent product. It really works.
However, some items that are used frequently are difficult to find in the menus. For example, unformatting citations is done often and it should be located up front as a large button that is easy to find. You seem to focus on correcting elements of the program that are rarely used and do not attend to usual operations challenges.

Great program to organize different research projects.

Doing great, slightly not user friendly though.

Recent upgrades were excellent. I had noticed a few setbacks that were corrected. For example, when I typed in a name and book and then went online to search, I had to type again. That was fixed. This saves me a lot of time. There are other features that I have not used yet. But I usually use the online search for adding sources. If I had a complaint, it would be the style sheets. If they could be more accurate, that would be nice. SBL style sheet is not up to speed. I appreciate the sheer number of these things being available, however. But when they are inaccurate, I have to go in and fix them myself. That is time consuming. But I love this product and have been using it for 25 years.

I really like to use EndNote. It's really easy when you work with it.
But EndNote should have some different offers for researchers at affordable prices.

It would be nice if existing users of the product were queried prior to revisions of the product to see whether the inclusion or removal of a feature is desired. For instance, on older versions of the program, there was a thumbnail of attachments for any particular entry. This made it easy to see the quality of the attachment or whether there were multiple versions of the attachment tied to a particular entry.

Another issue is the timeliness of corrections made during program updates. For example, I was one of the first people to download v21 of the program and immediately noted that you were no longer able to paste into the search window using mouse commands as was the case in prior versions (Cntl-V still works.) I immediately reported the issue to technical support. The update to version 21 was just released and the problem still exists. This should have been a straightforward fix, yet it was ignored.

This software has been fantastic help in updating my 1000 page textbook. However I found a minor glitch in 2021 version whereby i cannot directly copy and past DOIs as in 2020 version and instead copy then use two key to paste. It has been especially useful in using Google search then locating a reference then directly downloading the “cite” function. I highly recommend it for anyone in academics

It can be clunky and frustrating sometimes but it works.

EndNote is easy to use! Very helpful in organizing my research.

With EndNote, I no longer need to carry printed papers with me anywhere anymore: all is there in the my personal library: authors, dates, summaries and full texts. Attaching an old paper to a reference in the library is a breeze. And creating groups, add papers to them are all the features that make it easy the retrieval of needed information at any time, online or offline. The flexibility of switching from one bibliography style to another is alone a reason for having EndNote as a tool in the toolbox for any technical writer. Online search from public databases using keywords, downloading the free papers, and ranging them in designated groups are straightforward and very helpful. EndNote has become an indispensable tool for me and for my work for more than 30 years.

I upgraded from several EN versions back. It was a little awkward to get used to EN21, but now that I have, I can appreciate some new features such as its remarkable ability to grab online PDFs without going through the usual hassles. There are a couple of older features that I miss, though: I used to be able to see a quick preview of a new reference in my chosen output format on-screen, without having to write it to an output file. (Maybe I just haven't figured out how to do that yet.) Also, on the Edit page the top toolbar is missing the Greek symbol conversion that used to be there. Also, it would be really helpful to give us a couple of highlight colors like yellow and red in that toolbar!

I've used EndNote for many years and it continues to be my friend as I do technical writing.

The tech that I had was VERY patient with me and my questions. He helped me resolve all my problems.

I like the new view and it appears easier to use and integrate.

Had great support for a problem related to synchronizing my files. The customer care advisor was patient and pursued the problem in a very timely manner.

Easy to use product and competent and available technical support staff.