Citekeys
(about researchr)
The concept of citekeys is really key to researchr, it's the glue that binds all the different applications together. A citekey is a unique key for each publication. These can be generated automatically by BibDesk, and I've chosen to use the formula last name of first author + year + first word of title (more than three letters), so for example the citation:
Scardamalia, M., & Bereiter, C. (2006). Knowledge building: Theory, pedagogy, and technology. In K. Sawyer (Ed.), (Tran.), The Cambridge handbook of the learning sciences (97–118). New York: Cambridge University Press.
gets the citekey scardamalia2006knowledge. By knowing this citekey, I can easily look up the full citation in BibDesk, or from a text file (to insert into another program). I know that the PDF is in the BibDesk folder as scardamalia2006knowledge.pdf. I know that the main DokuWiki page is at ref:scardamalia2006knowledge, and that other relevant pages are at
- clip:scardamalia2006knowledge
- kindle:scardamalia2006knowledge
- skimg:scardamalia2006knowledge
etc (see anatomy of a publication page).
List of articles in BibDesk
List of PDFs in Finder
Using citekeys to insert references in a DokuWiki page
Using citekeys to write a scholarly article in Scrivener
