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This is still such an essential program for me... every year or two I look at alternatives but nothing is close.

But I now have so many folders in some of my databases that they "get in the way."...

I think this is what I want, but I can't quite figure it out. I'm looking for an immutable link to a record (i.e. a file). Right now, when I use "Copy Record Link" to link from another document I'm...

Excellent!

I was recently forced to switch to a Macbook Pro retina display, and EF stopped working soon after. I can start the program up fine, but the minute I try to open a library, or even create a new...

PDFpen is well integrated with EF. I use PDFpen Pro, but I find it tends to crash when doing OCR on documents over about 40 pages. Hence I often end up using Adobe Acrobat. Is there a way to write an...

Also I use "open in New window"

And it's often useful to have several EF windows open in the same database, arranged differently.

I'm seeing something that sounds similar, but it's not very frequent so I ignore it.
"From time to time," EF seems to slow down. Sometimes the fans on my mac get loud, and when I check CPU...

I'm a heavy user of EF, but I've been looking at supplemental programs to help with taking and organizing notes from my documents. It's probably easier to figure out how to adapt EF for this, than to...

I upgrade my hardware about every 2 years (MB pro) but whatever hardware I use, EF is lightning fast. It pre-indexes to make searches practically instant (but does it very unobtrusively).
Size of...

I use EF to manage everything - work, home, hobbies. Recently I've started buying books from Kindle. Is there any way to include Kindle and other ebook formatted documents? I have fooled with...

Mendeley is designed as a document manager for academics. It's not nearly as rich as EF, but it does bibliographies. It seems possible to load documents from EF into Mendeley, while keeping the...

I started with one library, for research documents. I'm now up to 4+

1. Research documents for all my research projects. This one is large and unwieldy - interesting material sometimes gets...

I'm trying to search for records that do NOT have a particular tag. There is no obvious way to do it. The documentation of "smart folders" says that you can nest conditions in the search, so I could...

I have the same experience. I leave EF open almost all the time, and it switches to Nvidia graphics. It's not a problem when I'm on AC power, but it decreases battery run time.

My solution so far...

Some previous discussions have pointed out that it's possible to create custom sort keys by putting the information in <Title> <From> or other fields. I'm using that method, but I only figured it out...

Comment from a long-time user of EF:
Because EF keeps all files in their original formats, including Safari web archive format, there is very little difficulty with lock-in. You will end up with a...

I endorse both comments. I find myself needing to do this fairly often. And, I'm not sure what the elegant solution is. Usually I want to skip a lot of ads and redundant material, for example. (I...

I use EF in place of the Finder as well. All the files related to the project go into its library. From there, I can organize, reorganize, and (most important) use.

Why not just use the Finder?...

Does anyone have experience using EagleFiler in conjunction with Papers? Papers is optimized for academic PDFs, which has a lot of value for me. But it does not handle any other file types, and...

Spaces has just been significantly enhanced with the "shift to a Space with open windows when shifting to an application" choice." (The enhancement is that you can turn this OFF, as I understand it -...

I have become a convert to using Growl with EF, but I still have issues sometimes knowing exactly what the F1 (capture) key has actually brought in. Depending on the site, what I see in Safari may or...

Although I am very happy with EF overall, and endorse it whenever I can, I am still trying to figure out whether it could be used as a "writing assistant." The goal is to have a system for managing...

Request: Searching is probably my biggest source of "user errors," which suggests to me that the UI can be improved. For me, the very fast search in EF is one of its key features.

One issue is...

Excellent job with the new version. At 1700 files in my largest library (mostly large pdfs) I was beginning to notice lags, but they are now gone. Furthermore, with the ability to drag and drop...

Is there an easy way to switch among libraries, when several are open? In the Window menu there are command keys for standard windows (eg Activity Viewer), but it's necessary to go to the menu to...