Integration Plugin for Apple's "Pages"
Hello,
Just downloaded Zotero and it looks great. I don't usually use Microsoft Word (because, honestly, it's not the best on Mac) and instead use Pages, Apple's version of Word. I would use and appreciate an integration plugin for Pages. Is this a possibility?
Cheers.
Just downloaded Zotero and it looks great. I don't usually use Microsoft Word (because, honestly, it's not the best on Mac) and instead use Pages, Apple's version of Word. I would use and appreciate an integration plugin for Pages. Is this a possibility?
Cheers.
There really is demand for a Zotero plug-in for Pages. At the medical school where I am librarian, most academics and students use Macs and iPads, so Pages is the ideal cross-platform word processor - but then, there is no integration of Zotero. LibreOffice/OpenOffice, on the other hand, offer Zotero integration, but there isn't even a release date for an iOS version of LO. This affects thousands of students here at our medical school alone, so it would definitely be worth developing something! By the way, I did speak to the last LO developers' conference, urging them to come up with an iOS version asap.
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At the same time the cloud-based sharing features in Zotero are much superior to what Endnote offers. Therefore, Zotero has become THE reference management package of choice for scholars collaborating remotely. So, iWork and Zotero would be a perfect match - but, sadly, there is still no Zotero plug-in for Pages. I'd be pleased if this was addressed, at last!
Note that, since the previous posts in this thread, we've added Google Docs support, so it's at least possible to collaborate with that, and there's support in the Zotero beta for transferring documents with active Zotero citations between Google Docs and Word/LibreOffice.
Could you perhaps elaborate a bit on
1. Why can't you use the endnote interface for pages? Especially if, as you indicate above, it's apple owned and not endnote owned.
2. By Now Zotero has enogh clout to get apple senior management on the phone and actually make an ask. Just saying until they do it you wont act seems like giving up. But you might need to lobby some for it.
here's what's changed that I think will help persuade apple to listen. It used to be that apple charged for pages and they also made it exclusive for macs. SO for both reasons apple would have preferred a pay-to-own software like Endnote. But now pages.app is free online. A non-free endnote manager and one that makes it hard to collaborate unless everyone owns a copy, defeats the purpose of apple putting it free on-line.
So now there's more logic to using zotero for apple-- it's better for collaboration and free-on-line wordprocessing model than endnote. It's better both for the user and for apple's new pages.app model. So they should want to hear from you now.
I hope you can make this true. Were it not for their alarmingly poor endnote management apple's pages is a superior tool to the overly complex MS office interface, the horrid balky libre office, and the unprofessional level of Google docs for manuscript preparation. But pages is missing the crucial collaborative reference manager so I can't use it professionally or personally.
2. The community probably holds more clout than the devs do -- get a change.org page up, prove to apple there's a market, and maybe they'll respond, who knows. But it's not encouraging that it only supports EndNote, and not for example Mendeley -- not that I have much love for Mendeley, but it has the might of Elsevier behind it, and Elsevier probably *could* get Apple on the phone and get a pitch in.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
Thanks for that! I've added my comments and shared the link. Hopefully we can get more people demanding apple "step up to the plate" and give the academic community what it needs, otherwise we're stuck relying on GDocs and Word.
I've submitted feedback to the Pages team, using the link in this chain (copied below).
https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
Now is a good time for others to put pressure on Apple.
In addition to a plug-in, separately, I will ask the Pages team to add TOC functionality for tables and figures. Pages is a great program for creatives, school kids and writing drafts. But Pages is unsuitable for academic or technical writing. Apple is leaving a large market on the table, in my opinion.