Sente manual

Lets get right to it. As an aside, you can always easily import references and bibliographies from Zotero or Endnote you have already made using Sente see below and the Sente manual for details. Quick Add can be accessed from the gear shaped item in the Sente toolbar. In this case the reference and metadata come through almost flawlessly, requiring only minor changes. In general, often Quick Add will work just fine for searching by author name or title. They will make sorting through your references and attachments by keyword fairly easy.

Sente also facilitates the creation of arbitrarily complex smart collections—you can also use Boolean logic—which can also be nested as deeply as desired to create hierarchical trees.

But you are already familiar with Smart Collections generally from the last post: statuses, ratings, Quick Tag Hierarchies, Author, Title, Year information etc. To make a Smart Collection, click on the gear menu in Sente. As you see in my example, Sente then groups automatically the references which match the keywords I search for. This can be very powerful over large libraries.

If you are familiar with this process, simply skip to the next section. Zotero functions best, I think, as a Firefox extension, and although there is a stand-alone Mac version, Sente imports from the Firefox Zotero.

Moreover as this brief demonstration will show, people love Zotero for its easy and magical import of bulk references, metadata, and attachments frequently, though not always, effective from Firefox. When you click on this button, particularly, it will prompt you to import the references you select and vacuum them into your library. However, it needs to be said— as I said have repeatedly—that the metadata will still often require manual correction. This is a reason that for me, personally, I prefer the one by one import method of Sente because it allows me to manually correct the metadata the first time as I add them.

But there are tradeoffs, I can also see the usefulness and benefits of bulk collection and why someone might not care about doing that the first time. So how to bring it into Sente? You should know that Sente is very versatile with imports of data and not just from Zotero. Sente supports import of a variety of other reference file formats as well. What we see is our author date framework, later we will index this structure to our Macintosh finder and spotlight, and DevonThink, but now just note that while Sente gives you a beautiful interface to experience your files and use them, it is also ordering them and keeping them safe as data not proprietarily locked in its system.

Remember the article I mentioned in the last post? To add this file, simply drag it from the folder into the Library. This makes that essential part of the workflow worthwhile.

Sente goes the rest of the way: simply highlight the title of the article, and right click which we Mac users means control click. You now get a choice of citation look up. Sente gives you two options, one is to automatically search for the selected text on Google Scholar, Google Books, Library of Congress, or WorldCat; the second option will allow you to copy the text and will then automatically open a search box in the selected catalog or database and let you manually paste it to search for it there.

I choose Google scholar for now:. On the right hand side, we see a reference box with targets. Upon clicking the target that matches, Sente pulls up the reference editor, which will allow us to edit the reference before adding it to the Library. Though it is almost always better to select Worldcat OCLC or an official academic library catalog for importing metadata, since Google is so pervasive I wanted to show that while it does work, it exemplifies some pitfalls that you should always look out for when adding metadata period.

Thou shalt always make sure your metadata is accurate the first time, and save hours and embarrassment later. Just as I have put so much emphasis on coherent filing, so too, we must put emphasis on precise metadata—not least because with every file you add, correct metadata will ensure you can actually simply just find things in your library. Depending on the database you import your information from, you will sometimes not populate your fields completely accurately.

If you do not check to make sure that it looks good the first time, and that the data is correct, you will have to spend hours later correcting it all when you go to make your official bibliography, and use the cite and scan functions. In other words, we still will need and this is often the case, because full automation is somewhat of an absurd idea , to exercise rational intelligence in populating the fields.

Sente does populate the fields correctly in so far as the data input to begin with in the originating database is correct. As a general rule, Worldcat and academic libraries, like Stanford and University of Wisconsin work quite well within Sente.

The point is that since you want to treat this like your real, legitimate library— because it is as real and legitimate as a paper library —you want the information to match up as much as possible the first time. Look at this example, does anything look off?

My advice is merely to be consistent. This is clearly not the pages, but is the volume data information for this database publication! Here I not only correct the data, but take the opportunity to add the DOI digital object identifier , and also check to make sure there is nothing out of place. If the item is an edited volume with one or more editors qua authors i. Once I fix things and click the edit button again, the updated citation will appear in the preview.

Everything seems in place. If you use Sente on a synchronized iPad, this will automatically synchronize. Stay tuned on the next post on Sente, and in the meantime get started with your new library! That's the signal that the socket's been established.

Update : danielsz has kindly provided a detailed example here. The Ring request's :session key is an immutable value, so how do you modify a session in response to an event? You won't be doing this often, but it can be handy e. Write any changes directly to your Ring SessionStore i.

You'll need the relevant user's session key, which you can find under your Ring request's :cookies key. This is the strategy the reference example takes. The absence of global state makes things like testing, and running multiple concurrent connections easy. It also makes integration with your component management easy. The only thing you may [1] want to do on component shutdown is stop any router loops that you've created to dispatch events to handlers.

Please use the project's GitHub issues page for all questions, ideas, etc. Pull requests welcome. See the project's GitHub contributors page for a list of contributors. Otherwise, you can reach me at Taoensso.

Happy hacking! Distributed under the EPL v1. Skip to content. Star 1. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Misc housekeeping. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. Feb 26, Oct 19,