Hi - is there a simple, elegant and quick way to add one or more chapters of a book to Paperpile?
Currently, I first create the bibliographic entry for the book. Then, for each chapter that I want to add I should be able to reference the book’s bibliographic entry rather than have to copy and paste its authors and titles every time.
Thanks,
Richard
Especially for that use case we have made a “Make a copy” item in the reference’s drop down menu. I have a screen shot attached for illustration:
Thanks Andreas - I can see that helps a bit, but isn’t as elegant as I would have liked.
If I make a copy, then I have another ‘Book’ object. If I change that to a type “Book chapter”, then the author / title details are copied into the respective ‘Chapter’ fields, not the ‘Book’ fields, which is incorrect. So for each chapter / section of the book that I create manually I have to cut & paste those fields across.
My use case is that I have (or can usually easily get) bibliographic details for the book which Paperpile can import. I then want to add in Chapter records, sometimes I have them in a format that Paperpile can import and sometimes I have to do it manually. Either way, it is a many-to-one relationship and it feels inefficient to have to manually copy / amend the details of the book many times.
There is also the issue that there is a lot of repeated data about the book in every Chapter record - e.g. title, editors, date, publisher, possibly URL - so should any of those details change it would be messy / impossible to correct them all, leading to inconsistent data.
As there is a clear relationship between a book and its chapters it should be possible to record that relationship in a straightforward way when creating records and for the relationship to be indicated and navigable by Paperpile.
Has this just become a feature request?
Thanks,
Richard
90% of the time I copy an item it is to add a book chapter, so I too would like to see this workflow improved!
