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ankle · 2008-07-28 09:38:10

In iTunes there's a pane that displays the album cover of the currently playing track; in Amarok there's a context pane that displays similar artists and album cover of the currently playing track; in Songbird developers can write extensions that display contextual information about the current track in a sidebar pane. It would be great to have a context pane in Papers - especially if the content could come from plug-ins - that would display information related to the current paper.

The context pane could display information like:
* A notice that the current paper has been retracted or corrected
* Links to citations of this paper in Scopus and Google Scholar
* Comments on this paper from the publisher's site
* Supplementary information for the current paper
* Related papers in my library
* Papers by the same authors in my library
etc

mek · 2008-08-05 08:35:46

Would be quite cool indeed actually. Basically you would think of a plugin that gets access to the metadata of the article currently displayed and would then be able to do what ever it wants to produce a view for in the inspector right? I had something similar in mind as well for "text analysis" plugins, plugins that could work when you select a piece of text from a PDF, for example a pubmed id, a contextual menu item could then popup to allow you to do things like going to links.
Now I guess the real question is, to what extent is it a problem if this would be a cocoa plugin API? That would be rather trivial to do,
it would be more difficult to make a python or javascript one...

ankle · 2008-08-05 08:52:23

That sounds good. Cocoa is a bit of an impediment, so if it can be scripted that would be easier. However, with some decent example code and documentation it could be feasible in Objective C.

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Context pane

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