Endnote X6 has arrived on my desktop. I confess, I was not
expecting very much additional functionality from it (it was flagged by Adept,
at least, as more of a tidy up than a redesign).
What it does have, however, is a redesigned user interface,
presumably to make it more Windows 7 in style.
As you can see, the preview pane that used to be at the
bottom of the window has gone, replaced by a tabbed pane on the right which
shows the selected reference, its preview in a bibliography and the PDF attachment
(if any).
The search screen is now hidden and can be reached from the
show search button on the icons menu.
The rest of the user interface seems to be fairly familiar,
but there are two new features which might be useful.
The first is a button to mark items as read or unread. Imports
into the library are automatically marked as unread so consistent use of this
feature might help you to stop building up mountains of unread texts in your
library.
The second is a rating system, based around the inevitable
stars. I would guess that this might be useful if you are sharing a library
with other people, or just for your own reflection on whether the paper was
good or bad. However, I think that it might be less useful than the read/unread
marker.
