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The HyperCard stack Reference Maker for Apple Macintosh helps you to keep track of the books and article that you have in your private library or on your hard disk. You can also store the titles of everything you have ever read, together with a summary. If you want to do it thoroughly,updating your database might take some time in the beginning, but Reference Makerhas a lot of features that will save you time, later.
Here, you see a screenshot of a books & papers card from Reference Maker. You see the Reference menu, with search an sort features, commands to show picture and summary windows, and options to select and unselect cards for printing and exporting.
The palette is a colourised version of the standard HyperCard Navigator palette. On top of the card you see tabs to select the most recently visited card of the currently not selected category. Partly behind the stack window, there is a window to store and edit a summary of the publication.
Besides book titles and author's name, Reference Maker contains entries for ISBN and ISSN codes, the location on your hard disk, the type of publication and the category it belong to, for example scientific or popular. It also contains the possibility to build a list of journals from which titles can be selected when you enter a new article.
Below, you see the books & papers card itself. You can mark the card with a checkbox, select an on-line document, enter additional remarks that may be included in the reference list for your own articles. The availablity of a summary is indicated on the card.
Reference Maker can export the entire database or selected titles to a list of references in several formats, such as RTF, HTML, TEXT, tab delimited, and a special Reference Maker database format that might come in handy with later versions.
The journals card is only slightly different. For example, there is a feature that allows you to build your own list of journals. Rather than typing repeatedly the journal title for every article in the database, you choose the title from a menu that is hidden under the arrow button.
Reference Maker is available for download here. After downloading, you will find a file refmaker.hqx on your hard disk that can me decoded with StuffIt Expander, which is available from Aladdin Systems. There is some old documentation included, for which you need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. You can download this application from Adobe's website. You may also download the documentation here.
The current version of Reference Maker is 1.0 beta 5 release 1, 1.0b5.1 for short. Soon, you will find a new version here.
Please, send your comments to Mark Schonewille the author of this HyperCard stack. For more information, visit the homepage of the author.
Last update: 02-06-2005