Can EndNote find pdfs on your harddrive and import them?
If you have papers scattered around your harddrive, what’s the most efficient way to get them into an EndNote file?
If you have X4 or later, you can use the Import PDF feature and select a parent folder where EndNote will recursively import PDFs in subfolders. You will likely get imported PDFs you didn’t want to import but you can always delete those.
As Leanne mentions, with X5 you can edit any imported PDF record where the bibliographic record isn’t found (i.e., filename is used as the title) and use the Find Reference Update to fill in the missing fields.
- Mathilda, the EndNote team