I’m starting to use EndNote X4 for the Mac and writing my first paper with it. The new Edit & Manage Citations interface is less usable than the old one on X3. What’s worse? The old one used to bring up citations where you left your cursor in the document. Naturally, that’s where you would expect to start editing citations, right? Well, the folks at Thompsons don’t think so. When you click on Edit Citations, you start out at the top of your document no matter where your cursor was when you clicked the command. Now, in a long document, that starts you searching down a long list of citations in the interface to get where you were before you clicked the command. This is really a step back in usability. Also, if for any reason you click an actual citation in a document you end up at the back of the document with all the references highlighted. What is the advantage of this new “feature”? Beats me!
As far as I can see, these are definitely not improvements. They made it much more difficult to finish this paper.