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Papers is a cool product / company based in UK (London IIRC).

I love Papers but they've been ridiculously slow with retina support; I wouldn't mention it, except it's the easy things that still haven't been done, such as coloured circles for tags, while more complicated things (many icons/artwork etc.) were done ages ago.

They released a major new version (Papers 3) just under a year ago. One of those 'fresh start' kinda releases; a re-think of what a reference app should be like, and substantially different from Papers 2. I still haven't upgraded because it doesn't do much more than Papers 2 did, but if you're coming to the product for the first time, it really is a great release. Highly recommended. Definitely the best Mac client out there, and they have a good iOS app too, along with solid Dropbox syncing. (Haven't tried their Windows version.)

The Netherlands, I think.

I agree, Papers is great. I have been using it since the earliest version, both on my Mac and on my iPad. Neither has ever given me trouble.

Not sure about that [0]. Can someone clarify?

0: http://www.papersapp.com/about/

Ah, they've moved since they started. Their new offices are indeed in London, though if you look at the copyright notice on the footer of that page you'll see it has a Netherlands address. Their careers page [1] does say their new offices are in London.

When they started, the two founders were both still mainly post-docs at the Netherlands Cancer Institute [2], and that's what I remembered, reinforced by the copyright notice I mentioned above.

[1] http://www.papersapp.com/careers/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070213053257/http://mekentosj....

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