We suggest upgrading to EndNote 20.1.0 for macOS Big Sur compatibility. EndNote 20: Updates EndNote X9 was not designed for Big Sur.

Click File > New to create a library, and you will see the application open in a window. However, you can see the app open in the dock at the bottom and the EndNote menu in the ribbon at the top. Even with your PDF’s and social media nonsense. EndNote 20.1.0 added Compatibility with macOS Big Sur. When you first open EndNote after downloading, no windows will open. You are a bunch of numpties and the sooner I can be rid of you the better. It’s a bit like a bank losing your money. When you have 4000+ references and are in at the end of finishing a book, and the latest update breaks things, or it takes 2 or 3 years to update things so they work without you having to fiddle things (literally: had to duplicate 32 bit version of Endnote 19 in order to get it to work on 64 bit version because the ‘update’ was still 32 bit…]. Unfortunately I have no choice but pay to use this beta level software and that has been the case for a very long time with regard to Apple first with the Pages 9.3 > 6 nonsense, and more recently, the 64 bit stuff. I’ve thrown £500 or so at Endnote for the past 15 years. I’m still amazed that for some bizarre reason italics don’t appear in a bibliography if the book or journal title is longer than a certain number of characters.

The bigger question, is why is EndNote so consistently and so continously s***e? It is the best part of a decade now since Endnote crumbled with the new version of Apple Pages.

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