‘Paperpile‘ is the reference management system for the ‘gmail’ generation, the young researchers who have grown up sharing information and collaborating via the web. They access, add and edit data from whatever device is at hand, as long as it connects to the net. Google docs is for them what MS Word was for their parents. And Paperpile aims to be what Endnote was to the ‘Word’ generation.
Paperpile is a plug-in to the Chrome browser and seems to work seamlessly, from importing data, to organising them, to handling bibliographic annotations in a paper. Unfortunately, there is no tablet version yet, neither for iOS, nor for Android.
My own main concern is security: certainly, in a biomedical research context, I would not recommend cloud-based services that could be subject to US espionage. Instead, I’d go for a solution where your institution has full control over the servers. Other reference management tools, e.g.the Open Source ‘Zotero‘, allow you to save data either on a local disk, or on a server you trust. And once you have installed LibreOffice or OpenOffice, you will hardly look back to MS Office!