Hello Trala-la. I'm in a similar situation as yourself. I too struggled to find a good solution for organizing all the peer reviewed journals, articles, papers, etc., most of which were all in PDF. The solution I've found that works best for me, is as an open source free application being developed by the George Mason University called Zotero.
Here's a truncated feature list pulled directly from the Zotero.org website:
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Features
- Automatically capture citations
- Remotely back up and sync your library
- Store PDFs, images, and web pages
- Cite from within Word and OpenOffice
- Take rich-text notes in any language
- Wide variety of import/export options
- Free, open source, and extensible
- Collaborate with group librarie
- Organize with collections and tags
- Access your library from anywhere
- Automatically grab metadata for PDFs
- Use thousands of bibliographic styles
- Instantly search your PDFs and notes
- Advanced search and data mining tools
- Interface available in over 30 languages
- Recommendation engine and RSS feeds
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I've been using this application for about a year now, well the last two semesters anyways. Normally I would say, stay away from "beta" versions; but the beta builds of Zotero are feature rich and very very stable, in two semesters I've never had a single problem.
-Abisha
P.S. At this point in time, Zotero requires the firefox web browser. Firefox 3.5 was just released. Ciao.