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Can I use this completely isolated and offline, or does it require you to use it online or is otherwise severely limited if you don't? And it is easy to get it in this mode in a clear way? Their website doesn't make this clear if this is possible.
This software is available in 30+ langauge, but not in any Indian langauge. I wonder why developers Ignore translation of softwares in Indian Languages. If dev team is reading this, please contact me. I would translate this software in Hindi language. Update: I wonder why this comment got downvoted any without explaination. HN is not same, as it used to be.
Because this is a freeware program that is community-driven and you're blaming the developers when in reality it is the community that is failing to provide translations; largely the Indian language community, I might add.
Does it only store the metadata or does it have the power to store the full text, whether pdf or website or other document? Could you use this like a digital "commonplace book"?
It allows you to upload PDF or website snapshots, and by default an account is granted 300 MB free storage. They also have paid upgrades: 2 GB: $20/yr 6 GB: $60/yr Unlimited: $120/yr I've had the paid 2 GB plan for a while, I've got about 800 MB stored with them, and I've been very happy with the service. Between the Firefox connector, the automated PDF OCR metadata lookup, and the ability to pull in metadata from DO…
I abandoned Mendeley because it would not permit relative paths, and I have not looked back.
> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).
Citationsy works with Sci-Hub... just saying :) https://citationsy.com/blog/new-feature-citationsy-archives/
> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).
https://github.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/blob/master/engines...
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yeah so I just reinstalled Zotero and imported my Mendeley library. It does that, and it can actually look up metadata from pdfs. But: It can NOT update already existing entries from such a lookup. You have to delete the pdf and re-import. Why? No reason. It's this sort of really bad usability decision that makes Zotero just not very good imo.
I'm not sure what feature exactly you're missing, but are you aware of the "Rename file from parent metadata" option you get when right clicking on a PDF in the list? Perhaps that does what you need. If not, with Zotero you have a chance of getting a missing feature added. Not so with the closed-source Mendeley. Especially now they have started doing user-hostile lock-in stuff like gratuitously encrypting users' data…
Zotero can not update metadata for a PDF you already have in your library
Hence, adding an existing library means you have to do it manually for each pdf This is bad design, because the functionality exists, but it's implemented in a way that makes everything complicated for no reason at all.
Why disable the "lookup metadata" button for a pdf which is already in a library? WHYYYYY
I use Mendeley instead of Zotero. I really wanted to like Zotero, since I hate Elseveir like the next guy, but Zotero didn't have any of the look-up features and ability to quickly import my papers (thousands). In Mendeley, I can just throw a physical folder into a folder and it'll tag and categorize the PDFs mostly correctly. I mean it is nice that Zotero has an import browser plugin (which, btw, Mendeley does as we…
Mendeley is an Elsevier product? Might make a few academics come to a differing conclusion given Elsevier's reputation is one they've well and truly earned...
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I reinstalled Zotero just now, since it has a Mendeley importer now. What is the proper way to store PDFs that I annotate (say, using Okular in Linux) on Zotero with the ability to send them to other researchers and then update them? I don't mind paying money for cloud storage, but I gotta be able to work with the pdfs.
It's a bit of a pain, but you can store `~/.local/share/okular/docdata/` in version control or your favourite cloud storage provider, and then you'll get synchronised annotations. When I say a bit of a pain, I mean it - I switched to Mendeley with great sadness because its mobile application means I can read and annotate papers on my tablet and have it synchronised perfectly with my desktop. On a semi-related note: t…
What kind of annotations are that? I think GP refers to document annotations, which are stored in the PDF file itself.