Happy zotero user for the last decade here.
Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
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Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#112I don't want a third party cloud-based solution and Zotero is not clear on where your data is by default. So I went with JabRef (http://www.jabref.org/)
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#113I don't want a third party cloud-based solution and Zotero is not clear on where your data is by default. So I went with JabRef ( http://www.jabref.org/ )
it says literally on the Zotero front page that all cloud functions are optional.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#114Zotero really need more advertisement. I prefer Zotero over Mendeley, but Mandaley seems to advertise much more to university.
I have just recently switched away from Mendeley because of an insanely user-hostile thing they've just done to lock-in their users. Mendeley has started encrypting users' bibliography files (from version 19), claiming variously that encryption is required by GDPR (?!?!) and/or that it improves security on a multiuser system. (Neither of these excuses holds water.) The keys are not available to the users whose data w…
Wow, that is seriously draconian. In my opinion it should be illegal if it isn’t, intentionally obscuring data storage to prevent marketplace competition.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#115I'd like to switch to Zotero, but I've been using Mendeley for a good 5 years, and built a decent workflow around it. I was wondering if anyone here took the leap and made the switch, and could perhaps point out some of the biggest differences between both tools?
I did, just recently; the biggest difference, to me, is that you have to configure synchronisation of PDFs yourself, if you don't want to use the Zotero web account thing to do it for you. I haven't tried the Zotero account file-syncing option, myself; I just use the Zotfile extension to make it copy the files to a Dropbox folder.
ETA: The firefox integration of Zotero is great, and something I missed from Mendeley. Also, I should say, before I switched to Zotero, I was a Mendeley user for about nine years, and did my PhD dissertation's bibliography using it. I'm quite confident Zotero would have been just as good.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#116I recently switched to Zotero from Papers, which is only for OS X and I needed to work on a Linux computer. After Papers was acquired by ReadCube, I was also concerned it would end up like Mendeley, which has a social network model that I don't particularly like.
On the whole, the transition was pretty effortless and I am pleased with Zotero (plus the Better BibTex plugin and webdav syncing). I like having the rss feeds inside the client. The firefox add-on is far superior to the Papers version. And finally, because it's an open source project with a reasonable ecosystem, many of the things I found annoying about Papers have been solved (like customizing which fields to exclude from a bibtex export).
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#117I use a little script [1] and a passive approach to quickly find a PDF I am looking for among a few thousands of academic PDF. The workflow (illustrated in the GIF [2]): - as I read new PDFs in the browser, the PDFs are passively downloaded typically in a Downloads/ folder. - This results in thousands in papers lying in Downloads/ or elsewhere. - The command p from the script [1] let me instantaneously fuzzy-search o…
This is terrific! Thanks for sharing. fzf is a wonderful piece of software.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#118I use a little script [1] and a passive approach to quickly find a PDF I am looking for among a few thousands of academic PDF. The workflow (illustrated in the GIF [2]): - as I read new PDFs in the browser, the PDFs are passively downloaded typically in a Downloads/ folder. - This results in thousands in papers lying in Downloads/ or elsewhere. - The command p from the script [1] let me instantaneously fuzzy-search o…
I love the passive nature of your workflow. I’ve always thought that, as soon as I had consumed (read, viewed, heard) some content (text, audio, video) it would be nice to have a “shadow copy” of it stored in a personal, private knowledgebase, with a simple keyword or more complex semantic search on top.
Basically, a personal search engine with a passively gathered corpus of my experienced content - maybe even filtered at times as in your case where you limited it to academic PDFs (to keep the knowledgebase focused). Kind of like an extension of our human memory.
Consume -> add as extension of knowledgebase -> recall.
Thank you for sharing your workflow - simple and ingenious!
Have you had any issues or thoughts for future enhancements? I can think of a number of other helpful things you could do with the corpus you’ve built, for yourself.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#119Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
Mendeley is supported by Elsevier, closed-source, and has premium-only features only for institutional users. Its publisher affiliation is important, when you see things like "Mendeley supports responsible sharing." Zotero is the full package, GPL, the only premium service is extra data for syncing with their server (not necessary if you only have one client). None of this Orwellian hinting about keeping researchers…
Yeah. Was just sharing it because it's what I used 5 years ago for my PhD. Worked well at the time and I found it useful. I don't think Elsevier owned it then. Got heavily down voted so I'll take the hint :)
Reading about Elsevier now and I understand the objection. Thanks.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#120For my university essays, I keep my research citations in Zotero and write in Markdown using Ulysses. Then when it is ready to submit, I'll use Raphael Kabo's technique [1] to export into Microsoft Word. It is a truly simple workflow to get perfect formating with little effort. [1] http://raphaelkabo.com/blog/posts/markdown-to-word
I second this workflow - thanks to Zotero and Ulysses I felt I was able to keep track of research for my thesis and easily restructure as I went along. My editor on the other hand was not so happy when I thought it was a good idea to use MS Word's built-in citation tool.. he made me pull them all out and add them back in manually. A good lesson to chat with your editor first before trying to be efficient.
Zotero's cross-platform plugins meant I could use any device for reading and not worry that if I followed important links I'd never find them again.