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I 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.
For 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'm slowly realising that my colleagues for whom this "works" are never going to change. Our shared folders are littered with "Copy of FINAL final + comments 2.7.18-my-copy.docx.docx". It doesn't matter how slick my git + markdown + pandoc workflow is when conversations go like this:
"Just use track changes."
"But..."
"JUST USE TRACK CHANGES."
I 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 fe…
Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
5 years and 7464 references later Zotero has become an integral part of my workflow. The combination of Zotero and the custom renaming of Zotfile lets me store all my pdfs in Dropbox, but sync all database by Zotero such that I can add references at work and have them waiting for me on my PC at home. I abandoned Mendeley because it would not permit relative paths, and I have not looked back.
I loved zotfile for its feature which enable user to highlight/comment articles then import the text in notes related to article.
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I loved zotfile for its feature which enable user to highlight/comment articles then import the text in notes related to article.
Our team switched from a custom solution to Mendeley last year instead of Zotero because Mendeley lets you highlight and add notes in the PDF, which gets shared among the whole team with those markups. Zotero didn't have that. Otherwise we would have went with Zotero.
The one downside of this approach is that multiple people can't modify the same PDF at the same time. The upside is that you can use whatever PDF tools you want and annotations remain accessible in the file even if you stop using Zotero, which goes with our philosophy of leaving people in control of their own data. (Mendeley stores annotations and highlights in its own encrypted database, and you can't even export PDFs with annotations in batch. If you want to get a PDF with your annotations out of Mendeley, you have to do it one file at a time.)
Disclosure: Zotero developer
For 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
Genuine question: what do you do with Word docs sent back to you as email attachments with track changes and embedded comments? I'm slowly realising that my colleagues for whom this "works" are never going to change. Our shared folders are littered with "Copy of FINAL final + comments 2.7.18-my-copy.docx.docx". It doesn't matter how slick my git + markdown + pandoc workflow is when conversations go like this: "Just u…
Major differences seem to include cloud based Zotero's advantages for sharing, collaborating, and Citavi's better fine-grained document quote/cite tools.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Citavi-...
I'm slightly confused what that means, is that just meta data in the pdf file, that isn't visually visible?
For a while I've wanted to make something that can extract the title, authors, and bibliography visually from a pdf. Is that what zotero can do also?