The killer feature of zotero is, that it is customizeable with different plugins.
One very neat one is the integration with scihub. So you just paste in the DOI and it automaticly downloads the paper and adds all the metadata.
Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
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#42The problem with this (and Mendeley, Papers, Bibtex, etc.) is that each paper/thought is isolated. Roam Research ( http://roamresearch.com/ ) is my new jam.
What exactly is roam? The website tells me nothing. Zotero has folders and tags for organizing your thoughts how you like.
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#43I've used Mendeley Desktop for some time, which I believe is very similar in functionality (but proprietary, yes Elsevier!): https://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/ Furthermore I think http://www.docear.org/ deserves to be mentioned as another free open-source solution with some interesting mind-mapping functionality: http://www.docear.org/software/screenshots/
I reluctantly switched from Zotero to Mendeley as Mendeley has Android app that synchronises highlights, notes, read-progress etc. with the desktop version. It made reading papers on my tablet a delight.
If you were on the iPhone mac side, papers had a brilliant solution that was appealing
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#44I use Zotero for my research everyday, and I am a paying subscriber for their storage. I love it, and it is getting better. I recently discovered a new feature: I received a notification that one of the articles I had in my library had been retracted! That is pretty cool! The Word/Libre integration is solid.
When I saw Zotero at the top of HN, I suddenly wondered if they published a new tool. So I'm kind disappointed...but still love any attention they can get.
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#45I've used Mendeley Desktop for some time, which I believe is very similar in functionality (but proprietary, yes Elsevier!): https://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/ Furthermore I think http://www.docear.org/ deserves to be mentioned as another free open-source solution with some interesting mind-mapping functionality: http://www.docear.org/software/screenshots/
Is Mendeley free? I couldnt easily tell from the website. Also, which is better for non-academics, who just want to organize areas of interest/notes?
lastly -- how good is their mobile app?
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#46Anyone else here who only uses Jabref?
I've tried Mendeley, Zotero and Jabref and stuck with Jabref for my masters thesis. Couldn't recommend it enough, even though haven't given Zotero a serious try.
Synced bibtex and pdfs folder in linux and windows with dropbox, worked like a charm.The best part was configuring it based on this blog post (http://griechenzicken.blogspot.com/2011/10/configuring-jabre...) and making pdf links work on both machines. I wrote a blog post about why Jabref, but unfortunately it is in portuguese (https://gtpedrosa.github.io/blog/gerenciador-de-refer%C3%AAn...).
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#47A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606929
A little bit from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319975
Related from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977461
(Links are for the curious. Reposts are fine after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
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#48I had a quick look at Zotero's github but couldn't quite work out how they render their desktop UI - is this an electron-style app or a browser extension of some sort?
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#49The magic import is great, but I wish it understood links from more sources, including https://www.semanticscholar.org/
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#50The killer feature of zotero is, that it is customizeable with different plugins. One very neat one is the integration with scihub. So you just paste in the DOI and it automaticly downloads the paper and adds all the metadata.
Pretty sure I'm the author of the plugin you're talking about :)
I did a few updates recently, but I welcome any additions/PRs anyone wants to send.